Blue Finds a Home: A Thunder Mountain Story: Thunder Mountain

By Dean Wesley Smith

Jennifer Betsy Stevens Blue, a traveler from the Historical Institute in the future, 2022 to be precise, watches a man try to cross a run-off swollen creek and not make it.

Rescuing him from the biting cold waters proves to be very interesting. And opens up more secrets than she might imagine. A gripping Thunder Mountain story that adds in yet another detail about the possible future of all humanity that can only be saved from the past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Mar 24, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201846800

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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Blue Finds a Home

BLUE FINDS A HOME

A THUNDER MOUNTAIN STORY

DEAN WESLEY SMITH

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BLUE FINDS A HOME

A THUNDER MOUNTAIN STORY

Jennifer Betsy Stevens Blue, aka just simply Blue, sat on the uneven surface of a fallen tree limb and watched the last embers of her fire fade as she sipped her morning coffee. The sun had lit up the snow-covered tops of the mountains towering around her, but was still hours from even attempting to warm this narrow valley floor.

The roaring of Monumental Creek’s spring run-off twenty feet from her camp smothered any sound a bird or the slight breeze might make. Her camp was just a half a mile up Monumental from Big Creek, which was flowing even higher than Monumental and honestly looked far too dangerous to try to cross. Thankfully, she hadn’t needed to.

She had managed to find a spot back off the trail with a slight ridgeline blocking anyone on the trail seeing her fire. She was already dressed in woman-of-means riding clothes for this period in time and had her saddle rifle leaning against the limb beside her.

Around her the mountain pine looked like walls of