Riding Shotgun - by Rita Mae Brown (Paperback)

About the Book

Introducing readers to Cig Blackwood, a widow and single mother about to uncover a shocking secret. Cig is spending the first anniversary of her husband's death enjoying a pastime they both loved--fox hunting. During the hunt, she learns from another rider that her husband died in another woman's arms. Riding into the foggy Virginia woods, the stunned Cig becomes lost--in the year 1699--and soon realizes how little the times have changed.

Book Synopsis

The author of Venus Envy takes you on a riotous ride back to one woman's future...

In a delightful contemporary farce with a riotous twist, Rita Mae Brown welcomes you to Virginia's horse country, where a fox hunt is about to lead a 1990s woman, Cig Blackwood, into a 1690s adventure of the heart. Infidelity, single motherhood, family betrayal, and the thrill of the hunt (in many varieties) are hilariously and poignantly played out in this captivating novel of time travel and self-discovery.

Review Quotes

"It's a search for Mr. Right and the meaning of life that moves back and forth across time periods deftly as a minuet, with each century yielding up truths about the other."
--St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Giddily enjoyable...with its feisty heroine, vivid period detail and well-turned plot twists, this novel is charming."
--Publishers Weekly

"The pace is fast and full of life....a whopping good read and a heckuva ride."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Laugh-out-loud lines...dead-on ridicule of modern-day bad behavior." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author

Rita Mae Brown is the bestselling author of the Sneaky Pie Brown series; the Sister Jane series; A Nose for Justice and Murder Unleashed; Rubyfruit Jungle; In Her Day; and Six of One, as well as several other novels. An Emmy-nominated screenwriter and a poet, Brown lives in Afton, Virginia.