Linda Weaver Clarke

I'm a new author and my book is historical fiction. "Melinda and the Wild West" was a Semi-finalist for the Reader Views “Reviewers Choice Award 2007.” This novel is the first of five in a family saga. In 1896 Melinda Gamble—a very elegant, very naïve young woman from Boston—decides to give up her life of monotonous comfort for the turbulent uncertainty of the still untamed Wild West. Driven by her intense desire to make a difference in the world, Melinda takes a job as a schoolteacher in the small town of Paris, Idaho, where she comes face-to-face with a frightening bank robber, a vicious grizzly bear, and an intense blizzard that leaves her clinging to her life. But it is a ruggedly handsome rancher who challenges Melinda with the one thing for which she was least prepared—love. For those who would like to know more may visit my website at www.lindaweaverclarke.com.