Tess Mercury and the Wanton Wife

By Eleanor Prophet

Tess Mercury and her posse are the best damn bounty hunters in the west. This is the story of how Lightning Hazel Harley with her arsenal of death rays, stun guns, incendiary devices, explosives and irradiated lizard spit joined the gang and helped them capture the infamous Chicago loan shark, Rudy the Roll Ricone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DC Press
• Release date: Jun 28, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301159314

Eleanor Prophet

Eleanor Prophet is the author of the Astrid Darby Adventures series, including Astrid Darby and the Eye of Ra and Astrid Darby and the Laughing Coffin. She is an author, columnist, editor, lady of leisure and amateur sleuth. When she isn’t writing books, short stories, essays and articles of questionable veracity, she is typically enjoying the attentions of Mr Prophet, a dashing international man of mystery and intrigue. Her favourite activities include larking about, rule-breaking, mischief-making and getting to the bottom of things. She often receives fascinating, comical and occasionally disturbing mail to her desk and publishes it for the public’s information, entertainment and frequent outrage.

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Tess Mercury and the Wanton Wife

Or How Tess Mercury met Lightning Hazel

By Eleanor Prophet

Copyright 2013 by Eleanor Prophet

Published by Eleanor Prophet at Smashwords

www.ellieprophet.wordpress.com

You Tess Mercury?


I swiped the back of my hand across my face to wipe away the moist, stray strands of dark hair sticking to my forehead. The sun beat down on the barren Arizona desert. I squinted through the sweat dripping into my eyes from under the bandana covering my sopping hair.

The man coming towards me across the packed, well-worn dirt of the horse corral shimmered in the heat coming off the ground like the devil come to offer me my wildest dreams in exchange for my immortal soul. He had a pointy black goatee