Why is the mysterious mustang colt circling the tombstone on the outskirts of Gold Hill, Nevada? What haunts this small, wild horse that has been sighted for over a hundred years? Twelve-year-old Paige, and her best friend, Meggie are determined to find out, but a teenage drifter named Brooks involves them in an even more perilous web of high-stakes danger and intrigue. Is this ranch hand a mustanger involved in an illegal horse smuggling operation intent on capturing the wild horses? The Ghostowners soon find out.
When Meggie and Paige and a kid named Johnny uncover the missing diary in the ghost town of Bodie, California, they have no idea what secrets had been buried for over a hundred years. Bodie--once known as the Wildest Mining Camp in the West--comes to life through the words of the unknown girl whose words, Goodbye God, I'm going to Bodie have become a legend. The Ghostowners set out to discover Anna's secrets, but uncover a whole lot more than they had bargained for.
Gritty, hilarious, and sometimes heartbreaking, the correspondence of cowgirls Calamity Wronsky and Belle Bendall articulates the strength, humor, passion, and compassion that are the essence of women's lives - north, south, east, or west. In the spirit of Thelma and Louise on horseback, this eclectic correspondence speaks to the frontier woman in all of us with a mix of letters, poems, pie charts, and even new lyrics to use with favorite old songs. From the stuff cowgirl dreams are made of (a guy who looks like Clint Black and a new palomino pony) to the reality of women's lives ("A penny saved is probably just gonna be borrowed by somebody like your little sister Beverly for gettin' herself unpregnant. . ".), these women of the West impart wisdom and truth with a sharp-shooting cowgirl twist. Get a glimpse of Calamity during "The Kennedy Years" when she and Belle were dating Bobby-Ted and Jack, or hear her tale that familiarly begins, "Hell, Belle, you'd think with all my worldliness in terms of men I'd a been wise to him from the start..". Soak in Calamity's Advice to the Lovelorn, and learn why Elizabeth Taylor and Whoopi Goldberg are cowgirls and Jerry Hall and Madonna are not. Dear Calamity... Love, Belle is an epistolary novel that proves women really do know life's little instructions better than men.
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