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Welcome to Dedicated. I'm your host Doug Brunt. Today we're with Erica Roebuck.

Erica is the best-selling author of eight works of historical fiction. Her latest is called The Last

Twelve Miles, which is a Prohibition-era novel, based on two real-life figures from that

period. Early reviews say, move over Al Capone and Elliot Ness. Roebuck brings this real American

hero and real criminal mastermind to vivid life. So knock back a shot and prepare to have this novel,

Knock Your Sox Off. I just finished reading a galley and an advanced copy of the book the other week,

and it's terrific. I loved it, and it's the perfect book for this show. Erica, welcome.

Thank you. I appreciate it. It's great to have you here. And keeping with a theme, we are going to have

the Bahama Queen cocktail today. Yes, based on Cleo Lithgow, one of the original female rumrunner gangsterssters who has a cameo in the book. It has a cameo in the book. And I saw, so when you told me the drink request, I did have a guess because the drink actually is also mentioned in the book. Yes. Yes. But it's hard. I mean, there's a number of drinks mentioned in the book. So I didn't really know where to go. But I did watch on YouTube some of the drinks being mixed. And when they made the sloppy Joes, they made kind of a funny face. So I thought, well, we probably don't want that one. Actually, wait, I'm going to put this ice out. So I did, I confess that the drink contains bourbon barrel gin, which I confess I did not know as a thing.

So I'm excited to try that.

And it's also fun because we get to muddle stuff making this drink.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's a little more involved.

That'll be good for the listeners.

Right.

Oh my gosh, if I can open this simple syrup.

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