Sage Adair Historical Mysteries

It's 1902 and two men have disappeared, sending Sage Adair on a desperate search that leads him into the Stygian blackness of Portland's underground to confront murderous shanghaiers, a lost friendship, and his own dark fears.

A losing labor strike, a union leader framed for murder, a ragpicker poet and collapsing city bridges, each competes for Sage Adair's attention as he sloughs through the Pacific Northwest rain and mud to find answers before someone else dies.

President Theodore Roosevelt has left Washington D.C., embarking on his historic train trip through the American West. Little does he know that assassination awaits him in Portland, Oregon.

A blistering 1903 summer and Portland's steam laundry women work ten hellish hours a day. Exhausted and ill, they demand a nine-hour workday. Sage Adair, and his mother, Mae, join their fight. Then the women begin disappearing. Desperately searching for the missing women, Sage and Mae face grave danger midst suffragettes, prostitutes, social workers, white slavers. arsonists and heartless bosses.

Arson, murder, kidnapping and false accusations abound in this seventh book of the Sage Adair series. What begins as a simple assignment—helping the city's firefighters unionize, catapults Sage onto firefighting's front lines and into solving the deeper mystery of who is burning down the city and why.