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The Roaring 20s . . . It was a marvelous time to be alive, a decade of prosperity, social and political change, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Hemingway, the Jazz Age, and the lost generation.
Maggie O’Sullivan and C.J. Elliot marry and set off pursuing the promise of excitement, wealth, and opulence. Maggie is a modern woman battling a still restrictive environment. She’s confident, strong, striking, funny, and a champion of women’s issues. She’s also reckless—a bit Clara Bow, a touch Louise Brooks, with a smattering of Garbo.
Maggie fights for women’s rights, says what she wants, embraces being a flapper, bobs her hair, shortens her skirts, and dances The Charleston. C.J. sets out to win Maggie and write the Great American Novel.
The married Elliotts immerse themselves into a group of expatriates and, later, the elite of Hollywood. For all its glamor, the dark underbelly of The Jazz Age makes the decade a tricky time for romance, love, marriage, and friendships. Even sanity is hard to maintain.
The year is 1860. Ally Hart is a strong woman, but overseeing a lonely ranch near Fort Laramie, Wyoming isn’t what she had in mind when she married. After her husband’s death, it’s all that’s left.
A rival rancher has malice in his heart. He means to do Ally harm. How far can a woman be pushed? Will she ever stand and fight? Can she win if she does? The answer falls squarely on Ally’s shoulders until fate intervenes in the form of two men. The three have never met. If lives lasted forever, they never would. But lives don’t last forever.
Ally’s story is told in an enduring style, spilling over with realism, the grit of the Old West, and a dash of good humor. The characters—all imperfect—face loss, fear, conflict. They seek independence, redemption, perhaps love, or simply their place in the world.
Hard Goodbyes is the story of a young widow whose life depends on sober reason or delusion—pragmatism or idealism. It’s not pretty. It may get ugly.
The time is 1868, and a treaty between the American Government and the Sioux Nation threatens the long-established home of settlers in the Bighorn Mountains.
A beautiful woman with dark hair and eyes, Annie Laurie, is ardently in love with Gray Wehr. Unfortunately, he is no perfect love. The man is flawed-all are. Loving him is senseless, painful, frustrating, but she'd have it no other way.
Wehr's insatiable wanderlust has repeatedly pulled him out of his valley home, where an unsought gun reputation haunts his life. Although having come home, ostensibly to stay, he gives in to Annie and agrees to take her, his two years younger sister, and four friends on an arduous journey to Fort Laramie and back home.
An odd group of townsfolk will fight to save their home. Crossing the Crazy Woman is a novel of the human spirit, freedom, and of life and death.
