The Curse of Scáthach

By Tamsin Silver

Will McCarty has returned to New Mexico for the first time since he "died" in 1881. While in town for a job, memories come flooding back and the murder of his boss, John Tunstall, still plagues him.

The death of The Englishman ignited the Lincoln County War of 1878. This story of revenge and greed has been told many different ways, but Will knows the truth, and it's time others did too.

Go back to when crooked politicians, mafia mentality, and dirty lawmen were the demons that ran the Wild West, and walk alongside the reluctant hero who decided it was time their reign ended.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tamsin Silver
• Release date: Jun 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310867361

Tamsin Silver

Tamsin L. Silver is a New York City based author who works in multiple creative platforms. Other than her two YA Urban Fantasy Series (Windfire and Mark of the Necromancer) she is the creator/writer for the web series, Skye of the Damned, produced by VampireFreaks.com and Small Town Pictures, and a writer for www.MagicalWords.net (a blog for fantasy writers by published fantasy writers).Each year she sells her books and speaks about writing, acting/directing, and producing on panels at conventions like Con*Carolinas (Charlotte, NC) and Dragon*Con (Atlanta, GA). She also can sometimes be found just selling her books at other conventions along the East Coast (specifically the NY area). All of her e-books and short stories in e-format can be found here on Smashwords, as well as on Amazon, iBooks, and Barnes and Noble while print copies are exclusively through Amazon or from meeting Tamsin herself at any convention she attends.While on the writing path, Tamsin graduated from Winthrop University with a BA in Theatre and a Secondary Education, as well as a minor in Creative Writing and Shakespeare. She has taught both middle school and high school drama, run two award winning theater companies, and has a rewarding day job working for a non-profit hospital in the city. She loves dogs, anything flavored orange, and has never met a mac-n-cheese she didn't love.For more about Tamsin you can visit her website (www.tamsinsilver.com) where there are links to all of her books, projects, blog writings, and where you can see the first three episodes of Skye of the Damned for free in SD. The full HD versions of Episodes 1-6 can be found on Vimeo.com or by visiting www.SkyeOfTheDamned.com or the SKYE Facebook page: http://facebook.com/SkyeOfTheDamned/.

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The Curse of Scáthach

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Tamsin L. Silver

Dedication

I want to dedicate this to Misty Massey and Carmen Baum.

Without Misty’s project (The Weird Wild West) I wouldn’t have pushed myself to write this and in the end, I loved this concept so much that it is now in the process of becoming a full length novel. In fact, I’m so in love with this story, that I am heading to New Mexico to do on-sight research this summer. This is a project of a lifetime and it happened because of her words of encouragement on the concept, among other things.

Carmen has been my biggest cheerleader on this project and my other new book (Mark of the Necromancer). She gives me great advice and helps me get out of my own head-of-doom (aka kicking my ass when I need it). As a writer, friends like this are so very important. An extra bonus? She also happens to be family.

Love you both! – Tamsin

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Copyright Tamsin L. Silver, June 2015. All Rights Reserved. www.tamsinsilver.com

Names, characters, and incidents depicted in this story are products of a mixture of both actual history (during the Lincoln County War of 1878) and the author's imagination. Though 98% of the history in this story is based on fact, the author would ask the reader to remember that this is Historical Fantasy, so if an error in history is found, it is likely there on purpose.

The author did her best to keep the historical facts as exact as she could get them. However, seeing as there are varying recollections of the events that took place during the war, often she had to choose which she felt worked best for the story, and move on.

No part of this story may be reproduced in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the author.

Published in the United States of America.

March, 1949

It’s weird to be dead.

Or rather, it’s a strange feelin’ when the world thinks you’re dead and yet, here you are, walkin’ around, saving the world from evil…well, I best not get ahead of things. Let me introduce myself. My name is Will McCarty, or it is for the time being.

I arrived in New Mexico today for a job and it’s the first time I’ve been here since I died in 1881. The memories flooding my brain make it hard to concentrate on the current task at hand, so I thought I’d write them down. I never have before, which is odd, I know. With all I’ve seen and done, one would assume I keep better records.

They say to start at the very beginning. That would be where I tell you I was born in 1859 to a poor Irish woman in New York City, that she died when I was about fourteen, and that I was a good kid when it all began…but that shit is boring and no one, not even me, wants to rehash it. What needs rememberin’ is the