Book Two is underway
The Keeping of Haven Creek, the second book of the sagas, is being written now. While it takes shape, The Claim on Haven Creek is available now — and the mailing list will be the first to hear when Book Two has a date.
The Claim on Haven Creek
Montana Territory, 1884. Katherine Sterling didn’t come west looking for love. She came looking for a way out — out of a suffocating engagement, out of a life that had never quite fit. Her teaching contract in the small frontier town of Wilsall was supposed to be her fresh start, her four walls of freedom. She didn’t expect Caleb Morgan.
A former cavalryman with scarred hands and a quiet authority that the wilderness seemed to recognize, Caleb is building something on a wild stretch of land he calls Haven Creek — a homestead, a future, and maybe something worth protecting. He doesn’t have room in those plans for a sharp-tongued schoolteacher from back East.
Then a blizzard changes everything. Stranded together in a one-room schoolhouse as temperatures plunge and a town full of judgmental eyes waits for dawn, Katherine and Caleb survive the night — and ignite a scandal neither of them asked for. Now, to protect her reputation and his land, they’ll have to build more than a homestead. They’ll have to build a life, side by side, in a place that rewards stubbornness and punishes pride.
The Claim on Haven Creek is a story about two people learning that the hardest thing to build isn’t a barn or a boundary fence — it’s the willingness to let someone else in.
For adult readers. Contains mature themes and content.