Carly’s Revenge
Carly Barton is new to the Kansas plains – and the outlaws to be found there – when her parents are murdered by three escaped convicts. Two of them rape her brutally, but think she is harmless, so they let the beautiful young woman live. Big. Mistake.
With hair shorn, “Carl” Barton rides to town in search of someone who can teach her to shoot. She is referred to a washed-up gunman who can be easily found at the Red Rooster saloon. Clay Daggert tells Carly to forget hunting her rapists down. They will just kill her. Then he relents, for he’d tracked down and killed his own brother’s murderer. Turns out, there was a $500 bounty on the man’s head. Clay embarked on a gunman’s life, but stress drove him to drink. Despite his derelict appearance, Clay takes on the adept student, and he cleans up well too.
David Osborne’s Carly’s Revenge is a fast-paced historical western, authored by a teacher and lifelong Old West buff. Mr. Osborne has a smooth style and a great eye for detail. His story line isn’t complex, but his winsome characters keep me rooting for Clay’s redemption and wishing Carly success.
