About the Book

Book: Covering Grace (The Cañon City Chronicles Book Six)

Author: Davalynn Spencer

Genre: Historical/Western Romance

Release date: July 11, 2024

Grace Hutton defied the shadow of her ranching brothers, Cale and Hugh. Always the tagalong little sister who tried to best them at everything, she signed on with the Buffalo Bill Cody Wild West Show to prove herself. After three years of trick-riding and roping, she returns home to Cañon City, Colorado, with a world of experience, Harley the Wonder Horse, and a broken heart. It’s 1912, and the first thing she needs is work and a place to live. The last thing she needs is romance.

Dan Waite is caring for his invalid father and trying to keep their hat business in the black. Showing up in the wake of an assault at the boarding house, he helps Grace Hutton rescue the elderly owner. But he doesn’t have time for the two women, especially when Grace asks him to spend a day with the widow. Grace turns out to be more than he bargained for, and when her trick-riding ways put her in danger, he risks more than his time intervening. He risks his heart.

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About the Author

Author of the beloved, award-winning series, The Cañon City Chronicles, internationally acclaimed novelist and Will Rogers Gold Medallion winner, Davalynn Spencer writes historical Western romance set along the Front Range of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. She is a Publisher’s Weekly and ECPA bestselling author, an award-winning rodeo journalist and former crime-beat reporter. As a member of the Colorado Humanities CBA Speakers Bureau, she also teaches writing workshops, plays on her church worship team, and loves bacon and chocolate. But not together.

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Harley the Wonder Horse

He was a beautiful, chocolate-colored gelding with an easy gait, and my friend called him Harley.

“Harley the Wonder Horse,” she said, bona fide Rocky Mountain breed. “Everybody loves him.”

I sure did after a day of riding up around Brush Hollow in the hills not far from my home.

It’s a very short trip via horseback to the fictional world of my characters in the Cañon City Chronicles. I knew Harley had to be in the next and final book in the series, Covering Grace.

Grace Hutton had been hanging around in my head for three years—ever since I wrote about the younger of her twin brothers, Cale (Book 4, A Change of Scenery). He talked about his sister who could out-ride any of the cast in the Selig-Polyscope flickers being filmed in and around Cañon City.

When the older (by a minute) twin, Hugh, got his own story (Book 5, Hope is Built), he also mentioned their little sister, Grace. How could they not, with her never-say-die approach to life, and stick-like-flypaper perseverance. When they were all growing up, she was never far behind the boys, showing she was just as good as they were.

Trouble was, she was better, and her skills earned her a place in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. That’s where she met Harley, and when she came home, he came with her.

And there you have it, the story-behind-the-story of Harley the Wonder Horse. Now understand that real-life Harley is not a trick-riding horse, but I have a long-time friend, Linda Scholtz, who is a real-life trick rider. I’ve watched her do some mighty fine stunts, so fine that she instructs would-be trick riders how to be real trick riders.

A few other things from my life play into this book, like the setting. Is there anywhere more beautiful than the Rocky Mountains as a storm blows in quicker than your breath? Or the aspens that shiver in the slightest breeze and pour gold down the gullies and ravines in autumn? And what of sitting before a crackling fire in the woodstove or fireplace as fall runs in ahead of winter?

Join me for a ride in the final book of The Cañon City Chronicles, Covering Grace. It may just be more than you expected.

Blog Stops

Stories By Gina, August 8 (Author Interview)

Debbie’s Dusty Deliberations, August 8

Holly’s Book Corner, August 9

Texas Book-aholic, August 10

Jodie Wolfe – Stories Where Hope and Quirky Meet, August 11 (Author Interview)

Locks, Hooks and Books, August 12

Back Porch Reads, August 13 (Author Interview)

Truth and Grace Homeschool Academy, August 14

Pause for Tales, August 15

For the Love of Literature, August 16 (Author Interview)

Devoted To Hope, August 16

Happily Managing a Household of Boys, August 17

Artistic Nobody, August 18 (Author Interview)

For Him and My Family, August 19

Connie’s History Classroom , August 20

Cover Lover Book Review, August 21

Giveaway

To celebrate her tour, Davalynn is giving away the grand prize package of a $50 Amazon gift card and a signed copy of the book!!

Be sure to comment on the blog stops for nine extra entries into the giveaway! Click the link below to enter.

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Interview with Davalynn

What things molded your desire to write a novel?

I started keeping a journal in the sixth grade. As I matured, so did my desire to put into words what I thought, saw, heard, or experienced. Interestingly enough, I took no writing courses in high school, but my sophomore English teacher recognized what was struggling to express itself in my work and encouraged me to write for magazines and learn to use a camera. His inspiration led to my freelancing for American Cowboy, Western Horseman, Guideposts, Rodeo Sports News, Power for Living, and other publications. I wrote and edited several years for the Fellowship of Christian Cowboys, and eventually landed a job as a crime-beat reporter and features writer for a daily newspaper in Colorado and one in California. However, I always wanted to write fiction. So I did. My first novel was published in 2012 followed by ten more novels, eight novellas, and one women’s devotional book.

If you could give advice to a newbie writer, what would it be?

My advice to those who long to write – and there is a difference between wanting to write and wanting to have written a book – is the same advice credited to former British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill: Never give up. Writing is not easy and nay-sayers abound, especially those who think you should get a “real job.” Not all writers can write without an outside income, but if time is the problem, force yourself to write twenty minutes a day. It’s doable. It’s less than the time most people spend on their cell phones looking at social media. Choose what you do. Don’t follow the crowd. Write.

Give us an insight into your faith in the Lord.

Proclaiming God and His faithfulness is my purpose in life. Hearing Him is the most important thing, for then I know how to pray for my family and what words to use in my books. The peace of His presence is my most valuable possession, for it cannot be counterfeited and it cannot be confiscated.

Is your book part of a series?

Covering Grace is Book 6 of “The Cañon City Chronicles,” the final book in the series about three generations of the Hutton family. The heroine, Grace, is the little sister of twin brothers, Cale and Hugh, whose stories are told in Books 4 and 5, respectively. She set out to prove herself by riding in Bill Cody’s Wild West Show for three years, and in Covering Grace, returns home unwilling to fit back in as the little tag-along. However, in her search for where she belongs, she not only discovers more about herself and how much she is like her grandmother (the original heroine of Book 1), she also meets a cowboy hatter who challenges her to trust and love again.

When you aren’t writing, what do you enjoy doing?

When I’m not writing, I like to work in the garden, walk early in the morning, take pictures that I use in my weekly blog and newsletter, and read. I also sing and play the keyboard on my church worship team and I love the music.