Untarnished Reputation

When he learns that President McKinley is dying from an assassin's bullet, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt decides that before he can assume the presidency, he must suppress a dangerous secret from his past”a secret that could cripple his ability to govern the United States; a secret that could tarnish his otherwise spotless reputation. Did he really cross paths with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid fifteen years earlier in 1886 Montana? When Roosevelt sees Bat Masterson, the soon-to-become president enlists his help, disclosing the untold events and assigning him the task of managing the potential scandal. Will Masterson be able to pull all the threads together and keep the secret hidden from the American public?

Terry Row is the award-winning author of Summer Capricorn (2006) and Untarnished Reputation (2009), which received an Honorable Mention in the Genre Category at the 2009 Hollywood Book Festival and took the top prize in the Western Category at the National Indie Excellence Awards of 2010. His newest title, Phyllis Marie, won an NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Best Book in the Category of Fiction, Spring of 2011.

In addition to his work as a novelist, he teaches, edits manuscripts for other novelists, and moderates the Los Alamos Writers' Group. He lives in northern Santa Barbara County and remains a lifelong avocationist, pursuing independent studies in writing, literature, poetry, music, history, cinema, photography, travel, eclipse-chasing, astronomy, chess, gardening, and bird watching.