A Marshal's Destiny!

     A Marshal’s Destiny! ©2011 by Raymond Cook is a 268 page eBook story about a Deputy U. S. Marshal by the name of Jason Chaney. Jason was a sheriff in the town of Marble, Colorado in 1892 when a Deputy U. S. Marshal walked into his office and asked if he’d like to work for the marshal’s office in Denver. With the help of two former gunfighter’s, David Liley and Annie Coulter, Jacob becomes a faster lawman and is sworn in as a Deputy Marshal. During his first year, Jason was ‘Partnered up’ with a seasoned deputy before being assigned to handle cases on his own.

     Two years later Jason is sent to New Castle to investigate a series of gold shipment robberies from stagecoaches destined for the Denver Mint. However, along the way, he comes across a group of men getting ready to hang some Ute Indians hunting deer and he intervenes. During the shoot-out, Jason is wounded and takes the only remaining injured Indian back to his village, where he meets a white woman also in their village.

     After they both recover, he takes her to the town of Rifle and heads toward New Castle and comes across a widow’s ranch at dusk and asks to spend the night. But just after he puts his horse in the barn, several Shoshone Indians attack the ranch and Jason is once again wounded. Roxanne O’Reilly & her three small children, Alexandra age 7, Matthew age 6 and Lauren, age 3 help him to recover and a love is formed between Jason and Roxanne.

     By the time Jason reaches New Castle, he tries to put the pieces of the puzzle together to learn who is behind the stagecoach robberies. After a relentless attack at the bank, as the last of the gang are arrested and being transported back to Denver by train for trial, Jason is almost killed during an escape attempt. Once back in Denver, Jason turns in his badge and sets out to be reunited back with Roxanne and her three children.

This is my 4th of 22 western frontier eBooks written since 2011.