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Part 1 My name is Adella Smith, and I am twenty-seven years old now, but there are mornings that still come back to me with…

Part 1 Cedar Falls had dressed its cruelty in white lace. That was what Clara Wynn thought as she stood at the front of the…

Part 1 The hooded woman stood on a rain-blackened crate in the middle of Deadwood’s main street with her hands tied behind her back and…

Part 1 The first thing Elias Crowe saw when he rode into Abilene was not the church steeple, or the cattle pens, or the hotel…

Part 1 The man rode into Deadwood with dust on his coat and no name on his tongue. By then, the town had grown used…

Part 1 Most towns in the New Mexico Territory had a sheriff, or at least a man who owned a badge and knew how to…

Part 1 The girl was standing. That was what stopped him. Not the wagon with its cracked sideboards and mud-caked wheels. Not the five armed…

Part 1 My father opened the ledger before he opened his mouth. That was how I knew the answer would be no. The study in…

Part 1 Emily Warren paid for her own birthday dinner because she had learned years ago that if she wanted something to happen without strings,…