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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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“No plot survives first contact with the writing of any of my novels.” –Dana Stabenow (with apologies to Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder) At the moment I’m working on the second Harvey Girl novel, The Iron Trail. At the behest of my editor I wrote a six-page outline