j. risdal

Dreaming of Grass Valley, a truer than life novel of the lives, loves, adventures, and hijinks of a couple of seasoned cowboys, a wolf dog, and a mail-order bride all trying to make their future in a California gold camp.

When Big Jim von Reinhoff and his lifelong friend, Maximum Epps, decide to follow their dream of building a ranch in the pine-studded hills of Grass Valley, they are thrown together by chance with a mail-order bride from St. Louis and an escaped Apache pet wolf dog named Dee-Oh-Gee. Through Indian attacks, broken hearts, hardships, dangers, and unforeseen adventures, they develop a special relationship that keeps them together and, despite it all, they never lose sight of the dream.

This riveting tale and revealing story will stir the hard core, historical, western buff, while capturing the allure and fascination of the romance reader.