Her Smile
Her Smile
By Carla Kelly
Kenmore, WA
A Camel Press book published by Epicenter Press
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, brands, media, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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Her Smile
Copyright © 2021 by Carla Kelly
ISBN: 9781603811903 (trade paper)
ISBN: 9781603811910 (ebook)
Printed in the United States of America
To Mary Ruth Kelly Huerta
Thanks for reminding me about this little novel.
And thank you for your abiding faith in my writing.
Books by Carla Kelly
Fiction
Daughter of Fortune
Summer Campaign
Miss Chartley’s Guided Tour
Marian’s Christmas Wish
Mrs. McVinnie’s London Season
Libby’s London Merchant
Miss Grimsley’s Oxford Career
Miss Billings Treads the Boards
Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind
Miss Wittier Makes a List
Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand
Reforming Lord Ragsdale
The Lady’s Companion
With This Ring
One Good Turn
The Wedding Journey
Here’s to the Ladies: Stories of the Frontier Army
Beau Crusoe
Marrying the Captain
The Surgeon’s Lady
Marrying the Royal Marine
The Admiral’s Penniless Bride
Borrowed Light
Enduring Light
Coming Home for Christmas: The Holiday Stories
Regency Christmas Gifts
Season’s Regency Greetings
Marriage of Mercy
My Loving Vigil Keeping
Double Cross
Marco and the Devil’s Bargain
Paloma and the Horse Traders
Star in the Meadow
Unlikely Master Genius
Unlikely Spy Catchers
Safe Passage
Softly Falling
One Step Enough
Courting Carrie in Wonderland
A Regency Royal Navy Christmas
Unlikely Heroes
A Hopeful Christmas
The Necklace
“We will find a way to make
a way out of no way.”
john r. lewis (1940-2020)
When I was working with Oscar-winning film director Alejandro Gonzales Iñárritu on the film, The Revenant, Alejandro said to me he wanted to create a film that tells a story. As I read Carla Kelly’s novel, Her Smile, I started to visualize another story where a woman’s journey came to life as she experienced changes within her own understanding, along with her friendship with the Nez Perce.
My former colleague Carla Kelly opened a doorway to the life and experiences of Elizabeth Ann Everett, who finds herself pitchforked into the savage conflict of the Nez Perce Nation’s flight to the Canadian border. As a scholar of nineteenth century western history, Carla allowed for this woman’s perspective, which is rarely seen or recorded, to be told. It reaches the heart of westward expansion: the changing of the West between the United States and Native American relations. These changes of westward expansion and whites moving into these traditional homelands came at a high price for the indigenous people who had lived in those areas for millennia. Broken treaties, land grabs, forced removal, colonization and dependence became the norm.