Margaret has always loved stories, especially about people who came before her and events that happened in the past. That love led her to study history in college and graduate school, and after a varied career as an attorney, corporate executive and university administrator, she is writing historical fiction for children.
BOWERS AND SHADY is a historical adventure, written for a middle-grade readers, ages 10 through13. Set in the fictitious town of Green Valley, Colorado on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, soon after the American Civil War ends, it is the story of a friendship between a thirteen-year-old Iowa farm boy and an orphaned Irish girl on a mission to find a magic pocket watch.
Margaret was inspired to write the story after coming across a little book her grandmother wrote about her grandmother’s friendship with a boy named Bowers and their experiences growing up together.
She is hard at work on a sequel to BOWERS AND SHADY that takes place two years later. Shady angers powerful miners, smelter owners and the railroad bosses when she starts asking questions about the increasing number of environmental disasters in and around Green Valley. Only Bowers will listen to her, and he is far away in Iowa.