Rae Ellen Lee: 5 books

I Only Cuss When I’m Sailing is a memoir about a couple’s move from landlocked Montana to a sailboat on the West Coast. They will fix up the old boat, learn to sail, and set off for the Caribbean. The idea started while they were renovating an old mining town brothel. Rae Ellen Lee and her husband,...

Rae reluctantly moves from Montana to a sailboat north of Seattle with her new husband. They will sail to the Caribbean – that is, after they fix up the boat and learn to sail. Rae soon learns all about knockdowns and wet Triscuits, and the 1960s music that inspired her bonehead decision.

In My Next Husband Will Be Normal – A St. John Adventure, Lee and her husband ditch their sailboat and fly to the U.S. Virgin Islands with a down payment for a mom and pop business on St. John. The plan:  when they aren’t sewing canvas bags at their little shop, The Canvas Factory, they’ll...

The place:  Montana.  The time:  the present.  After a nearly fatal encounter with a moose and a terrifyingly close brush with middle age, Molly reassesses her life.  The Result: she ends her stale marriage and moves to a small mining town where she purchases The Bluebird House, an old bordello. ...

Echo needs a miracle. She’s turning fifty, living with her gun-toting mom, and her lover’s been killed in a logging truck accident. She made front-page news as a Salvation Army bell ringer, but that job ended and she’s digging for change to pay off a gambling debt. Then she hits pay dirt. The...