Nancy Oswald is a retired teacher and writer. She lives on a working cattle ranch in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado where she herds cows, chickens, cats, dogs, and one nearly human donkey. Trouble Returns, the third book in the Ruby and Maude Adventure series, is her fifth work of historical fiction for children. It follows Trouble in the Tracks set in Cripple Creek, Colorado, in 1896. Her other historical fiction books are Nothing Here but Stones, based on the Jewish Colony of Cotopaxi in the early 1880s, and Hard Face Moon, a dramatic and poignant novel set in 1864 at the Sand Creek Massacre in Colorado. Oswald is also the author of 211 Insects in the Infield (middle grade humor) and Edward Wynkoop: Soldier and Indian Agent, a young reader biography that won a 2015 Spur Award. She is the recipient of the Willa Literary Award, is a two-time Spur Award finalist, has twice been an EVVY Award winner, and was a Colorado Book Award finalist for the first Ruby and Maude Adventure, Rescue in Poverty Gulch. Contact Nancy for presentations, school visits, and signings through her website, NancyOswald.com. To be added to Nancy's mailing list, send an email to nancyos@centurylink.net.