A Long Trail Rolling is Book One of The Long Trails series of unpretentious, eminently readable Historical Fiction by horse vet-author Lizzi Tremayne. The beginning of Chapter 6 is my #SixSentenceSunday offering for today!
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Would you like an excerpt? Here you go: From 1860 Utah…
The body held her fast, whispering roughly for her to keep quiet, while she was bustled into a darkened gap a few feet away. Aleksandra heard a bolt slide home, then her heart froze in her chest at the sound of shouting men, squealing saloon doors and heavy boots at a run outside the door. As they slowly faded into the distance, she took a deep breath and looked around her in the darkness.
The grate of a stove scraped open, showing a glowing bed of coals. Its light revealed her savior as the brunette from the saloon.
The woman set a twig atop the coals and lit the lamp.
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Book One in the series.
A dangerous job.
Is it a convenient escape route… or a death trap?
Aleksandra flees through 1860s Utah disguised as a Pony Express rider, trying to keep her father’s killer from discovering their family secret.
Xavier, runaway heir to a Californio rancho, usually keeps the world at arms-length, but it doesn’t take long to discover his new rider-recruit is a girl—one he wouldn’t mind letting get close.
The cards are stacking up against them. Can they learn to trust in time to escape the Indians on the warpath, evade the killer, and win through to safety?
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Lizzi Tremayne
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