Title: Orphan's Gold
Description: Experience time travel and romance in this novella for mature young adults.

Virgil was ready to risk danger crossing the prairie to find his father and a fortune in gold. After the long wagon journey to Colorado, his difficulties should have been over. But they were only beginning. Soon he would find himself among among mammoth hunters and falling in love.

During his puberty rite, Virgil was given a vision. But now there's danger. Will he live to make his vision real or perish in an age when humanity is extinct?
Subjects: gold, climate change, rite of passage, time travel romance, mammoth hunter, colorado author, colorado adventure, colorado gold rush, puberty rite, science fiction western adventure
Places: Denver Golden Colorado
Time periods: Colorado Gold Rush, Contemporary, near future, 1920s, prehistoric Colorado