Maggie's Claim: A Western Romance

She had 160 acres, a forged lease, and nowhere left to turn — until the blacksmith.

Tiger Mountain, Creek Nation, Indian Territory, 1894. Daniel Mercer, a widowed blacksmith raising six-year-old Lucy, sets up his smithy in Creek country looking for a fresh start. Maggie Tiger — 26, Muscogee (Creek), mission-school educated, and sharper than anyone expects — is fighting to save her family's allotment from Silas Grady, a land grafter with a forged lease and a smile.

Maggie can read the forgery. Daniel's ledgers can prove it. But in a territory where the courts listen to white men, they'll have to stand together — through suspicion from both their peoples, a brother's warning, a night of fire, and a love neither of them planned.

A hopeful, big-hearted western romance about land, family, and the courage to claim your own future.

• 302 pages, 24 chapters

• 12 full-page illustrations

• A clean, family-friendly read