Roan

About the Book

Philadelphia born and bred, Mattie McCoy, was sassy, cool, confident and sexy.  Her former career of repossessing autos kept her mentally and physically in shape for sleuthing in an early twentieth-century, Victorian mansion.  She didn't need anyone, nor did she want anyone, to keep her from her search for her grandfather's fortune.

But then, there was that one obstacle; that Texas tin star and his two deputies.  Well, that cowboy was just like any other man.  He could easily be seduced and lied to.  He had his tiny brain in his Levis, but Mattie knew she had what was needed to melt those cold, ice-blue slits on his bronzed face.

And that dark, foreboding, dreary mansion was just plain evil.  It held too many mysteries, too many secret passageways and the aroma of impending death.  What clues could be found prowling around in there?  And what did that sheriff know that he wasn't telling?

All Mattie and her friends wanted was a little adventure.  They got that and a whole lot more.

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Liz Baker has lived in Nevada and now in New Mexico and enjoys reading and writing about the West, its development during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, the native people, the wildlife and the vast and natural, timeless, almost theatrical beauty.  Her poetry displays a vivid palette of her profound love of nature and the urgency for us to realize the importance of other living things to humans.  In some of her writing, she expresses not only the beauty of nature, but the need for human development of a fundamental understanding, appreciation and passion to preserve what we can only visualize and wonder about. 

Her fiction novel, ROAN, set in a little West Texas town, will appeal to anyone who enjoys curling up in an overstuffed chair, to savor a good story about the lives of everyday people today, entwined with a little mystery, and a hint of pendulous romance.

Ms Baker is an avid equestrian, defender of wildlife and conservationist and now has returned to her beloved West to retire and embrace her writing career.