Meet the Granddaughter

Twila Brewer (nee Lenz) is the Granddaughter of Margaret Riggs (nee Hamilton) who is “The Girl From The Blue Ridge Mountains.  Twila is a native Arizonan and  lived her early life  in Joseph City, Arizona.  It was during that time that she met and married Jeff Brewer and together they had three beautiful daughters and the story will continue.

Twila is currently single and employed by the Tucson Public Safety Communications Department.  After hours, she has developed her culinary skills as a baker and there is a growing demand for services and baking products.

For more information about this book, a schedule of readings at local bookstores, or how to get an autographed copy contact Twila in our contact page.

In the near future, Twila and Lisa will be interviewed by Jason Star which will be featured on our Podcast page under Media Links.

Purchase your Hard or Soft Cover Book on our website and receive an autographed copy.  

Meet the Author

Lisa Turner has worked as a newspaper journalist, winning two awards for her stories pertaining to the Mescalero Apache Tribe and a survivor of the Bosnian War. She is a U.S. Air Force veteran, and was one of the first eight women who served as operators in Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile silos in Montana.  

Lisa Anne Turner and Twila Brewer worked together as 911 emergency operators, often sitting side by side. Brewer assembled more than eighty pages of notes and anecdotes written by her mother, Ella Mae Riggs Lenz, about her life and the tremulous journey she and her mother Margaret ventured on.  Turner expanded on these notes to create The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains, a novel built from historical fact. The Girl from the Blue Ridge Mountains is an authentic piece of Americana, showing that the bravest of us can salvage meaning from the cruelest circumstances, and survive to prosper and embrace joy.