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Guess what? It's interview time! I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Wolf once again! Dive into the fascinating creation of The Homeplace as well as an amazing conversation about the world of writing. 

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Chase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he has come home. His friends are right there waiting for him. And so are his enemies.

Then the murder of a boy, a high school basketball star just like Chase, rocks the small town. When another death is discovered―one that also shares unsettling connections to him―law enforcement’s attention turns towards Chase, causing him to wonder just what he came home to.

A suspenseful, dramatic crime novel, The Homeplace captures the stark beauty of life on the Colorado plains.

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Guess what? It's interview time! I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Farmer, an amazing historical fiction author. Dive into Trini Come! and learn about the true events that followed this incredible account. 

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Based on an historical event, Trinidad Verdâin's story reveals the courage, suffering, and lessons a twelve-year-old girl learns about Apaches and herself during her captivity with the Naiche-Geronimo band hiding, fighting, and raiding in northern Sonora. After breaking their surrender agreement with General George Crook in late March 1886, forty Apaches (eighteen men, fourteen women, and six children) led by Geronimo established a camp at the top of the Azul Mountains in western Sonora and began raiding north. They crossed the United States border with Mexico east of Nogales, Arizona, stole horses from the village of Calabasas, and on the morning of April 27, 1886, attacked the Artisan and Petra Peck Ranch about eight miles northwest of Nogales. They killed pregnant Petra and her two-year-old son, Andy, and were about to kill her niece, Trinidad, when Geronimo decided to spare the child and took her captive. Later that day Geronimo also let Artisan Peck live after he was taken while branding cattle. The Apaches carry Trinidad east deep into the Pinito Mountains where she witnesses an ambush of black soldiers before Geronimo leads the band back west to the Cibuta Mountains where they are attacked by Mexican militiamen who are mostly Tohono O'odham Indians. The Tohono O'odham militia suffer a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Apaches who show them Trinidad, challenging them to come take her. Instead the militia run away. The Apaches return east and establish a camp on the Râio Santa Cruz and in the Cocâospera Mountains while they raid for livestock and fight US Cavalry. Trinidad becomes friends with a boy, Garditha, near her age who teaches her to use a sling. She helps him learn Spanish; he helps her learn Apache. While practicing with their slings they are attacked by three vaqueros who want the boy's scalp for Apache scalp reward money, but Trini and Garditha drive the attackers off. Geronimo later leads the vaqueros into a trap using Trini for bait. With the US Cavalry hot on their trail, the Apaches split into three bands, the smallest being Geronimo's, which includes Trini, and they plan to reunite about a hundred miles southeast in the mountains at the confluence of the Yaqui and Aros Rivers. While going up the Râio Dolores, Geronimo's band is attacked by Mexican militia. Geronimo tries to escape with Trinidad behind him but his horse stumbles and they are both thrown off. Trinidad uses the fall as an opportunity to escape to the Mexican militia led by Don Patricio Valenzuela. After giving her story to the US Cavalry led by Captain Lawton and Mexican authorities, her Uncle Artisan returns her back to Nogales"--

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Guess what? It's interview time! I had the pleasure of interviewing Candace Simar, an incredible historical fiction author! Dive into Sister Lumberjack! With unlikely friendships forged, navigate the unique reality of Sister Lumberjack! 

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Bottle fever has Nels Jensen by the throat. Swindled out of his summer’s pay, he heads to the logging camps of Northern Minnesota, only to discover he is blacklisted at reputable operations. He is neither a thief nor a liar, but he cannot prove his innocence. Widow Solveig Rognaldson is left alone with heartache and a mortgage. Without a well-paying job, she will lose her Foxhome farm. Her son marries and moves away. Though she feels too old, she musters courage to strike out on her own. She has to save the farm by herself. She has no one else. Trouble follows Sister Magdalena, a jolly nun who struggles with rules. A giant of a woman, she is sent to sell hospital tickets to lumberjacks working the forests of Minnesota. It is dangerous work, and those with a ticket receive free health care if they are injured. She travels alone to isolated logging camps in the dead of winter, sometimes by snowshoes. The jacks call her Sister Lumberjack. These three lives intersect at Starkweather Timber, a haywire logging camp, where everything goes wrong. Their unique friendship turns their lives in unexpected directions.

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Guess what? It's interview time! I had the pleasure of interviewing C.M. Wendelboe, a murder mystery author with western flair! Dive into his novel, Death Under the Deluge where the twists and turns will keep you guessing. With an intricately weaved plot, fall into this new mystery and stay on your toes! You never know what happens next. 

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A corpse is found lashed to a submerged cabin under the Missouri River just south of a Sioux Indian reservation... A corpse tied there perhaps seventy years ago... A corpse shot and tied there just before the river was flooded over a resort island first discovered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition...

FBI Agent Manny Tanno is assigned to assist local law enforcement in the decades-old homicide. Suspects abound, including the owner of a trucking company and a long-dead Lakota Code Talker for the Army in World War Two.

And dangers abound as a deputy sheriff also investigating the case is murdered. Manny's life is threatened as he's repeatedly attacked, barely escaping death himself.

Will he survive to solve the cold case and the killing of the young deputy sheriff? Is there even a chance he can find the killer of the deputy? Or any chance the murderer of the floating man is still among the living? Manny must dodge bullets as he works to stay alive long enough to catch the killers.

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Guess what? It's interview time! I had the absolute pleasure of interviewing Manuela, a historical fiction author. Dive into the interesting world of Madame Mustache. Learn her story and the way Manuela expertly weaves the truths behind forgotten history. 

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The Memoir of Madame Moustache shows how the formative years of a gambler affected her as a career woman in the Old West.

Eleanor Dumont earned the famous nickname “Madame Moustache” during her early life as the most well-known of all blackjack dealers in American pioneer days. One of the bravest and most adventurous women of her time, she became the first female owner of a gambling hall in U.S. history.

Her looks and French Creole charm were legendary. So were her people management skills. She kept rowdy miners, outlaws, and prostitutes under control with the help of a loaded gun, if necessary.

Follow her unique and tragic life from the pinnacle of success to betrayal and, yes, even murder. Join Madame Moustache on her wild ride through the California Gold Rush with the first book of a three-book series. Learn why she was both a pioneer character and a legend.

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Guess what? We have a memoir to dive into! Listen to the brave story behind Mansur Nurdel and his journey to America. From the roots of religion to the valor of embarking on a life changing journey. 

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This book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all.

Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and political persecution. In 1988, I was one of them.

My family are followers of the Baha'i Faith, a religion founded in Iran and practiced by millions of people worldwide today. Muslims in Iran consider it a blasphemous, illegitimate religion. For more than four decades, Baha'is in Iran have been stripped of all human rights. We are routinely arrested, detained, tortured, imprisoned, and executed without cause.

This is my story about what life was like living under Islamic rule. It's a story about determination, perseverance, and Faith.

I was 25 when I fled Iran with two friends. We crossed the forbidding Zagros Mountains in the height of winter, seeking asylum in Turkey. More than a year later, I arrived in America, speaking little English, knowing no one, and understanding little about the country except what I gleaned from television.

One More Mountain provides a never-before-seen look at what life in Iran is still like for those who have no power, no voice, and no freedoms.

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Guess what? I had the pleasure of interviewing Jim Overstreet, a rancho author! Dive into a spiky rivalry that stretches beyond competition. Meet Warren Weston and Rusty Blackstone. The two boys couldn't be any different. Warren, the only son of wealthy ranch owners. Rusty, the son of a fiddle-footed cowboy and a mother juggling two jobs to make ends meet. Dive into rancho life and a competition that defines not only characters, but souls too. 

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Rusty Blackstone and Warren Weston have spent their whole lives trying their best to spite each other. But they're about to find out what they're truly made of-in the biggest competition of their lifetimes.

The son of wealthy ranch owners, Warren Weston is an only child, torn between the demands of his father and the adulation of his mother. Rusty Blackstone's father is a fiddle-footed cowboy, and his mother holds two jobs to feed him and his sisters. Rusty works hard and barely realizes that they are poor.

The two boys become bitter rivals at their first encounter. They grow up on Montana ranches but see the world from completely different perspectives. When rodeo becomes their passion, they take their rivalry to the roots that have shaped them and the ground they've worked.

A novel spanning twenty years under the blue Montana sky, A Montana Rivalry is a love song to the rancher's grit, and to the determination that drives the fiercest loyalties.

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Guess what? I had the pleasure of interviewing Kevin Wolf, a mystery author! Dive into the nuanced mystery in Trailridge. Guy Hogan's normal days get turned upside down when he discovers something floating in the water. Get ready for twists and turns, you're in a fun time!

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Guy Hogan and his wife planned to share their dream home in Colorado but cancer his took her from him. The mountains became his refuge and each day he hoped the next cast of his flyrod will chase away his loneliness.

Then he finds a man's body in his favorite trout stream.

Learning why the man died becomes a quest to fill his emptiness. Hogan befriends a young woman as empty as he. Their path leads to a ring of poachers killing elk for their antlers, a break neck car chase across the twist and turns of the highest paved road in the United States, and the fury of a mountain flash flood.

But the young woman is not what she seems. Will her deadly secrets force Hogan to become the very thing he despises? The challenge is as treacherous as Trail ridge Road.

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Guess what? It's interview time!  I had the pleasure of interviewing Annie! The talented author behind Leeta Simtar- A Life on Two Planets: The Unauthorized Biography. Meet Leeta Simtar, an interspecies hybrid on planet Fure! When Leeta finds out everything she has ever known is a lie, she decides it's time to learn the truth. A journey across space and time you will never forget! Join us as we discuss the BTS of Leeta Simtar: A Life on Two Planets! Plenty of fun awaits!

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Leeta Simtar isn’t the only interspecies hybrid on the planet Fure, though she is, without a doubt, noticeably different from all the others. Not only is she impossibly tall and wildly unpredictable, she leads with her feelings, in contrast to everyone else’s steady calm and logical demeanor. When Leeta’s offended, she rages and attacks. When something touches her deeply, she gushes and weeps. No wonder she has always believed something’s wrong with her, because clearly, she doesn’t belong on Fure.

When Leeta suddenly finds out that what she’s believed about herself is a lie, she is more than ready to discover the truth. Since no one on Fure is talking, her only hope is to go rogue and find her own answers. She travels forty light years in search of others like herself—assuming there are others.

With just eight days to unearth her origin story, Leeta follows clues that lead her across time and space hoping to find where she truly belongs. Readers of young adult science fiction, speculative/what-if fiction, and coming-of-age stories will connect to Leeta’s intergalactic adventure. They’ll be rooting for her to get what she needs, whether that means returning to Fure armed with the truth, staying in a far away place with her new found family, or finding home within her own heart.

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Guess what? My episode with Laura Hern is here! Special thank you to Blue Cottage Agency! 

Guess what? It's interview time! I had the pleasure of interviewing Laura! The talented author behind The Family Tree Murders! Meet Lainey, a recently widowed insurance investigator! When an email beckons a further investigation, Lainey will take a plunge into a DNA, inheritance mystery that will keep the reader guessing! Join us as we discuss the BTS of The Family Tree Murders! Plenty of fun awaits!

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Lainey needed a change after her husband died and the quaint town of Mirror Falls, MN, was just the ticket. But the email worried her. Why was Mary so upset about a DNA test?

Mary had done it as a lark. It might be fun to find out about her family’s history. When the DNA test came back, everything changed. Was her brother next in line for a substantial inheritance...or be setup for murder?

As a seasoned insurance investigator, Lainey had worked out more than her fair share of sinister plots, but this was different. With the help of her quirky friends, she’s determined to figure out who’s been trimming off branches of the family tree.

An intriguing and fun cozy mystery that will keep you guessing until the end. You’ll love it because the characters are delightful and the twists will keep you turning the pages.

The Family Tree Murders is the first book in The Lainey Maynard Mystery series. Join Lainey and her friends as they work to solve the mystery. Scroll up and one-click this cozy adventure today!

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