Gunslingers and Fools
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Last published Sun, Jul 23, 2023
After a botched bank robbery, nineteen year old outlaw Avery Summers' faces a reality check when her partner-in-crime Evelyn Lockwood gets a letter from her aunt, inviting them to her luxurious mansion where Evelyn was born and raised.
Avery is thrown from a nitty gritty, rough frontier outlaw lifestyle to a luxurious manor maid one. The nit and grit is all Avery has ever known, after all, she was raised by her tough cowboy dad in the wilderness.
Will Avery be able to overcome life with a roof over her head? She can only hope. Maybe this new life will let her look into her mother's death more and maybe even her father's accusations.
Follow Avery through a journey of consequences, family truth and redemption in this bittersweet Wild West story.
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