<p><strong>Winner, Midwest Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards</strong></p><p><strong>Finalist, Historical Fiction, National Indie Excellence Awards</strong></p><p><strong>Longlisted, Best Indie Book 2023, <em>Shelf Unbound</em></strong></p><p><strong>Honorable Mention, Historical Fiction, The Eric Hoffer Book Award</strong></p><p><strong>Silver Medal, Plains Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">"Beautifully written, compulsively readable... " So says Indie Reader of <em>The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft</em> - the riveting novel about a legendary woman in antebellum Missouri who allowed neither men nor society's conventions to keep her from cutting her own remarkable path.</strong></p><p><strong style="color: rgba(15, 17, 17, 1)">&nbsp;</strong></p><p>The year is 1844. On a May midnight, Eliza Haycraft flings herself into a canoe to escape a husband who beats her and a life that does the same. She is penniless and illiterate. Yet a decade later, sex and secrets will make her the wealthiest woman in St. Louis, a frontier boom town at the western edge of a restless nation.</p><p><br></p><p>With only herself to rely on, Eliza becomes a prostitute and madam, then a property owner and puller of strings. She tangles with a vindictive rival and a governor who will become a Civil War turncoat. Scarred by experience, she finds true love but dares not admit it even to herself.</p><p><br></p><p>And when civil war looms, Eliza faces a devastating choice: whether to risk her own life for the survival of everything-and everyone-she holds dear.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Inspired by a true story, set in a tumultuous era too like our own, <em>The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft</em> is historical fiction at its sweeping best: with richly drawn characters, a shattering love story, and an extraordinary heroine you will remember long after the last page is turned...</p>