Montana

If you are learning about my work for the first time, welcome! I know it can be hard to trust a new author, so I’m going to be providing a few excerpts from Home Is Where the Heart Is. In this one, photojournalist CJ Beck has just seen her new … Read More

Explore five short stories in this sweet romance short story anthology. This collection contains: “Love on Willow Creek”: Desperate to overcome her past, Bridget returns to her home town. But will her high school enemy crash her business and doom the second chance love that’s possible? “California Sunshine”: Santa Cruz, … Read More

I am so pleased with the initial reaction to Leaving Home, book 3 in the Rocky Mountain Front series. This is Dylan’s and Megan’s story, but I’ll let some of the reviewers tell you more … “Megan finds herself starting over, leaving North Carolina, she lands in Montana where the … Read More

On the Rocky Mountain Front, about two hours south of the Canadian border, lies the small town of Choteau, Montana, population 1,691. The county seat, the town is most famous for dinosaurs and David Letterman. Like a lot of small towns, it has a mixture of old businesses, some of … Read More

Today is release day for Second Chance Christmas. As is appropriate after Thanksgiving, I am thankful for many people who have collaborated in the creation and publicity for this book. Julie Sturgeon and Tara Gelsomino from Crimson Romance (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) have been stalwarts for a long … Read More

Second Chance Christmas, my latest Christmas romance set in my town of Missoula, Montana, hits the shelves on November 27, 2017! This book has a new twist. I’ve upped the intrigue. Not only do Reese and Findlay need to find their way to each other, but they need to figure … Read More

DH and I decided to escape the smoke a bit and go to the movies. We chose “Wind River,” set on the Native American reservation for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho (traditional enemies) Native American tribes in Wyoming. It is an excellent movie, but definitely not a romance. The … Read More

About 27 miles long, Flathead Lake is the largest freshwater lake after the Great Lakes. It’s a mecca for hot Montanans in the summer.   My DH and I often drive up the west side of the lake on our way to Glacier National Park. The views are beautiful, and … Read More

Travel to Yellowstone–Not without Adventure My DH and I had been looking forward to our camping trip to Yellowstone National Park for months. It’s the 100th anniversary of our national parks, and we were eager to travel to one before the year ended. Two years ago our trip had been … Read More

Love on the Wind by Casey Dawes Mountain Vines Publishing Releasing on October 12, 2016 All Becky wanted to do when she was growing up was to get out of Hardin, Montana, a small town with a conservative bent close to the Battle of the Little Big Horn National Monument. … Read More