The Journey to Faithful

For the past 20 years, our family has had a second home in the mountains of Montana. When I’m there, it’s easy to imagine this country as it was 100 years ago or more – raw, wild, and untamed.

Five years ago I had an idea for a story set in Yellowstone National Park, a place of such beauty and yet such peculiarity that it is unique on this planet. I wrote a story about a young girl who finds herself in Yellowstone at the turn of the last century.

Maggie came alive for me. Her story is one of love and loss, of growing up, of discovering family secrets, of learning to become an independent woman at a time when girls and women were treated as property.

I don’t want to spoil the surprises woven through my book, except to say that there is a central mystery, and a romance, and the landscape is, almost, a character in the story.

I’ve also begun to write a sequel that follows my character, Maggie, back to her high-society roots in Newport, and then returns her to Yellowstone, which she has come to call home.

In my blog (www.kidswriterjfox.blogspot.com) I’ll recount more of Maggie’s journeys and my experiences writing the novel, so please tag along.