Gold's Prospect
(2025)(The seventh book in the Marshal Micah Gold Western series)
A Story by Jeff Crawford
Marshal Micah Gold is a man who, for the first time in longer than he can remember, is anxiously awaiting the rising of the next sun. He can finally distance himself from his work as a marshal in order to spend a couple of weeks alone and catching the occasional fish in quiet and serene solitude. That was the plan anyway, until a note summoned him to meet with his superior.
A woman had been abducted off a stage when it stopped at a relay station. A note of ransom was left in her place. Had this been a typical case of abduction, it likely would have been tasked to some other marshal, perhaps one with more experience with these type matters, but this was no typical abduction. The person who had stolen the woman asked for no money in exchange for her return; what he demanded was Micah Gold himself.
Unwilling to consider his own safety ahead of the woman's, Gold refuses all offers of help or escort and leaves immediately for a brutal and barren area far to the southwest where a village once stood. It was known as Agua de la Muerte or Water of the Dead. Most folks that recall the place simply call it Dead Water. Working off the assumption that all that has been done was done as steps in a plan of vengeance, Gold will use all of his wits and caution as he races against time to save the woman, and also to put an end to whatever this person has in mind. He harbors no fear of trading his life for hers, but finding out who took her and why will unsettle the marshal as nothing ever has before, but the largest shock is yet to come. One of such grand proportions that stopping the one who took her becomes the only thing in this world that matters.
Genre: Western
A woman had been abducted off a stage when it stopped at a relay station. A note of ransom was left in her place. Had this been a typical case of abduction, it likely would have been tasked to some other marshal, perhaps one with more experience with these type matters, but this was no typical abduction. The person who had stolen the woman asked for no money in exchange for her return; what he demanded was Micah Gold himself.
Unwilling to consider his own safety ahead of the woman's, Gold refuses all offers of help or escort and leaves immediately for a brutal and barren area far to the southwest where a village once stood. It was known as Agua de la Muerte or Water of the Dead. Most folks that recall the place simply call it Dead Water. Working off the assumption that all that has been done was done as steps in a plan of vengeance, Gold will use all of his wits and caution as he races against time to save the woman, and also to put an end to whatever this person has in mind. He harbors no fear of trading his life for hers, but finding out who took her and why will unsettle the marshal as nothing ever has before, but the largest shock is yet to come. One of such grand proportions that stopping the one who took her becomes the only thing in this world that matters.
Genre: Western
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