Dusty Money is a fun, fast-paced, double-barreled love story based in Chicago. Clare Reynolds and Margaret Carlson are strong-willed redheads. Both are wrestling with love and money. Both need to succeed.
Clare Reynolds is an ambitious South Side girl struggling to climb the ladder of a downtown bank. After a once-in-a-century storm hits, she is presented with an opportunity to rapidly advance her career by securing the gold ring of a Chicago family with dusty money. But Clare must step carefully and not let love supersede money as she is swept up in a romance with the matriarch’s son. Also caught up in this maelstrom is Margaret Carlson, a high-powered, quick-tempered technology lawyer whose life is turned upside down and inside out when her hot college flame shows up the day of the big storm and she is forced to sleuth out why is he in Chicago while not falling back in love.
Come along on an easy ride through a tough time when life was simpler.
Return to an age when you needed to figure out your life and take a risk. Go out to a ranch. Pretend to be a cowboy. Fall in love. Help kill a man. Seek revenge. Gun down another man. Find redemption. Then return to your normal life. Go back out ten years later and do it all over again. To find peace and seek closure. That’s a hero’s journey. That’s Forty Rod Road and Hope.
Kick back and have a beer with characters that stay with you for a while. Lick your fingers for a page turner that will keep you from turning out the light, that will have you mumbling to yourself just one more chapter. Have a laugh. Maybe shed a tear. Be left wanting more. Forty Rod Road and Hope will take you on an adventure in the 1970s and 80s through the Midwest, West, and East Coast.