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Tollefson handles suspense well through an ebb and flow of tension.. . .The setting authentically portrays the distinctive New Mexican culture of the 1820s, as Anglo traders filtered into the predominantly Mexican and Indian area. Suzanna personifies the cultural milieu, being herself a mix of New Englander and Native American, but with feelings and desires common to any race. This novel, one of a series, balances characterization and plot to deliver a story with both excitement and depth. - Loyd Uglow, Historical Novel Society Historical fiction has almost as many flavors as there are time periods to write about. Not My Father's House, by Loretta Miles Tollefson is an historical novel with a western flavor that leaves the reader smacking their lips for more. A true frontier wilderness tale, Tollefson takes true events and places from the annals of the wild backwoods of old New Mexico territory and crafts a tale of the struggles and hardships of frontier life in the untamed mountain wilderness....A story of female strength and courage in a time when the lands were still wild. Not My Father's House is a finely crafted story in the western tradition. Kaye Lynne Booth, Writing To Be Read

Teenage bride Suzanna Locke is a city girl, if you can call Taos, New Mexico in the early 1800s a city. Now she's stuck in a cabin in a high mountain valley several days' ride from the familiar warmth of Taos. And she's pregnant. And she's being watched from the surrounding wilderness by a vicious trapper with a taste for rape and murder. Foiled by Suzanna's young husband Gerald in an earlier assault on her in Taos, Enoch Jones now bides his time, waiting for a second opportunity, now in a more secluded setting.Author Loretta Miles Tollefson skillfully portrays the almost palpable loneliness Suzanna experiences in her remote new home, coupled with fear of Jones. It's difficult to say which emotion wears on Suzanna more. Light and darkness, heat and cold reinforce the young woman's reaction to the forces arrayed against her. Her high valley home has winter weather and short days eight months of the year, anathema to an avid gardener like Suzanna. Even the windowpanes in her cabin are more a source of darkness than light, being made of barely translucent mica instead of unobtainable glass.Tollefson handles suspense well through an ebb and flow of tension...The setting authentically portrays the distinctive New Mexican culture of the 1820s, as Anglo traders filtered into the predominantly Mexican and Indian area. Suzanna personifies the cultural milieu, being herself a mix of New Englander and Native American, but with feelings and desires common to any race. This novel, one of a series, balances characterization and plot to deliver a story with both excitement and depth. HistoricalNovelSociety.org

Tollefson handles suspense well through an ebb and flow of tension.. . .The setting authentically portrays the distinctive New Mexican culture of the 1820s, as Anglo traders filtered into the predominantly Mexican and Indian area. Suzanna personifies the cultural milieu, being herself a mix of New Englander and Native American, but with feelings and desires common to any race. This novel, one of a series, balances characterization and plot to deliver a story with both excitement and depth. - Loyd Uglow, Historical Novel Society Historical fiction has almost as many flavors as there are time periods to write about. Not My Father's House, by Loretta Miles Tollefson is an historical novel with a western flavor that leaves the reader smacking their lips for more. A true frontier wilderness tale, Tollefson takes true events and places from the annals of the wild backwoods of old New Mexico territory and crafts a tale of the struggles and hardships of frontier life in the untamed mountain wilderness....A story of female strength and courage in a time when the lands were still wild. Not My Father's House is a finely crafted story in the western tradition. Kaye Lynne Booth, Writing To Be Read

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Loretta Miles Tollefson grew up in the American West in a log cabin built by her grandfather harvested from trees on the surrounding quarter-section. She lives in New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains, where she researches the region's history and imagines what it would have been like to actually experience it.

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