Fleeing her greedy uncle, heiress Lorena Mackenzie travels to a teaching position at Fort Reno and meets rough-hewn Ben Thorne on the way, a fortuitous meeting since she is kidnapped by the Cheyenne soon after
Laurel Collins has always wanted to write books and travel in time. Writing historical fiction allows her to do both. She is the author of a dozen traditionally-published historical romance titles, including three under her "Catherine Wyatt" pen name, and altogether, over a quarter of a million copies sold. But now age and experience have led her, as they have so many women, from romance to murder (fictional, of course), and she is currently at work on her first historical mystery, set in Gilded Age Chicago.