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by Barbara Davies
by Barbara Davies
Zee Brodie can’t seem to walk down the street without being reminded of her days as the notorious outlaw, Hellcat. Never mind she paid her dues in Yuma prison and is now the Deputy Sheriff of Cochise County.
Christie Hayes and her brother, Blue, followed their dream and headed west where Blue opened a dry goods shop. They settled into a contented life with Christie keeping house and helping part time in the shop.
When Zee and her prisoner seek shelter in the home of the enchanting Miss Christie, the encounter turns both their lives upside down. It takes Christie agreeing to marry an unsuitable suitor for her to realize where her heart really lies.
Now all Zee and Christie have to do is face down an irate fiancé, fight bad guys, replant Christie's beloved roses, and get Blue to accept his sister wanting to spend her life with a former outlaw, not to mention a woman, before they can live happily ever after.
“Davies has given us easily likeable characters in Christie and Zee. Even Zee’s darker side proves to be only a mask covering a soft, loving woman. There are a host of characters that work at the whorehouse, drink and gamble at the saloon and end up in Deputy Brodie’s jail. These folks also entertain and enthrall us.” – Anna Furtado, L-word.com & East Bay Voice
“This book, while not complete fantasy, plays fast and loose with one aspect of history, and that is the likelihood that only the Holy Rollers would take exception to a frankly lesbian sheriff’s deputy and her live-n lover in the Old West and that said deputy is a knife-throwing, pistol-shooting phenomenon that would make Wyatt Earp envious feel seriously threatened. It’s a nice dream, but it didn’t happen. But then again, that’s far from the point of this novel. The point of this novel is that it is WAY FUN.” — Kit Moss Reviews
Details
Details
Nuance
310 pp. ● 6×9
$17.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-960373-29-8 (pb)
FICTION – Western
FICTION – Lesbian
Barbara Davies was born in Birmingham, England, twenty minutes after her twin sister. She grew up in the Midlands, managed to scrape a BA from York University, worked in computing in Surrey, then moved to Gloucestershire where she’s now a writer and a book reviewer for Starburst. Barbara published her first short story in 1994. Since then, more than forty of her stories have appeared in various genre magazines, including Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Khimairal Ink, Neo-Opsis, and nanobison, and in the anthologies Ideomancer Unbound, Crossings, and F/SF Volume 1. The readers of Kimota gave one of her stories their 1999 Best Story Award.
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