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Silver Medal-Midwest Best Regional Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Winner – Western Fictioneer Peacemaker Award-Best First Novel 
She captured his heart, but at what price?
 

The long, bloody Civil War is finally at an end when Zee Mimms, the daughter of a Missouri preacher, must nurse her cousin, Jesse James, back to health after he suffers a near-fatal wound. During Jesse’s long convalescence, the couple falls in love, but Jesse’s resentment against the Federals runs deep. He has scores to settle.

For him, the war will never be over.

Zee is torn between deferring to her parents and marrying for security or marrying for love and the hard realities of life with an outlaw―living under an assumed name and forever on the run.

For her, the choice she makes means the war is only beginning.

Discover why readers describe this richly imagined story of the woman who wed Jesse James as powerful, compelling, and emotional.

Honors for I am Mrs. Jesse James
  • Independent Publisher Book Awards Best Regional Fiction – Silver Medal
  • Western Fictioneers Best First Novel – Winner
  • Laramie Book Award for Western Fiction – Semi-Finalist
  • Goethe Book Award for post-1750 Fiction – Short-listed
  • Eric Hoffer Award for Historical Fiction – Finalist
  • Indie Book Award Historical Fiction – Finalist
  • American Book Fest Best Books Award Historical Fiction – Finalist
  • InD’Tale Magazine Rone Award Historical Fiction – Finalist
  • Midwest Independent Publishing Association Historical Fiction – Finalist

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Dimensions 5 × 8 × 1 in

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Pat Wahler

Pat Wahler is an award-winning writer with fifteen stories in the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Her work also appears in Sasee Magazine,Storyteller Magazine, Reader’s Digest, Kansas City Voices, and other publications. A former children’s librarian, Pat believes in the power of storytelling to teach and nurture children. Her debut novel, I Am Mrs. Jesse James, is available from Blank Slate Press, an imprint of the Amphorae Publishing Group. Find out more about Pat at www.patwahler.com