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It takes more than a badge to keep the peace in a lawless hellhole like Ring Bit, Texas. It takes guts, grit, gunslinging - and one hell of a woman . . . MEET TENNESSEE SMITH: SHE SHOOTS FROM THE HIP. There aren't many options for an eighteen-year-old girl in the Old West. Especially an orphan like Tennessee Smith. She can either sell her body in a seedy saloon or take her chances as a mail-order bride. Tennie chooses the latter. Joining a wagonload of women across Indian territory, she arrives in the God-forsaken town of Ring Bit, Texas. Her husband-to-be is surprisingly decent. But after tying the knot in a quickie ceremony, he pops even more surprises on her. First, he introduces Tennie to his three young sons. Then he drops dead on their wedding night .
About the Author
Easy Jackson is the pseudonym for Vicky J Rose, who also writes under VJ Rose. She's a country girl through and through, born and raised in what was once the wildest of old west towns in Texas. She's held a variety of jobs, including door to door census worker, grocery store clerk, temporary tax accessor field worker, barbershop owner and operator, opening mail for the IRS and hoping it was coffee stains on those tax returns and not something else. In midlife, she somehow managed to earn a degree in journalism from a small West Texas university. Since then, she's published in numerous nonfiction anthologies, written articles for magazines and newspapers, authored several books and a screenplay that won semi-finalist in a national contest. A 2014 Spur finalist for short fiction, she's active in the Western Writers of America, the Western Fictioneers, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the McDade Historical Society. When she's not writing, she's gardening, playing with her terrier-mix Hondo, Bob the cat, and trying to stay out of the way lizards, snakes, armadillos, and various other critters that roam her property.
