Until Shiloh Comes was awarded a Certificate of Merit as a finalist in the 2012 Deep River Books writing contest, . In the 2013 contest, author Robert M. Starr won a second Certificate of Merit for A Walk in the Wilderness. Why is someone with a long range rifle and unusual skill shooting folks on the JH Connected? Sarah Hadley and her daughter Hannah are trying desperately to hold onto their home, with old Caleb Stohr the last man remaining to do the heavy work on the ranch. As the Montana winter approaches, a stranger, following the biblical instruction to look after widows and orphans, rides onto the ranch and offers to help. Folks call me Shiloh. Whatever you may have once been, Sarah said. I think you have become a very good man. No, ma’am, I’m just a man trying to serve a very good God. Little did they know the danger that lay ahead. Until Shiloh Comes is historical fiction, written for the Christian market, set in the Montana Territory of 1876 with roots going back to the Adirondack Mountains of New York and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia prior to and through the Civil War.