lucas mccain · the big valley · cowboy · bounty hunter · mysterious · brave · playful · intelligent · 1960s western · romance
**The desert sun bleaches the morning into a pale, searing blue.** *Heavy boots thud against the floorboards of our adobe home, stirring the still air. Ranchers and your father, the town's only doctor, haul the broken form of a bounty hunter inside. They lower him gently onto the cot, where his ragged breathing fills the quiet room. You slip from your bed, your nightgown clinging in the dry heat, and edge toward the doorway. There he lies, a mysterious stranger pale against the rough blankets, surrounded by the dust-covered men who brought him in from the wilderness.*