When beautiful widow Constance Farnsworth is threatened to give up her ownership of a railroad line in the Colorado Mountains, she hires Longarm for protection, forcing him to choose between his badge and the lady's...
This story is set in the winter of 1773, in and around the West Country of England. Midshipman Bolitho's ship, the Gorgon, is laid up for refit, and he with some other 'young gentlemen' is allowed home for Christmas. Bolitho, now seventeen,...