A Lady Newspaperman’’s Dilemma

1926. A world of flappers, speakeasies, and bathtub gin. A year when Alex, a cocky graduate, arrives at a small Montana newspaper as a cub reporter. She plans to use this job to jumpstart her future career with a metropolitan paper. However, those plans go awry when she’s told she’ll be covering the local bake sales and other community news. But all that changes when on her first day, a courthouse shootout thrusts her into the lead reporter’s role. It also pushes her into the path of the town’s most eligible, and handsome, cattle rancher. Riddled with self-doubt, she doesn’t know if she can handle this major story or the budding love she feels for the cowboy. That spring, an ice jam on the Yellowstone River causes a major flood. which threatens to drown the town. Only U.S. Army bombs can save it. Alex’s reporting on this bombing draws national attention and a job offer from the San Francicso Chronicle. So, she’s faced with a choice. Her dream job or her dream man.

Eileen Joyce Donovan is an award-winning author whose debut historical novel, Promises, won the Marie M Irvine Award for Literary Excellence. She is also the author of short stories and essays for numerous anthologies, including Chicken Soup for the Soul. Her work in magazine publishing and advertising helped hone her writing skills. She has taught college writing classes in Arizona, North Carolina, and New Jersey. She lives in Manhattan, New York.