Mary W. Walters has published three other novels, The Woman Upstairs (originally published by NeWest Press, 1987), Bitters (NeWest, 1999), and The Adventures of Don Valiente and the Apache Canyon Kid (co-authored with John A. Aragon, 2012) as well as a collection of short stories (Cool, River Books, 2000). She has won a Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Excellence in Writing and an Alberta Achievement Award, and she is listed in Who's Who in Canada. Her short fiction has been short-listed for such prizes as the CBC/Saturday Night Fiction Competition and the Journey Prize, and has been publish...