M M Justus: 9 books

After a childhood of summers spent in the back seat of a car, and four months before the turn of the millenium, M.M. Justus decided to follow in the footsteps of her heroes John Steinbeck and William Least-Heat Moon, not to mention Bill Bryson, and drive alone across America’s backroads for three...

Ranger Will McManis patrols an empty Upper Geyser Basin in Yellowstone, V-J day and his mother's death on his mind. His grandson, five-year-old Chuck, will leave soon, too, off to faraway Denver, a brand-new life, leaving a huge hole. Will thinks he knows all kinds of change. But out among the geysers with Chuck, something happens to dwarf it all, and nothing will ever be the same again.

Lost in TimeThe year is 1910, and unemployed teacher Claudia Ogden is at the end of her rope. With nowhere to go and no one to rely on, she has no future at all. On the rumor of a job in a small, remote town called Conconully, she decides to bet what’s left of her life on it.But when...

All bets are offTara Hillerman has lived in tiny, remote Campbell, Montana, all of her life, except for the college years she'd like to forget. Back where she belongs, she won't leave again, even on a bet. Dr. Tim Swanson only came home from Seattle to talk his ailing father into...

Time is not what it appears to be.State trooper Daniel Reilly never thought he’d wind up in his stepmother’s favorite movie. Chasing a suspected drunk driver through Washington’s desolate Okanogan Highlands is part of his job, but crashing his cruiser and waking up in a ghost town definitely...

Stowaway. When Karin Myre, a Norwegian seamstress's assistant, catches the excitement of the Klondike Gold Rush, she decides to head north, but how? Impulsively, she sneaks on board one of the dozens of ships in Seattle's harbor only to find herself trapped in the cargo hold with a host of second...

In 1959, 20-year-old college dropout Chuck McManis is strolling the geyser boardwalks in Yellowstone National Park when an earthquake plunges him more than eighty years back in time, into the middle of an Indian war. And into his own past – to become the great-grandfather he’d idolized since he...

James McManis knows about being left behind. After his wife died, he clung to his son as hard as he could. But the harder he holds on, the more Chuck fights. Until one day the boy slips away and vanishes utterly. When James discovers what really happened it turns his whole world upside down. He needs to find out. But what if the knowledge he gains proves everything he thought real a lie?

No good deed goes unpunished. In a place outside of time, the magic keeping a ghost town alive is beginning to alter. Bringing in two newcomers has caused a welcome renewal of the town's life. But every action has a reaction, and the consequences are far beyond what Conconully's accidental magician ever expected.