Profile Gap: A Thunder Mountain Short Story

By Dean Wesley Smith

Institute traveler, Sharon Kent, wants to keep a man who existed in the past alive. She likes him, and they had set a date for dinner before he was killed.

But in timeline after timeline, she keeps going back to find out what happened to him. Finally, she discovers he died in a mine cave-in in every timeline. And thus always stood her up for their date.

But this time, with the help of Duster Kendal, she hopes to rescue him.

And maybe then he will make their date.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Mar 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393388227

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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Profile Gap

Profile Gap

A Thunder Mountain Short Story

Dean Wesley Smith

WMG Publishing, Inc.

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Chapter One

Sharon Kent sat on her horse, tucked back into the shade of a stand of tall pine along the edge of Profile Creek. The August sun was beating down into the mountain valley, making the air smell like hot pine and making her drink a lot more water than normal.

Down the valley was Profile Lake, just about as beautiful a small mountain lake as there could be. She had camped on its