What a week!!!
First of all, I’m writing this on Sunday so everything I say ‘has happened’ when you read this on Thursday, hasn’t happened yet.
But it probably will.
I’m having very minor (I hope) knee surgery on Tuesday, which means…two days ago.
I should be ensconced (cool word) in my recliner with no interesting moving for days (or forever possibly) healing.
I also had a book come out Tuesday….so
Into the Sunset
has released.
I love this book. It’s book #3 in the “A Western Light Series” and I feel like I wrapped this series up in grand style.
I did something I’ve never done before. I have a section of the book that’s a courtroom drama.
Well, if you read my books you know most of my drama comes from gunfire.
So, this isn’t really my jam.
But I also really like to try different things. Challenge myself. And I thought it came out really well.
I mean, we all know courtroom drama works right? Hello John Grisham….he’s done well with it.
So Into the Sunset is Ginny, who begins book #1, Chasing the Horizon, escaping from an insane asylum.
She’s ready now to come out of hiding and face her wretched husband in a court of law and prove she’s sane.
Of course I couldn’t leave out all the gunfire. Where’s the fun in that?
So Dakota Harlan, the wagon master from book #1,
is back.
We also get to spend time with Kat and Sebastian from book #2
And Maeve O’Toole, who came west on the wagon train and kinda liked Dakota until the scum bucket, hard-hearted, back stabbing polecat helped bury her father when he died in an accident, then insisted the wagon train roll on. Maeve’s rage isn’t fair, but she had a lot of anger and she needed to aim it somewhere.
Now Dakota has been drafted to help protect Ginny when she emerges from hiding…Dakota is a tough man and good with a gun.
Maeve has been hired to come along because Ginny’s daughter now has three small children. They need a babysitter.
Oddly enough. Dakota does a lot of babysitting, and Maeve ends up having to shoot someone.
Come along for the exciting conclusion of A Western Light Series…Into the Sunset.
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I bet it was fun to write the courtroom drama.
Hope your healing goes well. Happy Book Release!
It’s tender Denise, but healing okay
I can totally relate to your being “down and out” for the time being. I am 76 and a couple of years ago I was up on our property up north transplanting sweet potato slips when my husband asked me to walk up the slight hill on our property to open the gate so he and our neighbor could take the backhoe over to the neighbor’s place to work on something. So I started up the hill (wearing my garden shoes, which have no traction), got to the gate, opened it, and when I turned around my foot slipped and then hit a big rock and down I went. When the volunteer fire department got there they stabilized my ankle, which I had broken in 3 places, and called an ambulance. After calling myself all kinds of stupid, I spent a few weeks confined to reading and crocheting and being waited upon. It was actually a nice respite for our hot July temps here in AZ.
I will pray for your recovery and that you, too, might enjoy a bit of a respite from the daily grind.
Karin, you have no idea how much I’m flinching for you.
Three breaks? An ankle isn’t even that BIG.
You should work on your story though.
At least have a bull charging you.
I’ve had several falls resulting in broken bones, but not surgeries. I am fortunate regarding that, but I need to have cataract surgery soon. I’m not looking forward to that.
I have had two minor surgeries in my life…and I realize now I’ve never really had to think about it for any length of time. I knew about this surgery for over a month…non emergency. And it drove me CRAZY nightmares, fretting.
I’ve had two cataracts done and it’s not bad.
Good morning Mary! I hope each day brings healing to your knee. Your imagination never ceases to amaze me and how you translate that to words is beyond me!
Good morning! I hope your knee is healing well. I’ve had four surgeries (2 C-sections, gall bladder, and exploratory), and I’ve gotten sick from the anesthesia every single time, even with drugs that were supposed to prevent it! I pray that I never have to have another one. I did have a very minor procedure done last week to remove a growth from my eyelid, but it only took about 45 minutes and most of that was waiting for the numbing liquid to take effect. For about two days after it looked like I had been punched in the eye, but it’s healing nicely and I’m not having pain like I was when the growth kept rubbing every time I closed my eyes.
I guess I handle anesthesia ok. I’ve had very little of it and come out fine. Sorry it makes you sick. Whatever makes it hardest!
I have had vein issues and several times have had surgery. I have also developed neuropathy and stenosis, not to mention carpal tunnel. Life is good.
Debra when I get together now with friends it is ALLLL medical updates and aches and pains
This series sounds interesting, thank you very much!
Hi bridgette! You’re welcome
Good Morning! A few years back I had to have surgery on a torn ligament by my knee. It took me awhile to heal but I blamed it on getting older. I hope you have a fast recovery. This final book was so much fun to read I could barely put it down. I like the fact that you brought in characters from a previous series. The reader gets to see a glimpse of what has been happening to those characters. Great story!
Was it through an injury, Deb? Because mine just seems to we wearing out. At least if I’d been bucked off a bull at a rodeo, there’d be a REASON
Mine just wore out I think, no accident or injury.
No surgeries yet but I am starting to ‘creak” when I get up. Ha
I long for the good old days when CREAKING was my biggest problem!!!
My latest hospital stay made me feel really old. I was diagnosed with high altitude sickness after going to Laramie Wyoming for my oldest sister’s funeral. Three days later, I was in the hospital with COVID and pneumonia. I am so tired. I feel much better but fall asleep so often.
Oh My Gosh. altitude, covid and pneumonia, plus a funeral. Whoa….a week to try and just forget.
My Cowboy Husband got altitude sickness once in the mountains. And I got pink eye. Both of us just wanted to go home.
Best wishes to you for a speedy recovery. The new release sounds especially interesting with the added touch of courtroom drama. I enjoy your historical settings and intriguing characters. I have had several surgeries but one I am especially dreading in future would be cataracts. Was at annual exam yesterday and eye doctor said getting a little issue but not time yet. My peers aren’t that old and two have already had that done. ?.
I’ve had both cataracts done, Catherine. It’s pretty slick. My grandma had it done forever ago and she had to lie flat on her back for TEN DAYS with sandbags on both sides of her head. So compared to that!!!
Oh, this book is going to be good!! I have the first two books, and I’ve decided to wait to read them until I get the third, however I get the third, lol!!
Trudy, you’re so PATIENT. I can never wait. But I do love diving into a whole series at once.
looks interesting
I had knee replacement surgery four years ago. I pray you heal very fast. This book sounds very interesting.
linda, I put off even going to the doctor forever afraid it’d result in a knee replacement. I dodged that at least…for now1
Yep I have been there. I have had two hip replacements and a total shoulder replacement. Also a couple of back surgeries but still have a lot of back issue and hip issues so I guess you can say I am getting old and spent to much time working in a factory. I hope all is well with your knee.
Quilt Lady, is shoulder replacement kind of new? My mother in law had such terrible pain in her shoulders, and she’d have both knees and both hips done. But there was nothing to do for her shoulders. This was fifteen years ago.
Happy healing Mary! Hope all is well!
Thanks, Lynn I for sure don’t heal as fast as I used to!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have had hip replacement after falling on the playground at work and this summer I had neck surgery for the placement of a titanium plate. Welcome to the bionic age!
Wow titanium. It does make you sound very space agey.
This book sounds like a RESOUNDING end to the series & I can’t wait to see what happens.
Thanks, Sarah. I think it’s a lot of fun.
Hope you have a speedy recovery. So far I’ve not had to have any surgeries and feel blessed for that. This looks like a really good book.
Good luck avoiding the scalpel, Alice. I ended up loving Into the Sunset. I hope you do, too
Hi Congratulations on your new release!! Your book sounds and looks very intriguing!! I hope you are doing good and that your heal speedily and nicely. I have had different surgeries, my thyroid, a hysterectomy and a disc fusion, of which they added some titanium screws and also a little piece of a cadaver. That was years ago, I sure didn’t like wearing the neck brace both for my thyroidectomy and for my disc fusion. But Thank God I healed well. Actually my thyroid was pretty much removed all the way and would you know it grew back and my thyroid has been normal ever since. I had to take meds for over 20 years and now I have not had to take any meds for a 10 years, my thyroid went from High to Low and then after it grew back to normal, so I just pray it stays that way. Have a great day and a great rest of the week.
A cadaver??? gulp. And yet, here you are so…. cool.
No annoying surgery indicating I am getting old, but oh so many other signs. Like yesterday I was sweeping the kitchen and the broom handle hit the top of my hand just where my finger hooks on and all of a sudden it turned black and blue just under the skin along with a little scrap. Geeez. It didn’t even hit that hard.
oh but I do hope things heal very well and you are back on your feet soon. I will most likely have knee surgery at the beginning of 2025. Sigh.
OH YES. Although I was a kid at that time it happened I took a very bad fall down some stairs and it ended up it was so bad I had to have surgery to remove the damaged Kidney the surgeon was Indian and explained everything to us by drawings and writing it down on paper actually if you think about it something like that should happen in adult years not as a very Young kid it makes me feel old and annoyed that it did happen LOL.
It sounds like a really interesting series. Thank you for sharing.
Yes, I have had four. I took the quad tendons off my both of my kneecaps at two different times. I have had two surgeries on both knees because the tears were so extensive they could not be repaired the first time. The second quad tendon tear required a cadaver graph put in during the second surgery. I was in a straight leg brace for months. Thank you so much for sharing. God bless you.
I have had knee surgery years ago when my son was 5 years old. He is 21 now so it has been a while. I tore my knee up pretty bad, so I also had to have physical therapy which I think is another word for torture. Hope you recover quickly. The arthritis throughout my spine though is what truly makes me feel old somedays.
I do hope you are healing well and not in any pain.
Age can be so unfair for what it can do to our bodies. I plug along, usually unable to keep up with my husband (I am refusing to have my knee messed with but am not sure how long I can hold out. ). Now his hips are bothering him and I am the one having to slow down and wait up. There are trips we put off for various reasons that now he feels he can’t manage. I have been advising those I know to travel when you first retire. It is so tempting to tackle those projects that just “need” to be don and have been waiting for you. They will wait longer. Travel while you are still in relatively good health and can still get around and enjoy yourself.