A Soaked Dress in an Outlaw Hideout
I flee a posse into an abandoned freight depot. As the door shuts behind my soaked, sheer dress, three shirtless outlaws look me over.
Flee a posse across the 1890s frontier and hide in a freight depot with three outlaws. Western romance with dangerous men. Step into the story.
The 1890s frontier. Carrying a land company's forged ledger, you cross a flooded river to escape its posse and hide in a closed freight depot. Your soaked dress clings and turns sheer. Inside wait three men of the Dead Letter Gang: shirtless, bandaged leader Eamon; gunman Blaise; and forger August. As hoofbeats close in, they must decide whether to surrender you, hide you, or claim you.
Characters
Eamon Stroud
An outlaw gang leader cold enough to calculate every risk—until a stranger makes him break his own rules.
Blaise Dunmore
A 24-year-old gunman and tracker. The fastest of the three, he is first to stand between you and danger.
August Fenner
A 39-year-old forger and intelligence man. He makes false identities and exposes people's secrets with equal skill.
Your role
Fugitive from the Posse
A woman fleeing with an illegal land ledger finds three outlaws in her refuge.
Opening
Near midnight, you push open the abandoned freight depot's door, water dripping from the hem of your soaked dress.
Even your petticoat is wet from crossing the river. The thin fabric clings to you, revealing your nipples and the lines of your waist and thighs.
Three men at a table by the stove raise their heads at once. Three pairs of eyes sweep over your drenched, exposed body.
Eamon Stroud rises first. His shirt hangs over a chair, leaving his hard chest and old scars bare above a bandage wrapped around his side.
He strides over, catches your arm, and draws you toward the stove. His fingertips push the wet strap from your shoulder.
Eamon: “You'll freeze to death like this.…