Trade Paperback Mystery
ISBN 0-9661879-9-7, 284 pages
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WHAT? New widow Carrie Culpeper McCrite, ignoring warnings from friends and family that "older women don't do that," leaves her sheltered life in the city.

WHERE? Carrie moves to land in the Arkansas Ozarks that she inherited from her husband.

WHEN? Today.

WHY? She needs to be someone – to prove she's a capable woman who can take care of herself. Now she's in the middle of her own woods where she can do strong things, interesting things. People will call her by her first name. They will not think of her as the "poor widow whose husband died in that awful shooting accident."

HOW? Well at first Carrie herself isn't sure. Then she meets an Ozarks neighbor, JoAnne Harrington. Man-hating JoAnne certainly provides an example of female independence. And there are strong things to do when a stone quarry threatens to turn part of their beloved valley into heaps of gravel. The two women and their neighbors band together to fight for their valley. But...someone decides JoAnne must die.

NEXT? Grieving over JoAnne’s death, Carrie feels compelled to uncover and destroy the mystery and darkness now swirling in the valley. That's what a strong woman would do. Then Carrie's new neighbor, retired Kansas City Police Major, Henry King, warns her that she, and not JoAnne, may have been the killer's real target.

But that's ridiculous – isn't it? And Henry is hiding secrets of his own.

How strong can Carrie be? How much danger can she survive? It's time to find out.