Dirt Road Books: 5 books

When Sam Marconi packs up her home and leaves Las Vegas behind her, she pictures an idyllic life waiting for her and her daughter, Beth, in Bitterroot, Idaho. After saving for years, Sam finally has enough to chase her dream of owning and operating a small roadside motel. When she arrives, she finds...

It’s 1977, and Connie Fortune has an easy, freewheeling life as a wildlife photographer and illustrator. A new contract brings her to the Little Dip valley in Oregon to track down a rare bird, but a clash with Sylvie Garoul, the valley’s owner and matriarch of the mysterious Garoul family, and...

Vera Kennedy, widow of Professor James Kennedy, wants to be a scientist, but in Victorian Boston, that isn’t an option for women. Nevertheless, after assisting her husband in the laboratory with his experiments, she has learned everything she could through his unintended tutelage. After his death,...

Sex, adventure, and wild rides—some literal, some journeys of the mind and heart. There's something for everyone here. How about a mechanical bull at a country-and-western bar in 1980s Amsterdam? An army jeep in Vietnam in the 1960s? A Chinese pirate ship far out in the Pacific in the 1930s? A hot...

Outlaw Torri Rendego, Captain of the Far Seek, travels to the mining colony of Newburg on Old Earth.  Along with her crew, she has to smuggle out rare black opals, in fulfillment of their latest contract, which skirts the edges of legality. Everything goes as planned until Torri discovers...