Ron Rash’s SERENA at Ecco/Harper Collins — Ron Rash’s SERENA in which a lumber baron and his new bride arrive in the North Carolina mountains of 1929 and kill or vanquish anyone who comes in the way of their ruthless ambition to Ecco’s Lee Boudreaux in a very nice deal by agent Marly Rusoff of Marly Rusoff Literary Agency. (NA)