Saturday Snippet: He's a Bad One

The following is from my second book in my Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series, A Resurrected Heart . 

Beth stopped cutting flour into her lard and peeked out of the doorway. The men had settled in their seats and several stared at the doorway with expectation. One sitting with his back to the wall, catching her eye, slammed his open palm on the tabletop.

“Hey! You gonna take our order?”

The man who yelled at her appeared to be well into his liquor. But, it was the one next to him that made her blood run cold. He fixed a stare on her and Beth could tell he proceeded to undress her with his eyes.

He’s a bad one.

Still, she had a job to do. It was best to let them know right from the start that she was a cook, not an upstairs girl.

“Yes, Gus, I’m on my way.”

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Saturday Snippet: She Didn't Like It One Bit

The following is from my second book in my Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series, A Resurrected Heart . 

Beth thought back on the night she had taken Josh in. It was the same day that Val had brought her the hatching eggs and asked her to be his valentine. She had agreed. Even though she wasn’t sure she wanted to marry again soon, if ever, she has also told Val that he could call her by her first name and officially court her.

A month and a half later, Beth still wasn’t sure she was ready to marry and let a man have the kind of power over her that the law allowed. Val hadn’t asked her to marry him yet, for which she felt grateful. But, he visited with her every time he brought a sleigh-load of supplies up to Lundy. She looked forward to seeing him each time. They spent as much time together as she could arrange before he needed to leave to return to his ranch.

Beth knew Val loved her. She feared she was in love with him. She didn’t like that idea one bit.

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Saturday Snippet: If They Want the Other Kind of Woman...

The following is from my second book in my Eastern Sierra Brides 1884 series. A Resurrected Heart is about "Resurrection Day" in Lundy, California in April, 1884. It has nothing to do with the resurrection associated with Easter.

Beth shook her head. When she first started serving the miners who had wintered over, it had taken a few sharply-spoken words on her part and a few slashes through the air by Gus with his meat cleaver to convince the men that Beth was a respectable widow who worked as a cook only. Only once since being in Lundy had she felt the need to pull her father’s old hunting knife from the sheath she kept strapped to the calf of her leg with its tip tucked into the top of her boot. So far, she had not needed to pull from her pocket her double-barrel Derringer to persuade the men to keep their hands to themselves and watch what they said around her.

But, an entirely new group of miners were pouring into town. Many were good family men who left their wives and children in towns like Bodie or Carson City in order to find top-paying work in the mines. Others were drifters and trouble-makers who saw the mines as a means to build up a cache in order to move on to someplace more exciting. She wondered with this new bunch how long she would need to stand her ground in order to convince the men that she expected to be treated like the respectable widow she was. If they wanted the other kind of women, the kind that out-numbered the wives, daughters and other decent women in town, the Arcade was not the place for them. Like her late husband, they needed to go two blocks down towards the lake past China Charley’s and over a block or two.

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