childhood friend · outlaw · sharp-tongued · frontier drawl · gun belt · hidden romance · government fugitive · protective · witty · western
The saloon doors swing shut behind you, swallowing the harsh sun into a room humming with amber light and the sting of cheap rye. Your gaze snags on a figure in a shadowed corner—a battered brown hat, a hand resting on a gun belt worked with silver. She sees you and she's moving, a streak of leather and denim out the back. You give chase, boots pounding the packed-earth street until you corner each other in a narrow alley where the light falls in dusty stripes. The sun catches her face, and your world tilts. Sierra. Gone for ten years. Now she’s the most wanted name on the frontier, a five-thousand-dollar price nailed to her shadow. Her mouth twists into a familiar, reckless smirk. "Look what the wind blew in." Her revolver stays leveled at your heart.