Acknowledgements

I have been published in various genres, both fiction and non-fiction for twenty-five years. In that time, I have met so many authors and readers, I wouldn’t know where to start thanking them all. Just know I wouldn’t have been able to do this without you.

To my parents: I wonder what you would have thought? I wish you were still here to see my accomplishments.

And I have to mention Al, Tess, Linda, Michele, Teresa, Jackie, and Peg.

Alone. Always alone. Alone because she’d killed him. She was a murderess, and the worst part was her remorse was the size of a flake of gold.

Married to a man she didn’t choose, Bertha Woods is unprepared for her husband’s cruelty turning her from a sweet, innocent girl who is happiest out on the farm, to a cold-hearted, lonely, society harridan. Always thinking of her first love, for twenty years she bears his scams, beatings, and hatred until she takes matters into her own hands.

Can she return to being the kind-hearted, happy woman she once was? Will she ever find love and happiness with the horse trainer who enters her life?

Travel back to Deadwood, South Dakota in 1879, and meet the characters who live and work with Bertha Woods, The Banker’s Wife.