My next book is not about Grand Junction, but it is close to my heart. A high school friend contacted me several years ago, when he returned from his first stint in Iraq just after the war there began. Casey Jaworski had gone to Iraq as a civilian to help restore the water treatment plants in southern Iraq. This swashbuckling American collided with culturally-restrained Iraq, and everything from terror to humor ensued. “South of Baghdad” will fictionalize Casey’s adventures in Al-Kut, six hours south of Baghdad, and the wonderful and interesting people he met there. Lives are changed when West meets East on the dangerous deserts of Iraq.

Mentioned in “George Crawford’s Attic,” Edward Innes, the only Mesa County Law Officer murdered in the line of duty, will have his own book. Working with retired Arizona police sergeant and Grand Junction police historian, Jeff Stratton, this book will go extensively into the stories of three men—all immigrants—whose lives take drastically different directions when they meet in Grand Junction at the turn of the century. The owner of the elegant St. Regis Hotel, Harry Burnett, the popular young fireman and jailor, Ed Innes, and the ne’er-do-well, George McGarvey are on a path that collide in rape, murder, and hanging.

On December 30, 1943 a gruesome discovery was made in the tiny town of Palisade, Colorado, east of Grand Junction. An itinerant peach farmer was found bludgeoned to death in a gully fifteen feet from his cabin. He'd been there several days. At first authorities thought the motive was robbery, but inside the cabin—in pools of Conlon’s blood—they found coins tossed, and on a nearby shelf fifteen dollars are neatly folded. Upon further investigation they determined only one thing was missing—the man's watch. In the ensuing months only one lead was found, but it turned into a dead end. The murder of Thomas Conlon remained unsolved. In D.A. Brockett's third mystorical, she attempts to solve this mystery, as well as recount the efforts of the area's "Home Front Heroes" during WWII.