Reputation is everything to a woman and her team of detectives in 1861 St. Louis.

Reputation has arrived!

I have learned a lesson: Get books before scheduling a launch party. Today is August 30, and the book launch party at Middle Ground Books in Emporia, Kansas, is tomorrow, August 31 at 2pm. The books arrived today at 10:41 a.m.

Needless to say, I have been a total wreck all week.

But the books are here in time to party!