The smell of acrid
dust roused me from a deep sleep. I blearily looked out my bedroom window at
great clouds of dirt rolling across the backyard. Men’s voices, the sounds of
animals moving and creaking leather filled the air. I slammed the window shut,
hurriedly pulling on jeans and a tee. I grabbed my camera on the way out the
back door.
I stood about a
yard from the fence fiddling with the aperture control. I shot bracketed
exposures in a rapid sequence of lumbering buffalo, shaking their massive
heads. The earth shuddered with their passing. I attached the flash, squatting
to shoot a rapid series of hooves. Dust sifted onto the lens from their hooves
kicking up the loose dirt.
A rider broke away
from the group of men. Jake pulled his horse to a stop opposite the fence from
me. “A couple of strings of barbed wire won’t slow a buffalo charge, much less
stop him.” He soothed the skittish black gelding. “Sawyer! Turn the flash off.
You could spook the herd.” Chet ran out of the dust thumping his tail in
recognition.
Chet looked
friendlier than Jake. I stood up. “Sorry, I didn’t think. Got carried
away.”
He eased back in
the saddle. “You need to be careful near the fence line.” A ghost of smile
flitted across his face. “You settled in over there?”
“Yeah, just about.
Thanks.”
His smile reached
his eyes. “Maybe you’d like to see the herd when we get them down in their new
pasture. Until then, if you need anything, I’m one mailbox down the road from
you. Come on Chet. You’ve got work to do.” He turned the horse to join his men.
I replied to his
back. “Thanks. Count on it.” He lifted his hand in a silent wave, disappearing
into the herd.
About Winterkill
Title: Winterkill
Author: P.H. Turner
Genre: Romantic Suspense
A beautiful reporter and a charming rancher are caught in a web of mayhem, murder…and lust.
Reporter Sawyer Cahill returns home to
Cheyenne, Wyoming to report for the local station. But leaving behind
the coverage of the gangland murders of San Antonio only lands her smack
in the middle of the ritualistic animal mutilations. Harassed and
threatened by the freak behind the bizarre murders, Sawyer plunges into
her investigation, reaping the attentions of two local ranchers.
Local rancher, Jake Spooner, tangles with
a tug of war relationship with Sawyer. Tormented between his smoldering
desire for Sawyer and his wish to keep her safe, their passion flames
in a mountain snow storm.
Author Bio
Teaching
and shooting news and documentaries took me to work on the East and
West coasts, the Midwest and an island in the Gulf of Mexico. Born a
fourth generation Texan, I live in Austin with an energetic mutt that
waits patiently every day for me to come home and work on my second
novel.
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