Gunslinger's Grave
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Last published Thu, Mar 10, 2016
Sacramento, California, 1861. The West, especially California, is still reeling from the Gold Rush. Rosalie Stahl spends her days helping her family maintain their boarding house, whilst awaiting her fiancé's return from a business trip. Things are monotonous, the same, until they are not. Rosalie's life is forever changed when a band of unassuming men descend upon Sacramento in a flurry of gunpowder, treachery, and whispered Spanish words. Rosalie Stahl must discover her identity and desires amongst confusion and peril, danger and disaster.
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