Historical/Paranormal/Western Romance
Date Published: 5/30/2013
Fate has brought them together, but will a promise tear them apart?
In the
small town of Willow Creek, Colorado, Nora Rushton spends most of her
days locked up in her home with a father who resents her and fighting
off unwanted marriage proposals from the wealthy Elwood Calhoun. Marked
as a witch, Nora must hide her healing powers from those who wish to
destroy all the witkowin—crazy women. What she doesn't know is that a
bounty hunter is hot on her trail.
Lakota
native Otakatay has an obligation to fulfill. He has been hired to kill
the witkowin. In a time when race and difference are a threat and
innocence holds no ground, courage, love and honor will bring Nora and
Otakatay together as they fight for their freedom. Will the desire to
fulfill his promise drive Otakatay to kill Nora? Or will the kindness he
sees in her blue eyes push him to be the man he once was?
EXCERPT
Colorado Mountains, 1880
The blade slicing his throat made no sound, but the dead body
hitting the ground did. With no time to stop, he hurried through the
dark tunnel until he reached the ladder leading out of the shaft.
He’d been two hundred feet below ground for ten days, with no food
and little water. Weak and woozy, he stared up the ladder. He’d have to
climb it and it wasn’t going to be easy. He wiped the bloody blade on
his torn pants and placed it between his teeth. Scraped knuckles and
unwashed hands gripped the wooden rung.
The earth swayed. He closed his eyes and forced the spinning in his
head to cease. One thin bronzed leg lifted and came down wobbly. He
waited until his leg stopped shaking before he climbed another rung.
Each step caused pain, but was paired with determination. He made it to
the top faster than he’d thought he would. The sky was black and the air
was cool, but fresh. Thank goodness it was fresh.
He took two long breaths before he emerged from the hole. The
smell from below ground still lingered in his nostrils; unwashed bodies,
feces and mangy rats. His stomach pitched. He tugged at the rope around
his hands. There had been no time to chew the thick bands around his
wrists when he’d planned his escape. It was better to run than crawl,
and he chewed through the strips that bound his feet instead. There
would be time to free his wrists later.
He pressed his body against the mountain and inched toward the
shack. He frowned. A guard stood at the entrance to where they were. The
blade from the knife pinched his lip, cutting the thin skin and he
tasted blood. He needed to get in there. He needed to say goodbye. He
needed to make a promise.
The tower bell rang mercilessly. There was no time left. He pushed
away from the rocky wall, dropped the knife from his mouth into his
bound hands, aimed and threw it. The dagger dug into the man’s chest. He
ran over, pulled the blade from the guard and quickly slid it across
his throat. The guard bled out in seconds.
He tapped the barred window on the north side of the dilapidated
shack. The time seemed to stretch. He glanced at the large house not
fifty yards from where he stood. He would come back, and he would kill
the bastard inside.
He tapped again, harder this time, and heard the weak steps of
those like him shuffling from inside. The window slid open, and a small
hand slipped out.
“Toksha ake—I shall see you again,” he whispered in Lakota.
The hand squeezed his once, twice and on the third time held tight before it let go and disappeared inside the room.
A tear slipped from his dark eyes, and his hand, still on the
window sill, balled into a fist. He swallowed past the sob and felt the
burn in his throat. His chest ached for what he was leaving behind. He
would survive, and he would return.
Men shouted to his right, and he crouched down low. He took one last look around and fled into the cover of the forest.
Kat Flannery's love of history shows in her novels. She is an avid
reader of historical, suspense, paranormal, and romance. When not
researching for her next book, Kat can be found running her three sons
to hockey and lacrosse. She has her Certificate in Freelance and
Business Writing. A member of many writing groups, Kat enjoys promoting
other authors on her blog. She's been published in numerous periodicals.
Her debut novel CHASING CLOVERS has been on Amazon's Bestsellers list
many times and was #62 over all their titles. LAKOTA HONOR and HAZARDOUS
UNIONS are Kat's other two books and both have made bestseller lists.
Kat is currently hard at work on her next book.
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