The book ‘It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own’ is written by Stephen Bly. ‘It’s Your Misfortune and None of My Own’ is the 1st book in the ‘Code of the West’ series. The story is about Pepper Paige, a dance-hall girl she assumes the identity of a woman killed in a stagecoach wreck. She travels west to meet the woman’s intended husband, a rancher who only knows his future wife from his letters to her.