Nancy Mayborn Peterson

Nancy Mayborn Peterson remembers vividly how life changed when Pearl Harbor plunged the nation into World War II. Combining interviews and research with personal knowledge, she has recreated the early years of that struggle, when the United States was on the edge of losing to the Axis powers. Not to be Forgiven, A Novel, relates how the war impacted Hiram's Spring, Nebraska, and forever scarred the lives of Sis Greggory, her soldier-brother, Danny, and Horst, a German prisoner of war.

NOT TO BE FORGIVEN is the 2014 winner of BEST MAINSTREAM NOVEL in the Colorado Authors' League annual awards contest See blog.denverpost.com/books/2014/05/09.

NOT TO BE FORGIVEN also won a FINALIST AWARD for BEST FIRST NOVEL in the nation-wide 2014 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS competition. See www.IndieBookAwards.com.

Nancy grew up in Scottsbluff in the Nebraska Panhandle and as a child searched for arrow heads in the ruts of the Oregon Trail. Her first book, People of the Moonshell, detailed experiences of people along the Platte River. She later collected stories of the Missouri River in People of the Troubled Water and People of the Old Missury. Her interest in the area's original residents then led her to write Walking in Two Worlds; Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking their Path.She has been writing award-winning books and articles for more than 40 years.