Trixie Trouble all grown up!

I’m finished.

It’s official, it’s real. After 7 years, I’m content that my latest book, Trixie Trouble, is complete. Multiple drafts, multiple edits, and lots of character work... which is why I haven’t blogged lately. I just soooo needed to be done.

I also gave birth to two beautiful baby girls, worked through a succession of severe health issues, and left my hometown to support my husband as he undertook a major career change.

Now, things are settled. Now, I am ready to once again claim the title of working writer. And my book is done!!!

I can’t WAIT to share it with you, but in the meantime, here is a taste:

The year is 1870. Gold from California drives the expansion of the railroad, and new wealth rolls into Texas with the explosion of the cattle trade. The law is a shifting thing, and justice lies in the rough hands of those who dare to settle the last frontier. 

In a sleepy Methodist town, tucked away in the Texas hill country, a spirited young girl watches as the people of Providence convict and hang her horse-thieving father. Trixie’s fierce loyalty to her father’s memory and her unfortunate knack for trouble brand her as an outcast in a town already suspicious of her intent. 

A violent attack drives Trixie from Providence and to the wild cattle town of Shaughnessy, where she encounters her beautiful and devious mother, Georgina Clay. Desperate for belonging and acceptance, Trixie joins her mother’s outlaw gang, but her heart is torn by her love for young Donovan Priest, the young son of a local reverend.  

When Donovan witnesses the outlaw gang pull a bank heist, Trixie is forced to betray her mother to save him. To keep Donovan alive, Trixie must outwit her mother and forge a new identity for herself: one that will take her beyond the conventions of society, law, and religion. 

Trixie Trouble is being sent out into the ether seeking for a home with an agent. And already my mind has leapt ahead to my next project. (More on that next time).

And yes, it is a Western. No aliens, no time travel: just a romping adventure along the wild Texas frontier; a classic genre reinvented for a new generation. Because I wanted to.

:D