Clockwork Cowboy
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  • Reads 59,793
  • Votes 4,750
  • Parts 53
  • Time 5h 8m
Complete, First published Feb 17, 2016
Ten years after her family avoided imminent imprisonment by sneaking aboard an airship headed for Wyoming, Nova Radcliffe is once again on the brink of losing everything.  But things are about to get worse.
 
An outlaw has entered Little River to escape persecution from the powerfully corrupt. Jese Calhoun searches for the only man who can help him, but finds the drunk inventor long deceased, leaving his headstrong, mixed race daughter, Nova, in charge of their idyllic property. Jese soon has her where he wants her...

However, he hasn't taken into consideration his wife's stubborn streak.  They must learn to trust each other, or find themselves hanging from the noose.


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