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Written by Zane Grey - Audio book narrated by Michael Prichard - Unabridged Fiction - 11 COMPACT DISCS - 11 hours

Publisher, Tantor Media (June 2004)

“Somewhere northward in the broken fastnesses lay hidden a valley walled in from the world. Would they be there, those lost fugitives whose story had thrilled him? After twelve years would she be alive, a child grown to womanhood in the solitude of a beautiful canyon? Incredible! Yet he believed his friend's story and he indeed knew how strange and tragic life was. He fancied he heard her voice on the sweeping wind. She called to him, haunted him. He admitted the improbability of her existence, but lost nothing of the persistent intangible hope that drove him.”

A beautiful rainbow filled with mystery and promise prompts John Shefford's singular journey beyond the Utah upland into a wild canyon laden with a haunting secret. But to reach it, Shefford has to go through a Mormon village, where trespassing means death, and confront a treacherous outlaw who blocks the way.

“This romance is an independent story, yet readers of Riders of the Purple Sage will find in it an answer to a question often asked.” --Zane Grey, 1915

About the Author: The prolific American writer, Zane Grey was the pioneer of the new, Western literary genre. Grey produced well over one hundred books. In his works, he presented the West as a moral battleground, where his characters were either destroyed or redeemed. His semi-outlaw heroes were his most enduring creation. He sold some 17 million books during his lifetime. An estimated 100 Hollywood Western films have been based on his stories.

Born with the name Pearl Grey in Zanesville, Ohio in 1872, he was the son of a farmer and part time preacher. His mother was a second generation Danish Quaker. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in dentistry in 1896, and practiced in New York City until 1904. That year Grey wrote and self published his first book, Betty Zane, after it was turned down by several publishers. The colorful frontier story was based on his mother's journal and eventually became a critical success. He married Lina Elise Roth who encouraged him to become a full time professional writer.

In 1908 Grey made a journey to the West with Colonel C.J. 'Buffalo' Jones, who told him tales of adventure on the plains. The trip was a turning point in Grey's career. In 1912, Harpers published Riders of the Purple Sage. It sold two million copies and was filmed three times. Grey used his formula where a mysterious outlaw fights to protect the innocent and the good, in many novels. In 1918 he moved to Altadena California, and lived there for the rest of his life. Zane Grey died on October 23, 1939.

About the Performer: Michael Prichard has played several thousand characters during his career. While he has been seen performing over 100 of them in theater and film, Michael is primarily heard - having recorded over 430 full-length books. During his career as a one-man repertory company, he's recorded many series with running characters, including the complete Travis McGee adventures by John D. MacDonald, the complete Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout, the Dirk Pitt adventures by Clive Cussler and more than a dozen other series by masters of suspense ranging from Georges Simenon and Dashiell Hammett to Robert B. Parker and Tom Clancy -- as well as series by greats like Mark Twain, Herman Wouk, John Cheever, and John Updike. He's won AudioFile magazine's Earphones Awards for three of his non-fiction recordings. SmartMoney Magazine named him one of the Top Ten Golden Voices, an asset he developed as a boy singing at the wheel of a tractor on his family's farm. Jesuits taught him Latin, Greek, and French. He earned an M.F.A. in theatre from the University of Southern California. In addition to narrating, he works at the Pasadena Playhouse.