Slocum 429 Slocum and the Wanton Widows of Wolf Creek [Paperback]

A lady in need is trouble indeed…

While hunting elk in the Colorado Rockies, John Slocum hears a terrible explosion followed by a frightening rumble. As he rides along the canyon, he comes upon the settlement of Wolf Creek, where an avalanche has buried all the town’s men. Their widows, meanwhile, look to Slocum for comfort.
 
But the gunslinger has his sights set on one woman in particular. While Lilith isn’t a widow, she did lose someone in the accident—a brother with connections to the claim-jumping Batson gang. Now, Slocum has to keep one eye on his gun and one on the woman sharing his bed…Jake Loganis the author of the long-running Slocum western series, featuring the adventures of gunslinger John Slocum.

“Jesus!” Val whispered, the sound seeming to be a genuine attempt at prayer as he threw his hands high. “Don’t shoot me, mister, please. I’m begging you.”

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John Slocum glassed the bull elk as it rubbed its antlers on a juniper. The tines split the bark and shredded it as the elk pawed the ground with sharp cloven hooves.

The velvet was all gone from the elk’s antlers as it marked its territory. The elk was in full rut as the autumn chill and light breeze set the yellowed aspen leaves to flutter.

He estimated the distance for the shot. He would have to move down from the rock he sat on in front of a large blue spruce. But the breeze was in his favor; it blew toward him, so the elk could not pick up his scent.

Just yet.

Even as he wet his finger and held it up to make sure that the wind was right, he felt it shift slightly from the south to the northwest.

That’s when he heard a tremendous explosion from the canyon off to his right. The ground shook beneath him, jiggled the rock on which he sat.

He grabbed his Winchester ’74 to keep it from falling from its resting place against his righl“+