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After her divorce, Mori Jordan returns to her home town with her seven-year-old daughter and buys an interest in a horse ranch, the dream of her life. She wants to make her business a success. No more men for her. Mark Larson blames himself for the loss of his son and wife in a car accident. Out of fear, he remains single, but when he brings his new mare to Mori for training, sparks fly between them. Can they overcome their past experiences and build new lives? |
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Most of my ideas for books come from incidents I've read about. The location in SECRET TO HOLD does exist and is a national historic site. Unfortunately, the ranch was purchased by an oil company and I've been told they are not keeping the house up. |
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Secret to Hold is a western historical romance set in Wyoming Territory in 1886.
Jessica Bradley accepts a teaching position on a remote sheep ranch to escape her unfortunate past that threatens to destroy her. Before she reaches the ranch, she is advised to return to New York. The owner of the ranch, Cameron McPherson, is suspected of murdering the previous teacher. Without money to buy a return ticket, she continues her journey and is warned a second time to stay away from the ranch. At the ranch, she learns secrets she should not know that threaten her safety. The owner is accused of an unthinkable crime, but as Jessica becomes acquainted with Cameron, she doubts the rumors she hears and decides to find out the truth. In the process, she faces hatred and prejudice that threatens to destroy the people she has come to love.
Jessica Bradley accepts a teaching position on a remote sheep ranch to escape her unfortunate past that threatens to destroy her. Before she reaches the ranch, she is advised to return to New York. The owner of the ranch, Cameron McPherson, is suspected of murdering the previous teacher. Without money to buy a return ticket, she continues her journey and is warned a second time to stay away from the ranch. At the ranch, she learns secrets she should not know that threaten her safety. The owner is accused of an unthinkable crime, but as Jessica becomes acquainted with Cameron, she doubts the rumors she hears and decides to find out the truth. In the process, she faces hatred and prejudice that threatens to destroy the people she has come to love.
Four women on a backpacking trip are attacked by four escaped convicts on the first night of their trip. The convicts threaten them knowing the women can identify them. The women must escape their tormentors and out run them to safety. It means changing their plans of following a trail to the trailhead and taking an alternate route over a high mountain pass in the hope the men will take the trail. Unfortunately, the convicts realize they are going to the pass and follow them. Weather, land slides, and hazardous terrain become an added threat to the women. While they struggled to survive, they must come to terms with one another and their individual demons. Is their will to survive strong enough to out run the convicts?
Abandoned by her husband who lost her mining claim to a desperado, Susan wants to hunt for Three Fingers George and get her claim. Desperate, she agrees to care for Chet, a bounty hunter's baby, if will help her locate Three Fingers George. In his mind it is not a good idea, but agrees because he wants to locate the same man who has killed his family.
Traveling through Indian country in 1867 in Dakota Territory puts the couple in constant danger. Disagreements arise threatening to upset their mission. Can the couple overcome their differences and find solutions to their quest? Will they find love?
Desert Breeze Publishing introduced my latest book, DAY OF RECKONING. The book is a western historical romance set in what was Dakota Territory in 1867. Today it is in Wyoming. A bounty hunter after a vicious outlaw visits a small Kansas town looking for the man. When he arrives, the prostitutes at the saloon inform him the outlaw is gone, but he has a four month old son. At first he denies the child, but realizes he is his. He asks the women to look after the child. They cannot in their line of work, but suggest he ask a woman living in a covered wagon to care for the child. She refuses until she discovers he is after the same out law as she. She agrees to care for the child, if she can join him in his search for the outlaw.