Sarah Sawyer

Body art, including tattooing and body piercing, is ubiquitous today, but many teens do not understand what is involved in these two forms of body modification. While not condoning the practices, this expert-reviewed book offers informed answers to the mo

If thou knewest the gift of God…thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water… There comes a time when one questions every decision they've made in life. That moment is here for Doctor Rebekah LaRoche when she is taken captive by her nemesis, the bandit Sancho Guerra, and spirited across the desert to a hidden village in Mexico. With no hope of rescue, Rebekah must earn a place among the families of bandits as a medical...

From an award-winning author and Choctaw storyteller comes a riveting tale set in turn-of-the-century Indian Territory. Who would show up for their own execution? It's 1892, Indian Territory. A war is brewing in the Choctaw Nation as two political parties fight out issues of old and new ways. Caught in the middle is eighteen-year-old Ruth Ann Teller, a Choctaw who doesn't want to see her family killed. In a small but booming pre-statehood town, her...

"He's dead." When Doctor Rebekah LaRoche makes the pronouncement in Senator Jeffrey Harris' office, her world is rocked by the death-and the note found beside the deceased. It's addressed to her personally: an ominous warning that those in her life always end up worse off because of her. While the Donavan Brothers Circus rolls into Centennial Ridge, Wyoming, a murderous stalker tracks Rebekah's every move and targets those she loves. Death and near-death...

"We're looking for Doc Beck.""I'm Doctor Rebekah LaRoche.""But you're a woman." Traveling the West as a female physician, 34-year-old Doctor Rebekah LaRoche is no stranger to difficulties. But on her way to New Mexico Territory, an unexpected stay in Amarillo, Texas, leads to confrontation with the Baxter clan – four brothers bred for conflict – and finds Rebekah in deep trouble. Cattle rancher Clem Baxter's private war over grazing rights in...

A feud dating back to the Civil War threatens Doc Beck's future… Doctor Rebekah LaRoche is finally home in Wyoming-but trouble waits for her in spades, and a slim chance to return to the Omaha Indian Reservation grows slimmer when she's drawn into a feud between two powerful ranchers. Glenn Butler and Dean Wallace hate each other's guts and have pitted their offspring against each other since birth. But it's Butler's daughter, Lilly, and her disgrace...

"Sometimes trail dust is thicker than blood." There's nothing Just Jimmy wants more than to fit in with his new outfit on the McKinnon Ranch, and it's what Doctor Rebekah LaRoche needs, too-another piece in the puzzle of her returning to the Omaha Indian Reservation. But jealousy, a pressing contract with the U.S. Calvary, and soap soup quickly put Jimmy at odds with Steve Bowers, the new head wrangler. Still shy of the horses they need and facing...

"You swing just as high for killing one as you do three." Called on to perform an autopsy for a murder case, Doctor Rebekah LaRoche and Just Jimmy find themselves as unlikely detectives in a town with too many secrets. One of the bandits who held the old mission-and Rebekah-hostage is accused of murdering Ruby Palmer, a young woman who took some of those secrets with her in death. When Rebekah discovers the truth about Ruby's death during the autopsy,...

Examines the history and culture of body art, what is involved in tattooing and body piercing, and the possible health risks.