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My first novel Blackbelly, published in 2005 by Bridge Works Publishing, is set in central Idaho where I spent much of my childhood. In 2006 my second novel Mineral Spirits was published, also by Bridge Works Publishing, and is set in remote Mineral County, Montana.

Blackbelly has earned starred reviews from Kirkus Reviews and Library Journal, and was named one of the top five novels of 2006 by the Portsmouth Harold. Mineral Spirits also received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, and both novels were selected by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association as "Best of the Northwest" titles.

My latest novel, Windless Summer, is now on sale.]]> female Forsyth, Montana 1966/04/08 2458487 6219362 0385341873 9780385341875 20 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6219362.Windless_Summer 3.36 56
In the town of Rocket, Washington—a summer playground for windsurfers and tourists—a windless summer ignites fear as businesses and residents move away. Rocket’s motel, run by a lonely widower named Tom Jemmet, is hard hit. And Tom has demons of his own: memories of a beautiful wife that still haunt him, and a troubled young daughter whose retreat into a silent world confounds her father and sparks whispers in town.

Swirling around Tom are lives much like his own, townspeople yearning for wind but also for hope, even love. Charlene, a mail clerk, helps care for Tom’s daughter while a secret gnaws at her heart...Lauren, the town vet, has fallen for Tom, who barely notices...and newspaper editor Hap is hatching a foolish plan to save his town.

That’s when a miracle—or something like it—strikes Tom’s run-down motel. Guests who stay in Room 6 begin experiencing sudden acts of fate, both terrible and great. But while tourists descend on Rocket and the the town shows new signs of life, the truth about Tom’s motel and the death of his wife—as well as the secret hopes and fears of everyone around him—are exposed in ways that are both surprising and inevitable...]]> 97071 3.68 91 28 166843 1882593987 9781882593989 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172350793m/166843.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166843.Mineral_Spirits_A_Novel 3.95 19 97071 3.68 91 28 166842 1882593979 9781882593972 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172350792m/166842.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166842.Blackbelly_A_Novel 4.50 16 97071 3.68 91 28 7313879 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7313879-windless-summer 0.0 0 97071 3.68 91 28