No-one takes a mixed-race woman seriously in the Dakotas, but Kate has never let her heritage or her gender stand in her way. Kate has a plan to make herself indispensable and she intends to succeed, no matter who stands in her way.
Sara Dahmen is a multi-award-winning novelist and screenwriter, and the only known female coppersmith building copperware in America. She has published over 100 trade articles, and has been featured in Forbes, Martha Stewart, on PBS and NBC's TODAY Show. Her historical fiction Flats Junction novel series is currently in development for media, as is her fantasy novel series, West of the Moon. Sara's non-fiction, Copper Iron and Clay: A Smith's Journey (Morrow/HarperCollins) is the first book on coppersmithing since 1894.
