Aunt Liv had warned her about Deadwood.

"Such a rough and tumble town," her aunt had said. "You shouldn't be taking this trip alone. It's no place for someone as young and pretty as you."

Amy had almost laughed. More than once, she'd heard the girls at school say she was plain. That was then. She'd given up on being a wife and a mother when she passed her twenty-second birthday.

Andrew Reese, however thought differently. Wondering what such a lovely young woman was doing in a place such as Deadwood, he knew what usually happened to young women who were stranded here.

And he was determined it wouldn't happen to her.

Publisher's note: This novella was previously published in the Anthology entitled

Lost and Found in Deadwood, in April of 2023.