Deadman's Corner©

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Written by American Author Sky Taylor

Setting: The Old West

PRELUDE

Creed Hunter

He’s out of money and fears that his nephews are out of time.

The teen twins were kidnapped and held for ransom three months ago, and almost rescued twice by Sheriff Bray Allen of Wormwood.  

Creed works as a horse rancher residing in the town of Ashland Falls which is about a day’s ride on horseback from Wormwood and for the last three months he had focused his search for the boys in that area - without success, left with a broken spirit.

He has pulled together every cent possible to meet the ransom demands by mortgaging his property. And now, there is nothing left to mortgage and hope for finding his nephews is slim at best.

Feather Fairsky

She resides in the town of Wormwood, but it has never really been home.  

She’s a doctor by trade but held hostage by the town’s sheriff and forced to sell out in order to survive.

Destiny will bring her face-to-face with Creed Hunter, a man that she is immediately drawn to.  

Are these feelings related to the near-tragic events they have experienced together, or true love?

Jim & Jessie Hunter

After months of being held hostage and one failed attempt to escape their kidnappers, the fifteen year old twins try to escape one last time.  

Will they get free before time runs out?

Peter Allen

The brother of the sheriff of Wormwood, he’s intent on having Feather for his own - now that her protective father has died. And if she remains unwilling, he’s not beneath welding force.

Sheriff Bray Allen

He managed to cover-up his brother’s crime but in doing such he had to send him away.  Will the sheriff’s resentment towards Feather Fairsky stand in the way of justice? Or does the sheriff have a few more tricks up his sleeve?

Hawk Fairsky

His mother was white, his father a Navajo and his daughter his only reason for living after the passing of his beloved Elsa due to influenza.  

This gunfighter turned doctor taught Feather well, but did he teach her well enough to survive all odds, including cheating death?  

THE STORY

Feather Fairsky tugged on the reins of the two farm mules pulling the plow, signaling them to stop.

"Whoa, fellas," she eased out and they came to an abrupt halt.

The mules had been named by her father based on their birth months – March and August and they were more along the lines of family pets than working animals. Both were exceptionally well-mannered and responded efficiently to commands.

The same applied to Johnny Turkey who was currently scurrying about, chasing grasshoppers and other delectable bugs.

Feather had been unable to resist rescuing the baby fowl when he’d been shipped to the local feed store in the town of Wormwood last spring. His being there had been an accident which had occurred amid culling.  

He’d been dyed a horrendous shade of red, Feather disliking any aspect of altering animal feathers or fur, except branding which was necessary in staking claims on one’s property.

But if she had things her way, rustlers would be branded and the pelts of animals left in their natural state.  

However, being well into her thirties she was aware that there was very little that one person could accomplish to change things.  

The world as it was turned on a troubling axis. There were still plenty of good people – trying to make the world a better, kinder place.

Like her father.

Hawk Fairsky had been successful in his later years, once his animosity had tamped down. Being half Indian had made him the target of ridicule throughout his childhood and for a good part of his adult life. He’d learned very quickly how to protect himself with his fists and a gun.

Because he was quick on the draw it had earned him the reputation of a gunfighter. Rather than waiting to be hunted or bested by a faster gun, he had hired out his services working as an Indian Agent, bringing criminals to justice.

But one winter’s day had change the course of his life forever.

A young brave named Tomaho had attempted to fight off Hawk’s attempts in taking his father into custody, insisting that the drunken man was innocent.  

Amid the struggle Tomaho’s father had managed to secure Hawk’s gun, the weapon discharging by the hand of the drunken fool after he had confiscated it from Hawk.

The young Tomaho had fallen to the raw earth, Hawk working to halt the flow of blood while the brave’s father attempted to remain in a standing position as he watched the scene play out before him, weaving to and fro due to the effects of the alcohol.

Hawk managed to save the boy’s life and the event had affected him so greatly that he started studying medicine.

From the time that Feather’s mother died until two winters ago when Hawk had succumbed of natural causes, Feather had remained a close student. Wherever he had gone, she was his shadow.

She had only been three at the time of her mother’s passing, so working beside her father was second-nature to her.

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