Dudes Rush In

Phoebe Kelley McFarland is a restless war widow and writer living in 1952 San Francisco. She decides to quit her job and spend six months on her in-laws’ dude ranch in Tribulation, Arizona, called the H Double Bar.

She helps out in the ranch’s office and hopes to finish the novel she is working on. When some travel writers come to stay, Phoebe sees a chance to connect with professionals. But Tribulation lives up to its name. When she finds an old diary hidden in her desk, she stumbles onto secrets from the town’s past that collide with a shocking revelation of her own, sending her down a trail to both discovery and danger.

Winner of the Will Rogers Medallion Award and first place for Arizona Historical Fiction, New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards