Saturday Snippet: A Teetotaler, Are You?

The following snippet is taken from 

Escape from Gold Mountain 

a Gold Mountain book 

          After glancing over and noticing Luke’s beverage of choice, the tall redhead snorted with derision. “A teetotaler, are you? Rather hot out for that.”

          Luke straightened to his full height. He kept his words soft and non-challenging. “Don’t need liquid courage right now, just something to cut the dust. Not sure if I can trust the water here.”

          One thing Luke had learned in his travels was that the Irish and others who had worked on railroad crews across the Great Plains had suffered bouts of cholera, dysentery, and other diseases caused by bad water. On the other hand, the Chinese railroad crews drank tea made with boiled water. They stayed healthy.

          The big red-haired man laughed. “Mayhap the truth of it is you can’t hold your liquor, eh?” He turned to the barkeeper. “Fetch me a beer. Tex, here, will have one, too.”

          The other man named Tex chuckled deep in his chest. “Y’all ain’t one to be talking about not holding liquor, Charley, not after the times y’all went plumb crazy after getting likkered up. They ever let y’all back in Lundy after the way y’all cut up that town a couple of years back?”

Escape from Gold Mountain will initially be offered on more than one vendor. The release day is scheduled for September 4, 2019. It is currently on a pre-order sale on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. On September 5th, the book will move to its regular ebook price. If you are a Nook reader, the book will only be available for Nook purchase for a short time before it will be offered digitally exclusively on Amazon and in the Kindle Unlimited program.

The book will also be offered in print format and continue to be offered for sale as a paperback on both vendors.

Here are the Kindle and Nook pre-order purchase links:

Amazon  |  Barnes & Noble

 

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