Jan Thacker, author of "The Widows of Danford," Interviewed

When young Letty organizes a group of elderly seniors and they converge on the house to fix and repair and catalogue the priceless contents, lives change. And when mansion-owner Katherine O’Malley impulsively offers to hold an extravagant birthday party at the mansion it brings a family back together and is the catalyst groundskeeper Simeon Quest needs to choose love.

 

Jan Thacker is a longtime Alaskan journalist, author, and columnist with 25 years of weekly columns (mostly humor) under her belt. A fourth generation Whitefish, Montanan, in 1975 she and her husband, Troy, packed up their prized possessions (the kids and the new console color TV) and drove to Alaska where they spent eight years in the bush and many years in North Pole. She and Troy currently live in Wasilla where she devotes her time to her writing ministry and cheerleading her daughters, grandchildren, and two great-grandbabies.