The Wire Between Us
A Novel of the Transcontinental Telegraph

About this book:

In the savage winter of 1874, the transcontinental telegraph is the only voice stitching a fractured nation together—and someone has just cut the wire.

Sarah Sterling hears the world in dots and dashes. As the lone operator at South Pass Station, she translates the secrets of generals, railroad barons, and bankers into clean copper current. But when a priority cipher screams across the line in a rhythm too perfect to be human, then dies in a silence no storm could cause, Sarah knows the truth: the wire wasn't broken. It was silenced.

Enter Ned Vance, a lineman with a scarred jaw, a Sharps rifle, and a badge marked *Special Service*. He rode sixty miles in four hours because he knew the cut was coming. Together, they'll chase the break across alkali flats and through granite cuts where ambush waits behind every boulder. But the message Sarah copied before the dark fell isn't just code—it's a key. And the men who cut the line will burn the territory down to get it back.

*The Wire Between Us* is a pulse-pounding historical thriller where the click of a brass key is the deadliest sound on the frontier—and the only thing standing between order and chaos is a woman who refuses to let the signal die.