Book #2 of "The Trent Carter Series," due out by year-end!
Here's the "blurb" that describes my new book, and which will appear on the back cover. A good blurb is supposed to make someone want to buy the book instead of putting it back on the shelf. So what do you think? Following the events detailed in ACT OF CONTRITION (the first book of his story), Trent Carter, former Colfax County deputy sheriff, has finally retired to peacefully live out the remainder of his days with his new wife, Maggie, on her horse ranch east of Raton, NM—or so he thinks. But when he responds to an urgent call for assistance from his former boss Ben Ferguson, who is investigating an unusual murder at the ruins of a stagecoach stop on the old Santa Fe Trail, Trent is swept into a convoluted mystery involving political assassinations, a secret paramilitary organization, a missing helicopter, two missing girls, and the inexplicable presence of a ghostly Ute Indian warrior. LAND OF MY SOJOURN spans 150 years, from the Civil War...