Sage Cane's House of Grace and Favor

by Christy Hubbard, C.C. Harrison

Overview

Author C.C. Harrison writing as Christy Hubbard

Women needed guts to live in the Old West and Sage Cane had an abundance. Finding herself penniless and in debt after the death of her father, then abandoned at the altar by a fortune-hunting scoundrel, she headed for Colorado gold country to take possession of the hotel she inherited from her Aunt Hannah "Honey" Wild. When she arrives, she is shocked to discover the hotel is really a bordello called Wild Mountain Honey Pleasure Palace. She announces her decision to close it down, but meets resistance from Bridger Norwood who is convinced it has to remain open in order to keep the peace in the rough and tumble mining town.

But Sage wasn't born to let adversity keep her down or men control her destiny. It was a town of, by and for men with nothing for women. Not a slip of silk or froth of lace could be found anywhere outside the bordello. While the men mined for gold, drank in the saloons, gambled at the card tables, or visited Wild Mountain Honey, the wives were left behind to scrabble together a home in tents, huts and dugouts. That is, until Sage Cane secretly opened a charm school to teach them how to dress for adornment, whisper into a man's ear, and practice the fine art of seduction.

SAGE CANE'S HOUSE OF GRACE AND FAVOR vividly brings to life the hardships and dangers women faced in the rugged frontier towns that catered to men. Secrets are revealed and secrets are kept, but women did what they had to do to survive in this story of a town forced to rise to the standards of its women.

Christy Hubbard introduces the most unforgettable charmer since Scarlett O'Hara in a wild and wonderful tale of girl power in the Old West!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162967712
Publisher:	Speaking Volumes
Publication date:	12/11/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

C.C. Harrison (aka Christy Hubbard) is an award-winning author of mysteries and American West fiction. She knew she was going to be an writer when she got her first library card as a beginning reader. Since then her work has been honored both regionally and nationally for her short stories, articles, essays, and novels.

"I write books about ordinary women having extraordinary experiences. Women who find themselves facing adversity because of someone's mistake, sometimes their own. If they hear thumping in the attic or a creepy noise in the basement, they don't scream and run away. Instead they check it out. They may be afraid, but they do it anyway. That's courage. This, of course, gets them in deeper trouble."

Her first book, The Charmstone, is a mystery set on the Navajo Indian Reservation where she lived as a VISTA Volunteer. Tony Hillerman called it "An important book!"

Her recent book Death by G-String, a Coyote Canyon Ladies Ukulele Club mystery is the 2019 Colorado Humanities Book Award Mystery winner.

"I like writing books set in small towns, the kind of small towns people run away to or hide out in. Small town secrets and misbehavior are so much more intriguing. I know. I've lived in them."

Harrison can be found in the desert, the mountains, or some far flung corner of the Southwest. She is currently living in the White Mountains.