The Real Orphan Trains

In A Family for Merry, a novella I wrote that appeared in Orphan Train Brides with Jacquie Rogers, I wrote about the orphan trains. The orphan trains were real. They ran between 1854 and 1929. They were an imperfect solution to a huge problem. Children in New York...

The Real Mail-Order Brides

Do you love escaping into stories about mail-order brides as much as I do—whether you’re reading one of my novels or those by other authors who bring this classic trope to life? The dangers, the dreams, the promise of new love on a wild frontier: it’s easy to get...

Hamish Adams Interview

Caroline Clemmons interviews Hamish Adams, the father of the woman Shad finds and cares for. Shad is a western romance that involves a bounty hunter and a ranching family who are displaced from their ranch by the crooks Shad is hunting. Shad may have met his match in...

Shad Stone Interview

Shad Stone is interviewed by Caroline Clemmons, the author of his adventure in book 7 of the Guns for Hire series. He proves almost as elusive as some of the outlaws he has captured as a bounty hunter. If you love sweet western historical romance, bounty hunter...

Avonleigh Adams Interview

Read this Avonleigh Adams interview to meet a real tough lady. She has to be. Avonleigh was injured escaping the outlaws that invaded her home. She is determined to retake her home but doesn’t know how. Shad wants to capture the outlaw who invaded the Adams ranch. Can...

In A Murderous Rage

An anonymous cowboy on a horse in Custer County, Nebraska, circa 1870-1880. When I was doing genealogy on my family, I found that Joseph Price Akridge, my grandmother’s uncle, was said to have ridden from Blue Ridge, Texas, near McKinney, to Chattooga County, Georgia,...

Angeline Excerpt

Angeline is one of the women Lydia Harrison brought to Tarnation, Texas, to marry young men who would otherwise leave town. Lydia was making a last-ditch attempt to save the town. Angeline was about to jump in front of a train because her fiancé forced her to have sex...

Josephine Excerpt

Some people freeze when there is trouble. Others fight. Josephine is a fighter. She moved to Tarnation, Texas, in search of a better future. She has met someone she cares for. Then some rowdy cowboys ride in to town. One attacks Josephine but she fights him off. He...

My Happily Ever After

This first ran on my blog, A Writer’s Life, on 2/21/2025. With all that is going on in the world, reading romances that end well can provide a welcome escape. I hope you remember there is good in the world when you read my books. Each of us deserves a...
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