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In 1868 the big cattle drives are just starting to come through Kansas from Texas. Small settlements along way will benefits and also witness disasters from the herds of longhorn cattle.
Ellen Hargrove lives in a Sumner County settlement on the edge of Indian Territory. It is here a businessman has been brutally murdered. Not only does Ellen find the body, but within days, she believes James Montgomery committed the crime. But how to convince anyone? Her knowledge isn't based on evidence, but rather on her own clairvoyant visions.
Ellen has always been troubled by psychic occurrences and tries to deny her precognition, just as she did the previous autumn when she foresaw her husband's death by drowning. She has returned home to live with her parents and decide what to do with her life, certain she could have done something to prevent her husband’s death. Now, with conflicting images, and only bits of information strewn in dreams and visions, she hesitates, unsure of herself.
More murders come to light, and Ellen’s second sight about James Montgomery becomes too real to ignore. As the spring is punctuated by turbulent Kansas weather, Ellen feels obligated to prove what she senses. She searches for clues so she can convince U.S. Marshal Stamford that what she "sees" is true.
Or maybe it isn't.
Perhaps Reed Carter, the gambler who is courting her, is more involved in the area cattle rustlings than she thinks.
In 1868 the big cattle drives are just starting to come through Kansas from Texas. Small settlements along way will benefits and also witness disasters from the herds of longhorn cattle.
Ellen Hargrove lives in a Sumner County settlement on the edge of Indian Territory. It is here a businessman has been brutally murdered. Not only does Ellen find the body, but within days, she believes James Montgomery committed the crime. But how to convince anyone? Her knowledge isn't based on evidence, but rather on her own clairvoyant visions.
Ellen has always been troubled by psychic occurrences and tries to deny her precognition, just as she did the previous autumn when she foresaw her husband's death by drowning. She has returned home to live with her parents and decide what to do with her life, certain she could have done something to prevent her husband’s death. Now, with conflicting images, and only bits of information strewn in dreams and visions, she hesitates, unsure of herself.
More murders come to light, and Ellen’s second sight about James Montgomery becomes too real to ignore. As the spring is punctuated by turbulent Kansas weather, Ellen feels obligated to prove what she senses. She searches for clues so she can convince U.S. Marshal Stamford that what she "sees" is true.
Or maybe it isn't.
Perhaps Reed Carter, the gambler who is courting her, is more involved in the area cattle rustlings than she thinks.
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Writing is something I've done all my life--a habit I can't kick. I like working with words, from editing to fact finding. Expressing an idea on paper is very rewarding. With history, I am very interested in that which is unsaid in normal history books. So much falls between the cracks and some things are permanently lost. I like to dig out the crumbs and try to rebuild a whole story. I have written young adult (YA) books with contemporary stories and with historical base. Adult pieces are historical fiction (1830 - 1870), focusing on sparsely explored facts of western Americana.
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I spend a lot of time in regional libraries, studying social history nonfiction. I read between the lines and interpolate the way the "subject" may have viewed things. My fiction characters usually endure situations and learn things that a lot of people may not have considered important. It's like doing a jigsaw puzzle to get all the pieces--the history, the story, the characters-- shaped into a coherent whole.
Kae Cheatham has written for newspapers and national magazines, including American Cowboy and Pro Rodeo World. For several years she worked as an assistant editor at Athlon Sports Communications, Inc. She has also edited for Thomas Nelson and Falcon Press. Her poetry has been published in Pikestaff Forum, Redneck Review..., Crosscurrents and other literary journals.
Kae has more than a dozen published titles, two each with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Westminster Press. KANSAS DREAMER: Fury In Sumner County was released as an audio book (May 2005) by Books In Motion.
The 1997 juvenile’s biography of activist Dennis Banks (ENSLOW) was a Finalist in the 1998 Spur Awards competition. Her second contemporary young-adult book THE BEST WAY OUT (HBJ), was voted one of the top 50 social studies books for 1982 by the National Council for the Social Studies—Children's Book Council Joint Committee. Crocodiles, a middle school nonfiction book for schools and libraries, was released in 2001 from Lucent Books.
Her young-reader book, Spotted Flower and the Ponokomita is in the second printing of the second edition and is the basis for her Humanities Montana (HM) presentation "Before the Horse." She has been part of the HM Speakers Bureau since 2004. Along with writing and giving presentations, Kae freelances as an editor, layout and cover designer for print and electronic books.
Kae has more than a dozen published titles, two each with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and Westminster Press. KANSAS DREAMER: Fury In Sumner County was released as an audio book (May 2005) by Books In Motion.
The 1997 juvenile’s biography of activist Dennis Banks (ENSLOW) was a Finalist in the 1998 Spur Awards competition. Her second contemporary young-adult book THE BEST WAY OUT (HBJ), was voted one of the top 50 social studies books for 1982 by the National Council for the Social Studies—Children's Book Council Joint Committee. Crocodiles, a middle school nonfiction book for schools and libraries, was released in 2001 from Lucent Books.
Her young-reader book, Spotted Flower and the Ponokomita is in the second printing of the second edition and is the basis for her Humanities Montana (HM) presentation "Before the Horse." She has been part of the HM Speakers Bureau since 2004. Along with writing and giving presentations, Kae freelances as an editor, layout and cover designer for print and electronic books.
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- PublisherKAIOS Books
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0971428727
- ISBN 13 9780971428720
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