After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe. Alone in the world, teen-aged Hattie is driven to prove up on her uncle's homesteading claim. For years, sixteen-year-old Hattie's been shuttled between relatives. Tired of being Hattie Here-and-There, she courageously...

"On the eve of the presidential election of 1892, Miss Hattie Davish, a traveling secretary, arrives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, to discover her new employer, the leader of a temperance group, has been murdered. As she follows a trail of cryptic death threats, she'll come face to face with a killer far more dangerous than the Demon Rum"--