Fiction

Patti working in winter

My short stories and novels may be called fiction, but my real life feeds them and gives them truth.

"Eating Gravel"
The story of a woman and a horse struggling to turn loose of their fears and learn to trust again.
Click here to read a chapter

"Rough Stuff"
Private detective Sorrel Quinn has an ex-boyfriend trying to take her ranch, an alcoholic father obsessed with Samurai movies and a missing client whose friends keep turning up dead.
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"Above Snakes"
In 1860 a wagon train headed for Oregon ran into a few problems... a novel based on actual events.
Click here to read the first two chapters

Short Stories have appeared in
"No Place for a Lady: Western Stories by Women"
and
"Fishtrap Anthology"
Click here to read the story called
"Saddle Pals"

New Rope