For an author, a new release is like your birthday and Christmas all rolled into one. I might even go so far as to add your wedding day and the birth of your first child . . . but maybe not. And it doesn’t matter if this is the first book or one of many.

My seventh full-length novel, “Cassie”, is now available in both paperback (Amazon) and ebook (Amazon and D2D), and I’m very excited. I’m often asked by readers at signings which of my books is my favorite. My answer is always my most recent.

Victim. Avenger. Murderess. In the span of four months, Cassie Jo Foster would be all these things.

Henry and Cassie Foster were working their dream panning for gold until the night a gang of four men raided their camp while they slept. By the time it was over, everything was gone. Cassie’s husband, son, and friends were dead, and Cassie’s face was scarred for life from the end of a whip. She knows Charlie Carson and his friends are responsible and vows to bring them to justice.

When Frank Waterston sees smoke on the horizon, he rides out to investigate. He finds the still smoldering ruins of the Mule Deer Creek mining camp. All the occupants murdered except the beautiful Cassie Foster, injured but alive. He promises her justice will be done. But promises are not always easily kept. Frank knows danger is everywhere in a town like Deadwood, where even the bad guys have friends.

Brought together in the face of tragedy, they find more than a shared desire for justice. Can Frank heal Cassie’s broken heart while she learns to navigate her new life?