Hard Water is Louise's latest Oliver Redcastle historical mystery.
It's a scorching July in the summer of 1884.William Pinkerton has sent Oliver Redcastle to the Midwestern island paradise of Put-in-Bay.The assignment seems simple:capture a tight-rope walking train robber.But two beautiful women, a dangerous cult, and reminders of Oliver's Civil War past complicate the mission.
The sharpshooting detective must fight his way free of a tangled web of personal and provessional hazards.In the process he meets John Brown Jr., Jay Cooke, Ulysses S. Grant, and some of the other powerbrokers that made the Midwest a center of industry and political clout in this fascinating period of American history.
