The Outlaw's Vow
An Unreliable Narrator, Deadly Conspiracy Biker MC RomanceBy Jax Holloway
Length8h 41m
About this audiobook
The axle is cracked clean through, the iron split near the hub, and the stage leaves in three hours. Clara Whitfield is halfway across the yard to saddle the mare and ride for the telegraph office when she sees the dust.
A rider comes up the canyon road on a black horse with a white blaze. Lean, dark-haired, a jagged scar cutting across his left cheekbone like somebody had drawn a line and meant it. He wants water and pays a silver dollar for it.
*Stage station's for paying customers.*
Inside, Clara finds her son under the bed with his slate clutched to his chest. Thomas is deaf, and his hands move fast: *Man. Outside. Bad man. He has a star. Like Papa's.*
The star on the stranger's vest is the tin kind. The kind a child would draw.
Ruth Padilla, who cooks for the passengers and does not waste words, has a theory about it. Men who wear fake stars and have real scars are either running from something or running toward something.
So Clara takes the shotgun off the wall, walks out, and warns him that if he touches anything he shouldn't she will put a hole in him to match the one already in his saddlebag. Jace stays and fixes the axle instead. He works without wasted motion and will not say where he learned it beyond *Army*.
Then Thomas comes out into the yard, and Jace signs thank you to him, and the boy's eyes go round, because nobody out here signs.
Jace rides off. Clara finds a small round hole low in the side of the water barrel, splintered inward, the wood still warm.
He took a badge under Marshal Thorn, the man who runs this county, to find his own brother's killer, and he has spent four winters running since. What he is chasing is a gold shipment out of the Comstock lode, a carpetbag he was told held paperwork, and a tracker who was shot in the back beside it. When Thorn's riders come through the station carrying a photograph, Clara recognizes the face. It is her husband.
This is a western historical romance: a widow holding a stage road, a deaf boy who sees everything and draws it, and a fugitive who tells the truth several days too late. The romance is closed-door.
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GenreRomance
Length8 hrs 41 mins
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LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Horse I Didn’t Steal
3Chapter 2 - The Star That Weighs a Corpse
4Chapter 3 - The Storm That Brought Him Back
5Chapter 4 - The One Who Listens
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6Chapter 5 - The Half-Truth I Told Her
7Chapter 6 - The Gift of a Sign
8Chapter 7 - The Dance of the Dead
9Chapter 8 - The Wound I Lied About
10Chapter 9 - The Stitch That Holds Us
11Chapter 10 - The Picture on the Slate
12Chapter 11 - The Deputy’s Calling Card
13Chapter 12 - The Truth I Should Have Told
14Chapter 13 - The Rocking Horse’s Secret
15Chapter 14 - The Betrayer’s Apology
16Chapter 15 - The Vow I Made to a Ghost
17Chapter 16 - The Fire That Binds Us
18Chapter 17 - The Map Is a Trap
19Chapter 18 - The Saloon’s Underground
20Chapter 19 - The Price of Proof
21Chapter 20 - The One I Couldn’t Protect
22Chapter 21 - The Canyon’s Dead End
23Chapter 22 - The Stand That Cost Us
24Chapter 23 - The Crevice That Hides Us
25Chapter 24 - The Bell That Rings for Liars
26Chapter 25 - The Colt That Came for Us
27Chapter 26 - The Trade I Could Never Make
28Chapter 27 - The Lie That Can’t Die
29Chapter 28 - The Gold That Was Never Ours
30Chapter 29 - The Promise of a Porch
31Chapter 30 - The Colt That Stayed
32Epilogue
33About the Author
34The End
35About the Author
36Also by Jax Holloway
37Acknowledgements
38A Note from the Author
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