Inez Ross

(505) 662-4926 email: inezross@hubwest.com

Perilous Pursuit has been reviewed in Wagon Tracks, the newsletter of the Santa Fe Trail Association, and Inez recently presented a program for the End of the Trail chapter of the SFTA at the DeFarge library in Santa Fe. Her program consists of a 20-minute video showing the scenes, people, and animals encountered on the eight-year trek that five women took, covering the Santa Fe Trail on the Cimarron Route. As "Trail Boss" of the hikers, she offers stories and music along with the video. On February 2nd she presents the show and signs copies of Perilous Pusuit in Corona, New Mexico. If you would like to have her visit your club or civic group phone her at (505) 662-4926, or e-mail inezross@hubwest.com.

Inez Ross began telling stories as a child to her friends on the school bus in Michigan and now writes travel articles for the local newspaper in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where she taught high school English for several years. She received her master's degree in English from Michigan State University. She lived in Medicine Bow, Wyoming, for five years, then moved to New Mexico, where she is now hiking, studying, and writing about the Santa Fe Trail.

Check out Perilous Pursuit on the Santa Fe Trail, a fiction adventure covering modern Trail sites as well as some real persons, including Marc Simmons. Fictional character Sheila Jones, the modern counterpart of Sherlock Homes, and her trusty assistant Dora Watling are trying to protect a young client from an evil stepfather as he leads them in a risky game along the Trail toward a dangerous rendezvous in Santa Fe.

Without a Wagon on the Santa Fe Trail. The year was 1996. Three semi-retired women, looking for a challenge decided to hike the Santa Fe Trail, the first trading route in 1821 that had linked the state of Missouri to the city of Santa Fe in what was then a foreign country. What began as a lark grew into a serious quest to walk the entire 800 miles from Santa Fe to Franklin, Missouri.

Persuaded echoes the plot of Jane Austen's Persuasion, reshaping the characters for modern day with the setting of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and Mackinac Island."Buy this book from Amazon today!

A fast-moving quick read, The Adobe Castle is a modern gothic with northern New Mexico setting. The amusing characters are classic, the Southwest setting is realistic, and the ghost is historical. The book has been praised as smoothly written and wholesome, but also a literary spoof of the gothic format. Buy this book from Amazon today!