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Last year on Valentine’s Day, I was featured by the Mark Twain House & Museum in the author spotlight, Romancing Mark Twain . Later in the year, my novel Tom Sawyer Returns won the Laramie Grand Prize for Americana Fiction in the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards . This year, it reached First Place in the 2022 contest for Mystery . I could not be more thrilled and honored. Both books in this series are the work of a lifetime. Of all the novels I’ve written, these are my favorite....

The last, and most exciting, installment in the series, Steam! Romance and Rails. The Pinkerton & the Outlaw May 1874, Indian Territory A Pinkerton detective and an outlaw form a temporary partnership to solve a mystery and get caught in a net of corruption, crime, and murder. The Steam! series follows a trail of historical events surrounding the expansion of the railroad across the American West. For Lawless Hearts , I took inspiration from the history of the Pinkerton Agency and the...