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Vacancy joins The Dust Series! Read all the latest plaudits and praise the second book in The Dust Series, Vacancy, is garnering, from reviews to interviews.

Vacancy, Unveiled: A struggling single mother and a suspicious widow both have a habit of hiding from hard truths, until a brutal tragedy in an unforgiving Texas town forces them to face what they’re hiding, and fill the vacancy in their own hearts. New fiction in The Dust Series. Based on a true story.

My characters will always be with me, even after Vacancy is published, progressing through joy, pain, and growth, just like I do. So I wrote a letter to my characters.

Just when you get used to land, lots of land, and starry skies above, Texas shows you something else. Take a Panhandle road trip in photos.

When you’re researching historical fiction, it would be so much easier to rev up the Time Machine. Here's how I did without time travel.