About the Book

Book: Covering Grace (The Cañon City Chronicles Book Six)

Author: Davalynn Spencer

Genre: Historical/Western Romance

Release date: July 11, 2024

Grace Hutton defied the shadow of her ranching brothers, Cale and Hugh. Always the tagalong little sister who tried to best them at everything, she signed on with the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show to prove herself. After three years of trick-riding and roping, she returns home to Cañon City, Colorado, with a world of experience, Harley the Wonder Horse, and a broken heart. It’s 1912, and the first thing she needs is work and a place to live. The last thing she needs is romance.

Dan Waite is caring for his invalid father and trying to keep their hat business in the black. Showing up in the wake of an assault at the boarding house, he helps Grace Hutton rescue the elderly owner. But he doesn’t have time for the two women, especially when Grace asks him to spend a day with the widow. Grace turns out to be more than he bargained for, and when her trick-riding ways put her in danger, he risks more than his time intervening. He risks his heart.

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About the Author

Author of the beloved, award-winning series, The Cañon City Chronicles, internationally acclaimed novelist and Will Rogers Gold Medallion winner, Davalynn Spencer writes historical Western romance set along the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. She is a Publisher’s Weekly and ECPA bestselling author, an award-winning rodeo journalist and former crime-beat reporter. As a member of the Colorado Humanities CBA Speakers Bureau, she also teaches writing workshops, plays on her church worship team, and loves bacon and chocolate. But not together.

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Harley the Wonder Horse

He was a beautiful, chocolate-colored gelding with an easy gait, and my friend called him  Harley.

“Harley the Wonder Horse,” she said, bona fide Rocky Mountain breed. “Everybody loves him.”

I sure did after a day of riding up around Brush Hollow in the hills not far from my home.

It’s a very short trip via horseback to the fictional world of my characters in the Cañon City Chronicles. I knew Harley had to be in the next and final book in the series, Covering Grace.

Grace Hutton had been hanging around in my head for three years—ever since I wrote about the younger of her twin brothers, Cale (Book 4, A Change of Scenery). He talked about his sister who could out-ride any of the cast in the Selig-Polyscope flickers being filmed in and around Cañon City.

When the older (by a minute) twin, Hugh, got his own story (Book 5, Hope is Built), he also mentioned their little sister, Grace. How could they not, with her never-say-die approach to life, and stick-like-flypaper perseverance. When they were all growing up, she was never far behind the boys, showing she was just as good as they were.

Trouble was, she was better, and her skills earned her a place in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. That’s where she met Harley, and when she came home, he came with her.

And there you have it, the story-behind-the-story of Harley the Wonder Horse. Now understand that real-life Harley is not a trick-riding horse, but I have a long-time friend, Linda Scholtz, who is a real-life trick rider. I’ve watched her do some mighty fine stunts, so fine that she instructs would-be trick riders how to be real trick riders.

A few other things from my life play into this book, like the setting. Is there anywhere more beautiful than the Rocky Mountains as a storm blows in quicker than your breath? Or the aspens that shiver in the slightest breeze and pour gold down the gullies and ravines in autumn? And what of sitting before a crackling fire in the woodstove or fireplace as fall runs in ahead of winter?

Join me for a ride in the final book of The Cañon City Chronicles, Covering Grace. It may just be more than you expected.

Interview with Davalynn

How do you create your main characters? 

The main characters in my stories usually wander into my mind and hang around awhile, piquing my curiosity about who and what they are. Grace Hutton, the heroine in Covering Grace, moved in on me a couple of years ago in Book 4 of the Cañon City Chronicles, A Change of Scenery. As the little sister of the hero, Cale Hutton, she’d left home to ride in Bill Cody’s Wild West shows, and Cale talks about what a hand she is when it comes to horses. Book 5 of the series is the story of Cale’s twin, Hugh. He also mentions Grace, and we meet her face-to-face in the closing scene of that book, Hope Is Built. By the time I started writing Grace’s story, I knew she had come home off the road and brought a horse with her. A very special horse. However, she just didn’t want to fit back into the family as the little tag-along sister, and boy howdy, she doesn’t!

What do you like to do when you’re not writing?

When I’m not writing, I like to work in the garden, walk early in the morning, take pictures that I use in my weekly blog and newsletter, and read. I also sing and play the keyboard on my church worship team and I love the music.

What does your family think of your writing?

Over the years, my children have come to see me as “the author.” Quite often someone asks my son, “Is your mom the writer?” It’s become a family joke that he can’t go anywhere without someone mentioning his mom. My daughter often serves as one of my beta readers and understands that I really do want her to have a critical eye. My husband, George Casias, is extremely supportive of my writing and understands why I spend hours at my desk with my head in the computer. As the associate pastor of our church, he is a writer in his own right. We both love spending time together, but we both value independent time to ourselves as well.

What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating your books?

I didn’t expect to love research so much. Writing historical fiction requires a great deal of research for facts about the era and setting in which you are placing your fictional characters. My Cañon City Chronicles series is quite popular in the actual Cañon City, Colorado. Residents enjoy reading about the history of their town and the books are constant sellers to tourists who stop in at the Main Street stores.

Where can readers find out more about you and your books?

A bit of my personal history and all my books are showcased on my website, www.davalynnspencer.com, with links to various booksellers for paperback, e-books, and audio. I also have an Amazon author page at https://amazon.com/author/davalynnspencer which lists my books. For a close-up look at my life, readers enjoy my weekly inspirational blog (accessed via my website) and my behind-the-scenes newsletters which come out quarterly. Sign-up for the newsletter offers a free e-book and can be accessed here. (Please use the following link.) https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h3d8g8

Blog Stops

Stories By Gina, August 8 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, August 8

Holly’s Book Corner, August 9

Texas Book-aholic, August 10

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, August 11 (Author Interview)

Locks, Hooks and Books, August 12

Back Porch Reads, August 13 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, August 14

Pause for Tales, August 15

For the Love of Literature, August 16 (Author Interview)

Devoted To Hope, August 16

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, August 17

Artistic Nobody, August 18 (Author Interview)

For Him and My Family, August 19

Connie’s History Classroom , August 20

Cover Lover Book Review, August 21

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Davalynn is giving away the grand prize package of a $50 Amazon gift card and a signed copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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