Douglas Birk

Sterling Orphans Audible

Sterling Orphans, the second book in the Cactus Creek series, has just been released for Audible. Again, Douglas Birk and Jennifer Groberg have teamed together to produce the book. I think they get better all the time, which makes sense since they are able to know the characters and the storyline more thoroughly with each book.

In Sterling Orphans, most of the characters listeners came to love in Second-Choice Bride reappear, but the book features four characters: Will Hudson, Rose Sterling, Gray Fox, and Letty Sterling Sawyer. Needing to leave Sterling Orphan House at eighteen, Rose Sterling is to take toddler, Katie Hudson, to her father who works on the King Ranch in New Mexico Territory. She thought her biggest adventure would be getting there on the wagon train, but she was wrong. In the meantime, Will Hudson can’t believe he has a daughter. His wife left him for a gambler, and he’s been trying to cope ever since. He doesn’t make the best impression on Rose at first, but he sees how much his little daughter loves and depends on her. Can he adjust to fatherhood, or will he always be a disappointment to the women in his life? Then, Letty Sawyer is terrified of Indians since they killed her adoptive parents. When she ends up on the King Ranch, can Gray Fox show her that all Indians aren’t alike, and he would protect her with his life?

The dual narration is working well for this series, and I appreciate Doug and Jen's hard work. In fact, they're already busy producing the next book in the series, Poor Relation. The print and ebook should be out by the first week in May, and the audible will follow soon after ACX approves it, which unfortunately is now often taking 6 - 8 weeks or more after we submit it. 

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