Malicious MIschief, by Lora YoungDelia Eastman returns home from teachers’ college with two goals: find a teaching position and sidestep her mother’s insistence on finding her a husband. But employers don’t care for women who are smarter than they. Neither do suitors. As she struggles to find her place, she discovers her sleepy Missouri River town has turned into a powder-keg of rivalry between the steamships and the railroads.
Increasingly violent vandalism on the railroad brings her face-to-face with Endy Webster, a handsome trainmaster whose investigation into the crimes leads him to the door of a prominent steamship owner—Delia’s father.
As Delia tries to clear her father’s name, she keeps tangling with Endy. He’s intelligent. He’s charming. And he’s guarding secrets. Thinking he might know more than he’s telling, Delia reluctantly agrees to partner with him to solve the mystery. With the vandalism becoming deadly, they’ll need every scrap of intelligence and logic to stay alive. Working together may not be their first choice, but it might be their last.
Malicious Mischief is a romance disguised as a mystery and sprinkled with historical facts and Biblical truth. Purchase the book HERE.
ABOUT LORA: When Lora was a little girl, she and a neighbor girl played Laura and Mary (better known as
After four years of teaching first and second graders and twenty plus years as a homeschool mom, Lora started making up stories again. But this time, she wrote them down. What started out as a secret pastime morphed into a desire to see her creations published. So she studied the writing craft, joined American Chrisitan Fiction Writers (ACFW), went to conferences, entered contests, and sent proposals. And got rejections.
The reasons for those rejections were encouraging though. Every one of them said the editor liked the story and liked her writing, but the book market was tight and the publishing house was re-structuring or cutting their fiction line entirely.
So Lora decided to publish independently. Scared but determined, she studied CreateSpace and e-pub; cover design and the ins and outs of Word. Finally, she produced her first indie pubbed book—a devotional entitled. Abiding: 30 Steps Closer.
When she’s not writing, Lora enjoys reading, hiking, and ballroom dancing. Most of all she delights in drinking chai tea lattes, and spending time with friends and family. Visit Lora's Website HERE.
