Savannah is Available!

I'm happy to say that the first book of my new historical western romance series, Silver Dollar Saloon is now available and I'm pleased with the response so far.

This series came after having placed a poll in my newsletter asking what kind of historical western series my readers liked to read. It turned out that most liked a setting where there were families or community that were reoccurring in the books. That's how I came up with the characters of the Silver Dollar Saloon. You'll learn about a good number of the people I populated Shady Gulch, Dakota Territory with and learn that the Silver Dollar Saloon isn't your typical saloon. But I'll keep you guessing as to why until I write Beau Gentry's book.  He's the owner of the saloon. He makes sure no one touches his girls. Women he's helped out of desperate situations and given a purpose and eventually a husband and family.

Here is the blurb for Savannah

Escaping a past full of deceit and larceny, Savannah Gentry goes in search of her only kin, a half-brother she discovered after her father’s death. She hopes Shady Gulch in the Dakota Territory can give her a future. There she stumbles into the arms of Reverend Larkin Webster, finds herself working in the Silver Dollar Saloon, and soon fears she’s gone from the frying pan into the fire.

After dodging death and incarceration, the Topeka Kid decides to turn his life around and takes on a new identity. Reverend Larkin Webster. It works, until he finds a temptation he can’t resist and steals the heart of Savannah Gentry. When her past collides with his, he wonders if this theft could end up with him losing everything, including his life. 

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Cover Reveal!

My talented cover artist and daughter sent me the cover for Savannah, the first book in the new Silver Dollar Saloon historical western romance series.  We went back and forth a bit with how the cover should look since this will be the  first in the series and we wanted the saloon on the cover.  I think we achieved what we set out to do. (authors if you need covers, covered by clkeerins is looking for more clients)

For those who aren't familiar with the upcoming series, the Silver Dollar Saloon is in Shady Gulch, Dakota Territory. This is a town along the Northern Pacific Railroad. It took me several days to populate the town. I have a nice mix of different nationalities as that area was populated with Scandinavians, Russians, Germans, and anyone looking to homestead. I've started the timeline of the series while area was still a territory and will continue it through the splitting into North and South Dakota.
 

As you can tell by the series title this is not following a family. I guess I should say a normal family. The women who work at the saloon and the two men who run it, Jules Mathieu, a creole, and Beau Gentry, along with the woman who runs the boarding house where the women stay, are like a large dysfunctional family.

This first book brings Beau's past to Shady Gulch. Savannah Gentry, a half-sister he didn't know he had arrives looking for him after their father dies. 

This is the working blurb:

Savannah Gentry has lost everything. Her father is dead, their mansion and everything in it is now owned by a banker twice her age who wants her for his wife. Knowing her only chance to survive is to find the half-brother she only learned about at her father’s death, she sets out for Shady Gulch, Dakota Territory.

After hiding in an outhouse to keep from being killed by his own gang and the law, Topeka Kid died and Reverend Larkin Webster was reborn. When Savannah Gentry, sister to the owner of the Silver Dollar Saloon, stumbles off the train and into his arms, he chases the excitement he once knew as an outlaw. This time, his heart won’t listen to his head.  He can’t resist stealing her heart even if it could end his career as a preacher and possibly his life.