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Follow Kade McCauley, 

a frontiersman looking toward the future. 

And Blind Deer, a determined woman

    seeking to recapture her past.

As a free trapper, mountain man Kade McCauley is wary of the Hudson Bay Company. 

  Their Form of vengeance against those who are not part of the company can be deadly. 
  When he and his partner are attacked, he fights back, only to discover one of his shots struck an innocent.  A woman who touches his soul, and he will do anything to keep her safe. 
    While searching for her Native American tribe, Blind Deer crosses paths with Kade—with near fatal results. Once she is patched up, she decides it is safer to travel with him than alone.
       Their uneasy alliance turns to genuine caring, but

Blind Deer's past gets in the way, and she must choose between love or old obligations. 

     

  But nothing in life is carved in stone except the mountains, and those formidable peaks have been known to change the course of a man's life—or a woman's.

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Candy Corn, tis the season.

    

The National Confectioners Association celebrates National Candy Corn Day on October 30, a time to honor the annual production of 9 billion pieces of candy that most people probably only eat once a year (unless you’re a die hard fan who buys red-white-and-green ones for Christmas or red-white-and-pink ones for your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.

The trade association claims candy corn was invented in the 1880s by a Wunderlee Candy Company an employee  George Renninger. 

Wunderlee was reportedly the first to produce the

candy, followed by the Goelitz Candy Company (now

the Jelly Belly Candy Company), which has been producing the tri-colored candies since 1898. 

   Back then, the cooking process was done by hand: a sugar and corn syrup-based mixture was cooked a semi-liquid mixture in a large kettle, dumped into buckets called runners, and men dubbed stringers walked backwards, pouring the hot concoction into a tray of molds in the shape of corn kernels.

                             

Brach’s candy factory’s machine puts corn starch in trays of 1,260 individual molds and moves them along a conveyor belt as air nozzles inject the color. If you want to deep-fry them, you’ll have to do that at home.

                                
Of course, you probably know people who can barely bring themselves to eat candy corn on Halloween because it’s too sweet, and doesn’t have enough flavor. 
    But in a world where there are candy corn-flavored bagels, M&Ms, coffee latte, vodka martinis, cake,

jello, fudge, soap, plus stuffed toys, leggings & socks, and fingernail polish made out of, or made to look like candy corn, there really is something for everyone to enjoy.

                                                       

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Loving my new tomahawk target

For several years, my husband and I enjoyed mountain man re-enacting, a truly great experience. There were various shooting events for both men and women, but my forte was the frying pan toss and the tomahawk throw!

 Recently I had a yen to practice with my hawks but needed a target. Wanting to construct this myself, I turned to printing info from the web and watching how-to clips on Youtube. Unfortunately the process involved MATH so I made little headway. Then my amazing brother-in-law volunteered to supervise the project (which means he did all the brain work and got all the supplies).

Steve was so patient, and after the laughter died down regarding my abominable hammering skills, we entered the drilling and sawing phase and made better progress. 

                  My wonderful neighbors 
donated the wood for the target face.

                            And mission accomplished!

 Just looking at  the target brings back so many happy and fun memories, and my construction skills were a good source of entertainment for all.

       My sister made the first stick, way to go!

          Being the oldest, she has always led the way.

By evening, I'd improved quite a bit, and stuck three in row. Planning on many hours of fun with the new target. Thank you everybody.

               

                     Watch for my new release, 

Trapper's Moon.

                 A mountain man story filled with                                        Romance and adventure

                                 

   As a free trapper, mountain man Kade McCauley is wary of the Hudson Bay Company. Their form of vengeance against those who are not part of the company can be deadly. When he and his partner are attacked, he fights back, only to discover one of his shots struck an innocent. A woman who touches his soul, and he will do anything to keep her safe.

   While searching for her Native American tribe, Blind Deer crosses paths with Kade—with near fatal results. Once she is patched up, she decides it is safer to travel with him than alone.

 Their uneasy alliance turns to genuine caring, but Blind Deer's past gets in the way, and she must choose between love or old obligations. But nothing in life is carved in stone except the mountains, and those formidable peaks have been known to change the course of a man's life--or a woman's.

A fun trip back home

                     What a wonderful trip back home to Illinois. Seeing cousins, Jr. High, and High School friends, and celebrating my 50 year Nurses Training reunion. 

Living in Colorado I am always amazed at the landscape back home. Lush green hardwood forests, so thick you can barely see more than a few feet into them, and all the beautiful foliage in front of the houses and lining the streets. 

Fun lunches at ice cream shops, 

and the amazing cruise luncheon down the Mississippi .   

  Mansions along the Mississippi

                     

THE END

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Clover City, Colorado—1888
A mysterious letter and the drop-dead handsome town marshal, are the last things Mariah expects to find making rounds as a midwife. 

Mariah McAllister plans to be married before her next birthday. Too bad Marshal Virgil Kincaid barely knows she’s alive. Not one to give up easily, she’s determined to show him she has an abiding passion for more than her work.

Virgil Kincaid loved a woman once—after she broke his heart, he spent three years in prison. Women can’t be trusted, no matter how good they look. He’s sworn off relationships in favor of Saturday night poker games. Life is simple—the way he wants it…until a stranger turns up dead in the road. 

Forced to work side by side with Mariah, Virgil begins to wonder if she might be his second chance at love. As they trade kisses and oh so much more, he’s willing to take the gamble. But when a killer threatens their once peaceful town, all bets are off.  

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   She believes in the Tarot cards. 

                  Four-of-a-kind is more his style.

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When East End London 
meets the Wild West, 

sparks fly.

    Kicked out of England for offending the Royal Family, Britania Rule heads for Leadville, in the Colorado backcountry. Passing herself off as a highborn lady, she pursues her dream of opening a parlor of spiritual enlightenment.

 Cody James, her guide, thinks he must be half-crazy to hire-out to a female. But his luck at the gaming tables has run dry, and she’s his meal-ticket out of town. Betrayed by the only woman he ever loved, and shot and left for dead by a man he once called friend, Cody declares himself a loner.

   Traveling side by side, they deny their desire for one another, but the Tarot cards say otherwise—and their hot night of passion confirms the prediction. Will love be waiting at the end of the trail? Or could Cody’s past destroy their future?

Breaking new ground, female journalist and war corespondent, Claire Hollingworth.

   As a young woman, Hollingworth was eager to report about the growing European conflict so, in 1939, she traveled to Warsaw, Poland to aid refugees from the Sudetenland, the region of Czechoslovakia that had been annexed by the Nazis the previous year. 

She wrote about the refugees' plight in small British publications and The Telegraph hired her as a correspondent for the region. 
    
Three days after being hired, on August 28, she commandeered an official car from the British consul general and drove over the border into Nazi Germany. Thanks to an old but still valid German visa she’d gotten for a ski vacation, she was able to enter Germany and shepherd refugees to Poland and then on to safety.

   At age 27, on her return trip, a gust of wind led her to the scoop of a lifetime. The wind lifted part

of a tarp which had been erected to hide the German side of a valley from view. Through the gap, as Hollingworth later wrote, she saw “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns." 

    She knew immediately that Germany was preparing to invade Poland and she hurried back to send the news to her editor. Hollingworth's article, a world exclusive, was published on August 29; German forces invaded Poland on September 1, marking the start of WWII.

      Hollingworth worked as a correspondent for British news throughout WWII

except for a period in 1943, when General Montgomery banned British women correspondents from the front lines; undeterred, she took a job with the Chicago Daily News covering Dwight D. Eisenhower’s command in Algiers. In reflecting on that period in one of her books, she observed, "It was essential to be able to go without washing, sleep in the open desert and live on bully-beef and biscuits for days on end. Many male correspondents got themselves sent back to Cairo because they could not take it.”

          Hollingworth received the Order of the British

Empire in 1982 for her services to journalism and lived for the last 30 years within sight of the Foreign Correspondent’s Club in Hong Kong, where "Claire's Table" was always reserved in her honor. In 1989, at nearly 80 years old, she was seen climbing up a lamppost in Tiananmen Square for a better view of the Chinese government's crackdown on democracy.

When Hollingworth turned 100, her eyesight failing but her vigor unabated, she was asked what she would do if she were young. “I should look through the papers and say, ‘Where’s the most dangerous place to go?’ because it always makes a good story.” 
Claire Hollingworth died January 10, 2017 at the age of  105.  

 Follow Garrick Allen, my Crimean war correspondent in Lady Gallant. Along with Nurse Josephine Posey they fight to save the soldiers and each other. 
 

   Disowned by her father and still mourning the death of her fiancé, Josephine Posey joins Florence Nightingale’s brigade of nurses bound for the Black Sea. Thousands of British soldiers desperately await these angels of mercy and a new life awaits Josie. Amidst the chaos of death and despair, she finds a spark of hope, lighting the flame once more inside her soul. 

    In search of the truth, Garrick Allen, one of Britain’s first war correspondents also journeys to the Crimean Peninsula. To him the soldiers seem all but abandoned by Queen and country, and as he smokes his cheroots and makes friends with a bottle, he writes his bold but honest dispatches for The Times.  Not wanting anything more than to finish his job and go home, Garrick is blind-sided by a nurse with attitude who offers him a new slant on life and a reason to love.

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