Research is the reason I find historical novels a joy to write,” says Michelle Black. “I have loved research since my law school days. It’s like a treasure hunt.” Her first two books, Never Come Down (a mining-town mystery and e-book bestseller) and Lightning in a Drought Year (set in 1880s Kansas and endorsed by the National Education Association) each earned Black a Colorado Independent Publisher Award. An Uncommon Enemy, about the months following the Custer battle of the Washita in 1


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