A Jacketed SoftCoverTM
Book You Can Sink Your Mind Into
Click on cover to find out about free Study Guides
web
site special $15.96 plus free book rate shipping in the U.S. Use your
credit card or PayPal account when you checkout. Bookstores, please phone or
email for large order discount.
THE HAUNTED HOGAN
by Leo Du Lac
ISBN 0-9718758-3-9 (299 pages) $19.95
Jacket Blurb:
The bleak simple life of Wassaja Aimes, a migrant Osage
Indian who routinely drinks and gambles his money away, is about to change when
he inherits a fortune and secretly marries the beautiful white girl of his
dreams. He goes from being an outcast, even among his Navajo friends, to being
sought after and propositioned by everyone who wants a piece of the
action.
To make matters worse, he discovers someone is hiding bales
of marijuana in the abandoned hogan on his property--a situation he can't do
anything about because his Navajo friends believe the premature death of one of
the hogan's former inhabitants has released evil spirits that remain inside the
hogan as long as no one disturbs it.
Wassaja, full of dreams and ideas, and his secret bride,
Cynthia Page, have an arrangement that allows her to use his money to aid the
underprivileged children among the Navajos. In return he is only allowed to date
her.
Excerpt:
The bedroom where Wassaja slept had been plastered at one
time. But as the years passed, with intermittent rains and the flapping tar
paper, a slow leak had developed in the roof. Each successive rain soaked the
wood lath, causing them to swell, then shrink again as they dried. The plaster
became loose and separated from the wood spacing. Finally, a bubble of loose
material developed on the ceiling directly over Wassaja's bed. The bubble grew
larger with time and infrequent rains.
It was twilight when the bulging plaster landed on Wassaja's
stomach with a ripe thud. He was out of bed instantly ready to defend himself
against the spirits that occupied the abandoned hogan. Then he looked up and saw
the grid of bare lath grinning down at him and felt the grit between his teeth.
Was that some kind of a sign?
Author Biography:
Leo DuLac started writing his first novel in high school. In college
he took several courses in writing and was determined to become a writer. That
was well and good, but he had to support a family and did that best in the
construction business. When his family (a wife, two daughters and three sons) was taken care of financially, he started writing,
but only sold articles pertaining to the construction business. Finally he wrote
a garden column for a newspaper for six years and sold a book, Gardening in
the Drylands. Then, after restoring fire damaged buildings for four years,
he decided a book was needed on fireproof construction. He researched European
construction methods where fireproof building is a matter of course and fire damage is
one-tenth that of the United States. Fireproof Homebuilding immediately
sold to McGraw-Hill. Leo is now working on the paperback version, Fireproof
Construction, more affordable to the general public.
Leo studied motion picture writing at UCLA and has written several screenplays. He also wrote The Leather Dollar about the first American in Los Angeles, shanghaied in Boston, brought to the West coast, captured and as a prisoner, he built the Plaza church in downtown Los Angeles, now a national monument.
Purchase The Haunted Hogan by Leo Du Lac for $15.96 and get free book
rate shipping in the U.S.
Use your credit card or PayPal account when you checkout. Bookstores, please
phone or email for large order discount.