MacDonald Harris es el seudónimo bajo el cual Donald Heiney publicó su ficción. Su temprana fascinación por el mar, que comenzó a los doce años, impregna su obra, dándole un sabor náutico único. La prosa de Heiney se caracteriza por una profunda exploración de la psique humana y las complejidades de las relaciones. A través de sus personajes, se adentra en demonios internos y complejidades morales, a menudo ambientados en escenarios evocadores o desafiantes que reflejan sus propias experiencias. Su estilo narrativo es pulido y rico intelectualmente.
Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a man badly disfigured in battle as her missing husband. What happens when he decides to go along with her mistake? Mortal Leap is both adventure story and metaphysical novel.
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Strange Toys is a stunningly original and penetrating novel blending the real and unreal, the fantastic and the mundane, in a story of love, power, and the occult that carries one young woman on a difficult and dangerous journey. Pet is her name. At nine, she is struggling to protect her family from the horrors predicted in her strange older sister's book of secrets horrors that indeed come true. At sixteen, Pet is hunting down her older sister to wreak vengeance or something else. At thirty, Pet attains strength and power enough to protect her from the present but not from her sister's raging past. With humor, insight, compassion, and unrelenting suspense, Patricia Geary's Strange Toys takes the reader on parallel tours into the world of the supernatural and into the life of a young woman struggling to make peace with the known and unknown.