The Best Fiction is Often Rooted in History...

The Great Depression brought great poverty and pain to the United States, even in areas already stricken with crippling hardship, like the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. In an attempt to bring something much needed to the people of this area and to employ deserving women, a program was started that was both dangerous and revolutionary. One that took a normally stationary job, that of a librarian, and put it not only in the field, but on horseback in some of the roughest country possible.

BOOKRIDERS tells heroic tales of women who risked their lives to deliver books to isolated farms, work camps, and villages far from any city as a part of the Pack Horse Library project. Five authors inspired by the true exploits of these resourceful heroines and their brief, but much needed mission tell stories guaranteed to pay tribute to the history and inspire a new generation of readers!

Kara Jorges grew up riding Morgan horses and milking Jersey cows in southwest Minnesota. She now lives in Brooklyn Center with her German shepherds, Oso and Wolfie. In the summer, she enjoys being on her patio or exploring the many parks in the metro area. In the winter she reads a lot and paints custom nutcrackers. Kara has written eleven romance and romantic suspense novels, and now also writes pulp. Her latest release is one of five exciting stories for the Bookriders anthology about Kentucky horseback librarians in the 1930s.