The Gunslinger’s Widow
A.M. Vergara
Type: ARC
Genre: Historical fiction, western
Word count: 78,000
Warnings: Graphic violence, graphic sexual content, swearing
When a gang of outlaws storms Flaka’s family ranch, pursuing a lone gunslinger, she kills the gang’s leader in a split-second decision that turns her into southern Texas’ most hunted fugitive.
What’s this?
Flaka couldn’t have known the masked bandit she shot was the local mayor’s son. And Mayor Ian Marcus is not a man to let his son’s killer go free, even if it was self-defense. Flaka joins up with the stranger who started all the trouble—Oliver, a mysterious and alluring gunslinger who promises to protect her. They flee across the deserts of southern Texas and northern Mexico, seeking safety outside the reach of Marcus’s vengeance. But Ian Marcus respects neither jurisdiction nor borders and, as her feelings for Oliver grow, Flaka begins to realize that the final showdown may come at a cost far higher than her own life.
A.M. Vergara is a physician associate and paramedic. When not writing, reading, or working in the hospital or on the ambulance, she can be found outside, hiking, camping, riding her mule, foraging for edible mushrooms, field-herping, or playing her banjo.
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