1890. The lawless New Mexico Territory is overrun by criminals who steal money and land without consequence, and everyone carries a gun.
In Montaña Roja, robberies threaten Fred Harvey’s newest Harvey House restaurant. Disguised as a Harvey hostess, undercover Pinkerton agent Clare ventures west, risking exposure at every turn as she searches for answers the law won’t pursue—relying only on her instincts and her derringer to survive.
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I’m happy to see so many writers organizations joining the Authors Guild in urging publishers to relinquish at least some of their Anthropic claims to the authors. The relationship between an author and their publisher has always depended on trust and an understanding of mutual benefit. The prestige and success
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You could laugh all the way through this book at the sheer Keystone Kops ignorance and idiocy of the DOGE punks Elon Musk and Donald Trump unleashed on the federal government in 2025. The typical Project 2025 person was a middle-aged lawyer who’d spent his career in and around the