Welcome to Blue River, the Lake Wobegone of Texas, 'where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.' I suspect hearts, flowers, and fat little angels all hover over Blue River and sigh repeatedly. More information about Linda and her novels is available at on Facebook and from Nancy Berland Public Relations, 40.

She anticipates that her next charitable endeavors will benefit four-legged critters. Linda explores that turbulent time in The Yankee Widow, a MIRA Books hardcover, also available in digital and audiobook formats.ĭedicated to helping others, “The First Lady of the West” personally financed fifteen years of her Linda Lael Miller Scholarships for Women, which she awarded to women 25 years and older who were seeking to improve their lot in life through education. She has read literally hundreds of books on the subject, explored numerous battlegrounds and made many visits to her favorite, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has witnessed re-enactments of the legendary clash between North and South. Long a passionate Civil War buff, Linda has studied the era avidly for almost thirty years. For her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Since then, Linda has successfully published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, mysteries and thrillers before coming home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor.

Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might have a future in writing.

Raised in Northport, Washington, Linda pursued her wanderlust, living in London and Arizona and traveling the world before returning to the state of her birth to settle down on a spacious property outside Spokane. The daughter of a town marshal, Linda Lael Miller is a #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than 100 historical and contemporary novels, most of which reflect her love of the West.

Garrett by Linda Lael Miller