Abagail
Michaels had been drifting since being discharged from the army a year ago. Her
past was what it was. A decorated veteran. Her family killed by rebels early on
in the second civil war. She was a loner. The only thing that brought her
solace was her guitar. She was too young to feel so damned old. She was
twenty-eight years young and felt like she’d lived three lifetimes. She’d
served like a good soldier girl for the eight years the war had waged. And at
twenty-seven a cease fire was called and she was given her medals and a
discharge paper. No money as the country was now a band of city-states.
Having no desire to return home to the scene of her worst
memories she had drifted. And now, in the hardest winter that she could
remember since her first months on the frontlines she found it odd the cold
weather had followed her to San Antonio, Texas. She knew the stories that surrounded
the city. Filled with outlaws and cowboys it was run by two men, one a fat, and
bloated former rebel general known simply as Rob, she knew like the back of her
hand. He ran the largest ranch in the southwest, he paid shit wages, treated
his women even worse, and let his son bully whoever he chose and paid off the
sheriff anytime he broke the law. Abagail had no desire to see him ever again.
It was the second man she was intrigued by. And hoped to
gain help from. But Sam Jackson was known as the Quiet Man by those who worked
for him. He owned a small ranch. Paid his workers a decent wage. And while he
was a womanizer, he was a soft touch to a damsel in distress. Even though he
never bedded down with any one woman for too long they didn’t seem to mind so
much.
About the author:
Amy McCorkle, who also writes as Kate Lynd is the author of 13
published works. She is the bestselling author of Letters to Daniel, Bounty
Hunter, Gemini’s War, GLADIATOR:The Gladiator Chronicles, and BLACKOUT: AN
AURORA BLACK NOVEL. She has won several Preditors & Editors awards, the
recipient of back to back Moondance International Film Festival awards, the
co-writer of the 2013 Fright Night Film Festival SciFi Screenplay award for the
adaptation her book Bounty Hunter, and is currently a double finalist with her
scripts City of the Damned and Bella Morte with her co-screenwriter Melissa
Goodman. And her documentary based on the blog and the memoir of the same name,
Letters to Daniel is the premiere event at Imaginarium. She loves to hear from
her readers, she can be contacted via her site,
http://letters-todaniel.blogspot.com .
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