The town I grew up in owes its existence to gold mining.
Gold was mined up in the mountains, and then brought down those steep slopes to the smelter near the river. First by mule, horse and wagon, and then by train.
The gold mine is not longer active, but I grew up with a fascination of hard-rock mining. I mean, come on…gold in the hills!
What fun to dive into a Snow White story as an adult and tap into my childhood imagination. For those of you carefully reading Snow White’s Mirror, you’ll see I give a nod to that gold-mining town because I found there were several real-life connections between my hometown area and Bisbee, where this story takes place.
Bisbee is a small town in Arizona now, but back in the day, the copper mines in Bisbee were the most prosperous in the world. Copper was needed to light up the world and Bisbee had tons of it.
It’s into this time period that my characters wander into town…
Billie’s uncle is convinced the stories his sister tells about the Bergmann family history are true.
A magic mirror.
A family of dwarfs.
And he’ll do anything to command the mirror, even if it means using unsuspecting Billie.
Socialite Billie likes a treasure hunt just as much as the next girl, so she follows her uncle to an out-of-the-way mining town in Arizona where she meets an odd array of characters, including one rugged boy unlike any she’s met before.
More than anything else, Billie hopes the magic mirror holds a cure for her mother’s mysterious illness. But after making a critical mistake, Billie risks walking away from this baffling town with nothing unless she can solve the problem that has been plaguing her family for centuries.
