Author: | Stephen Bly | ISBN: | 9781311526168 |
Publisher: | Bly Books | Publication: | May 10, 2016 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
Author: | Stephen Bly |
ISBN: | 9781311526168 |
Publisher: | Bly Books |
Publication: | May 10, 2016 |
Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
Language: | English |
Tap and Pepper are ready to settle down. Too bad no one else is. Now that Tap's a husband and soon-to-be father, he'd like to settle into a quiet routine. But with him, it's more like riding a bucking bronco down a sheer cliff without a saddle. He's no longer an escaped fugitive running from his past. Or a Wyoming lawman backing down a riotous mob. Or a brand inspector dodging rustlers' ambushes and bullets. Now he's just Tap Andrews, rancher and family man. And he's moving a very pregnant Pepper and their eleven-year-old ward Angelita to a new life in Montana. Awaiting them is the sprawling Slash-Bar-4 ranch and 50,000 acres of rolling range land and timbered valleys. Tap will operate in a partnership with Stack Lowery. So perfect. But the new location and occupation do hold a couple surprises. Cattle grazing in their living room. Indians camped in their yard. A notorious pack of outlaws plaguing them. A pair of inept bank robbers bumbling around. And a pacifist family being violently forced off their homestead. Tap still needs courage and his gun skills to settle this part of the West.
Tap and Pepper are ready to settle down. Too bad no one else is. Now that Tap's a husband and soon-to-be father, he'd like to settle into a quiet routine. But with him, it's more like riding a bucking bronco down a sheer cliff without a saddle. He's no longer an escaped fugitive running from his past. Or a Wyoming lawman backing down a riotous mob. Or a brand inspector dodging rustlers' ambushes and bullets. Now he's just Tap Andrews, rancher and family man. And he's moving a very pregnant Pepper and their eleven-year-old ward Angelita to a new life in Montana. Awaiting them is the sprawling Slash-Bar-4 ranch and 50,000 acres of rolling range land and timbered valleys. Tap will operate in a partnership with Stack Lowery. So perfect. But the new location and occupation do hold a couple surprises. Cattle grazing in their living room. Indians camped in their yard. A notorious pack of outlaws plaguing them. A pair of inept bank robbers bumbling around. And a pacifist family being violently forced off their homestead. Tap still needs courage and his gun skills to settle this part of the West.