Cheyenne O'Brien
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Flies swarmed around the remains of the man’s carcass; the buzzing sound of their tiny wings magnified in the flat emptiness of the scorching desert. He had been dead for days and what was left of his rotting flesh – that which the vultures had not torn away – had begun to putrefy in the sweltering heat of the relentless sun.
As Cheyenne O’Brien stumbled to the top of a nearby sand dune, she could see the dark outline of the man’s decaying body and the tracks in the sand where he had dragged himself the last ten feet. She knelt down on one knee to rest for a moment, and tried to remember exactly how long she had been tracking Masters. As near as she could figure, it had been three years. The closest she had come to catching him had been two weeks ago, arriving in town just hours after he had left. She had been in the badlands ever since.
Her horse had given out early that morning, and although it had nearly broken her heart, she had been forced to leave the poor beast to die on the burning desert floor.
She licked her bleeding lips in a futile attempt to moisten them, then pulled herself unsteadily to her feet and approached the man. The sight of his garish silver spurs and black snakeskin hatband made her frown. Masters must have considered himself quite a dandy.
“This one’s for my horse, you bastard,” she hissed. “Too bad she’s not here to see it.”
“After I shoot ya’, I’m gonna’ skin ya’ like a snake! Then I’m gonna’ grind what’s left of your sorry ass right into the dust! Ashes to ashes – ass to dust,” she laughed again.
“Wait a minute,” she mumbled. “Masters ain’t got no tattoo.”
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From the seedy saloons of the old west through the searing heat of the badlands, Cheyenne O’Brien relentlessly stalks her bounty. She has accepted her fate with total resolve. She must find and kill Jake Masters, the man who murdered her family and took away her desire to live for anything but to see him dead.
Only when Dillon Slade enters her life does she let down her guard and allow herself to feel again. But Slade has a deadly secret and finds himself in the dangerous position of using
About the Author
K. C. Kern became interested in writing when she was a child living in various places in the south. Inspired by many great southern authors, she first put pen to paper when she was twelve years old, writing short stories and poems.
As an adult, K. C. has brought together the wildness of the old west and her love of mysteries in a gritty, dark, yet often humorous book -- Cheyenne O’Brien.
K. C. lives with her family in