Welcome to the Jailhouse Saloon!
The Jailhouse is not your run-of-the-mill watering hole! In fact, it might be the only one of its kind!
Here everyone is welcome, so long as you have manners and follow the rules.
Rule 1: Be polite and don't start any fights. The staff and other patrons are not here to be your servants or put up with your problems.
Rule 2: If you can't follow Rule Number 1, you will be removed from the building, courtesy of the Marshal, his deputies, or the proprietors.
"That girl is like a shot of good whiskey: She'll go down smooth, but if you get too much of her attention she'll knock you on your face."
Whiskey Clipper is the bartender, almost partner, and peacekeeper for The Jailhouse. She grew up behind a bar and that's where she plans to stay. Her job is to make sure everyone has a good time at the Jailhouse, even if it means throwing out people twice her size. She can whip just about anything on two legs in a fistfight, she can draw and shoot better than the Marshal, and she's pretty to boot. No one messes with Whiskey.
Price Montgomery rode into town as a hired gun for the local cattle baron. He met the fiery bartender named Whiskey within minutes after he arrived. Sparks flew, but Whiskey refuses to like any man who works for Abner Baker, the man who is taking over the country with his guns for hire and high and mighty ways. Price has only ever been loyal to the money he is paid until he meets Whiskey who is no fan of gunhands. The beautiful, independent woman makes him stop and think, as does the stark realization that the men he has been hired to kill are not the true problem.
Price's decision to quit the job and join Whiskey and her friends, the farmers and ranchers that Baker despises, does not sit well with the big cattleman. This leads to leads more trouble, with Whiskey and Price caught in the crosshairs. Bullets are flying and whiskey gets spilled in this first tale about the Jailhouse Saloon.
Prison Diaries: Book 1 (complete)
A law-abiding student gets entangled with a broody inmate when she discovers there has been a miscarriage of justice. She goes in to help, but ends up breaking the first rule of interning at a prison; she falls for the inmate.
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Carter Reynolds' teenage years ended the second the gavel hit the sound block. Or maybe they ended when the police found him standing over a dead body, drenched in blood. It might even have been before that. When he connected his fist with a face that left a broken jaw in its wake. Either way, it was over. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. He accepted his fate, only promising himself to never care for anyone so intensely again.
Almost four years into his sentence, Arya Crawford walks through the wrought iron prison gates. A self-proclaimed miniature philanthropist with a heart of gold, a law-abiding student with an urge to always have fun, a girl with a silent cause. She had taken up an internship at the New York State Penitentiary.
And in time, Carter and Arya both realize something.
She had broken the first rule instructed by the warden. She had fallen for an inmate. Which meant she couldn't stay.
He had broken the promise he made to himself. He had started to care for her. Which meant he couldn't let her leave.
But it's a little difficult to make that happen when you're stuck in a closet sized cell. And waiting twenty-one years is out of the question.
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Highest Rankings: #6 in Romance, #2 in Passion, #4 in Badboy, #1 in Witty
(for those who don't think an inmate/prison trope is their cup of tea, don't be put off because the story is first and foremost 'romance')
Disclaimer**
Reader discretion advised. - Mature content
Story contains explicit language, sexual content, and physical and sexual violence.