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  • Western Literature with a Magical Realism Twist

    Western Literature with a Magical Realism Twist

    Nora Callahan can feel trouble before it has a name.

    She calls it reading weather—a sense, inherited from a grandmother she barely knew, that warns her when a man has already decided something terrible and just hasn’t done it yet. It saved her life once, in a trading post in New Mexico, when she walked out the back door for no reason she could explain. It’s saved her more times since.

    But Nora didn’t come west to be anyone’s oracle. She came to build a life after her husband’s death, on a parcel of land between two families who don’t know yet that they’re about to tear each other apart—and a man riding into the valley who gives off no weather at all. No pressure, no warning, nothing she can read. Just a blank where a person should be.

    Now everyone she’s come to love is standing in the path of something she can feel coming and can’t stop, can’t name, and may not be able to warn them about in time.

    THE RIM COUNTRY, Book One. Coming Soon! (More on this book!)

  • The Questions “The Rim Country” Asks

    The Questions “The Rim Country” Asks

    The Rim Country isn’t really about the 1880s. It’s about a question that hasn’t gotten any easier to answer: what do you do with the people you love when you can see them heading toward something irreversible, and you can’t honestly tell them they’re wrong to go?

    The novel sits inside ideas that feel less like history and more like a mirror—the difference between forgiveness and reconciliation, and why people confuse them; how revenge dresses itself up as justice when accountability is absent; and how two communities stalemated in a grudge war are often the last to notice they’re being played by ambitious outsiders.

    Nora Callahan, the woman caught in the middle of it, doesn’t get to stay above the fray and dispense wisdom. She has to live inside the not-knowing, the same way we all do when the people around us make devastating but somewhat defensible choices we can’t stop.

    THE RIM COUNTRY, Book One. Coming Soon! (More on this book!)

  • War is Coming to the Valley!

    War is Coming to the Valley!

    Nora Callahan’s gifting has kept her alive more than once—it’s how she knows, long before neighbor ranching families will admit it, that war is coming to the valley and she can’t stop it.


    THE RIM COUNTRY, Book One. Coming Soon! (More on this book!)