While searching for revenge and new life in the Wild West, you fall in love with Charles Smith. (Charles fanart on cover credit: SAINTEMARVEL) ***Cross-posted on AO3 (@reiners_bottom_bitsh)

The old lady smiled, thinking of her long-time lost lover. They were young, fiery and full of ideals, at the dawn of a new world that was, despite their will, already there. Arthur, John, Mary-Beth and all the others. She remembered them as it was yesterday. It was now time to tell their story. -- Contain: Romance with a gang member, violence, spoilers Version française : Outlaws - Une jeunesse Américaine

She had been going it alone for three years, since her mother had passed away. She had been learning to survive and doing what she NEEDED to do to survive, no matter the consequences. She knew how to lie low and hide from the law, and she became a very skilled thief and con artist. She was alone, though, with no family left to turn to for help - or so she thought, until she stumbled across an opportunity of a lifetime.