Am currently reading “The Fort” and will place it on my bookshelf beside other books, 15 total, that you have written. Do I need say you are my favorite author of historical fiction? I was sorry to read that you do not accept ideas for future novels because I have a story right up your alley. My g-g-g-grandfather fought at Bunker Hill and according to the story he told a grandson, was the last man to leave the battlefield. But not before a British officer, who he subsequently killed, had opened a wound in his stomach that allowed his intestines to protrude. He made his way to a pond where he met a young couple with a baby. The mother swam across while the two men, one proceeding the other just far enough, tossed the baby to each other as they crossed. My g-g-g-grandfather hid for three days before he was found and lived to be 90 years old. His son was the first man tried for murder in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1804 and although he was acquitted, the judge felt he must be punished somehow and ordered the letter “m” be branded on the palm of his left hand. The first doctor in that area noted in his journal that he removed the brand. In your hands I know this would make a wonderful novel. Have read that you are working on the sixth book of the Saxon Tales and can hardly wait.

Patricia Katterhenry