My first novel, Banjo Flats, is about a young woman orphaned at an early age, somewhere around ten or twelve years old. The year is 1873. Abandoned on the streets of Cheyenne, Wyoming, she masquerades as a boy to survive. Her mother taught her to read and write. Her father taught her how to handle guns. She’s got street smarts and is a crack shot which lands her in a heap of trouble after killing a notorious gunfighter the day she arrives in Banjo Flats, the most lawless town in the Dakota Territory.  It’s a time when frontier justice is wielded with a gun. Every shootist in the Territory is headed for Banjo Flats thinking they can earn some easy money by killing the girl gunslinger. They’re wrong.

Here is a video trailer for Banjo Flats.

And, here is a recording of me reading the opening chapter.

My second novel is titled Second Chance and is the sequel to Banjo Flats

Fortune returns home to Banjo Flats in the Dakota Territory where she earned her reputation as a “shoot first, ask questions later” kind of gunfighter. She agrees to accompany the federal marshal to Deadwood to bring back a notorious outlaw, but life gets complicated when she rescues a pair of young orphaned brothers along the road. While in Deadwood she picks up the trail of a lost gold shipment and is forced to confront a dark memory from her past and settle a long-standing score with the cold-blooded Mose Horn.

Here is a video trailer for Second Chance.

We now have a Trilogy.

Heartbreak Rodeo is the third book in The Fortune Saga series. The year is 1874. Fortune is now a Deputy Marshall in Banjo Flats, Dakota Territory. The circus is in town and a gypsy fortune teller warns her that a stranger is on his way to find her. That same day, a man does ride into town. His name is Tristan Roy. He arrives in Banjo Flats with two companions, one a Métis scout, the other, a confederate soldier who cannnot speak. Fortune knows, without asking, that Tristan is her long-lost twin brother.

Tristan who was adopted by a family in Upper Canada, was brought up in affluence and privilege. He learned about Fortune from an old poster advertising her as a gunfighter, and he is intent on learning more about her and his family’s roots. In spite of their biological connection, ther lives are worlds apart and they struggle to get along.

As it happens, Tristan is not the man the gypsy warned Fortune about. It is another stranger who arrives in Banjo Flats. A truly dangerous man known only as ‘The Horseman’. He is a deranged preacher whose mission is to kill Fortune at any cost.

Tristan becomes involved in Fortune’s fight against ‘The Hornseman’ and through this and other perilous situations, they are compelled to join forces. They slowly begin to understand that, although their lives are worlds apart, their hearts are one.