Tough Luck Patriotic Holidays My life gets lived on

My life gets lived on the road

believed to have been wiped out years ago

and profoundly resonant realm

Worm embarks on a journey around the garden to prove them wrong

- The mixing of mythologies

Tough Luck Patriotic Holidays My life gets lived onWWA Spur Awards Finalist in the Historical Novel category In this homage to True Grit, a young woman makes a perilous journey west in 1863 in search of her gold mining father. After their mother dies, Haidie Richards and her younger brother, Boots, are put to work in an orphanage. Their father left four years earlier to find a gold mine in Colorado Territory, and since then he's sent only three letters. Still, Haidie is certain that he is alive, has