Calamity Montana

About the Calamity Montana series

Calamity Montana is a small-town romantic comedy series published under Devney Perry's Willa Nash pen name, set in the fictional town of Calamity, Montana, presided over by its sheriff, Duke Evans, and populated by the kind of eccentric, meddling townsfolk the town's name promises. The Bribe opens the series and establishes the tone: broadly comedic small-town romance with lighter emotional stakes than Perry's work under her own name, leaning into farce and misunderstanding-driven plots. The Bluff follows with a marriage-of-convenience pairing between an artist and a woman escaping her old life, and the series continues through The Brazen, The Bully, and The Brawl before closing with The Brood, plus the novella The Booty slotted between books two and three.

Written for Kindle Unlimited under the Willa Nash name, Calamity Montana is deliberately positioned as a breezier, sillier counterpart to Perry's more emotionally weighty Montana series like Jamison Valley or Lark Cove: same small-town found-family warmth, but with the comedy turned up and the drama turned down.

How to read this series

Publication order: The Bribe, The Bluff, The Booty (a 2.5 novella), The Brazen, The Bully, The Brawl, The Brood. Each book follows a different resident of Calamity, Montana, and stands alone as a romance, but the town's recurring cast, especially Sheriff Duke Evans, threads through every entry, so publication order is recommended. The Booty is a shorter novella slotted between books two and three; it can be skipped without losing the main plot thread, but it's part of the same recurring cast.