A novel set in Yellowstone country during the great Montana fires of 2000, The Ballad of the Drover, is the story of an Australian movie star searching for his biological father-a real American cowboy. Will a native Montanan woman guide him in his journey? How does an ancient Irish poem about St. Patrick unite two lost souls who meet in a rural Montana bar at the crossroads of their lives? What clues do a Nelson Story 1866 cattle drive from Texas to a gold camp in Montana Territory and a Crow Indian legend about a woman named Evening Star hold for the man from Down Under? The author grew up in Montana, loving the history and people of the Big Sky Country. She graduated from Montana State University where she studied psychology, anthropology, and art history. Her PhD in experimental aesthetics was from the Psychology Department at the University of Illinois. C. G. Eberts has taught statistics and product design at USC and Purdue. Myths of Japanese Quality published by Prentice Hall in 1995 was based upon her experiences living in Japan with her small sons while her late husband worked for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. In 2013, she released a concept album, Bare Bone Songs, of a cappella roots and blues music. Eberts spends her summers at the remote family-built cabin high in the Montana mountains outside Ennis. Landscapes of a Montana Heart is her first novel.