Whirlwind Baby
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West Texas, 1885
Jake Ross would rather eat barbed wire than have anything to do with a kid, but thanks to the supposed “dying woman†who’d left a baby at his door three days ago, he was inter- viewing applicants for a baby nurse and housekeeper.
On this hot August afternoon, everyone except his cousin, Georgia, had taken off faster than a six-legged jackrabbit. She and Jake were in the large front room of the ranch house. Georgia sat in one of the wide leather chairs at the end of the deer-hide sofa as Jake spoke to a tall woman with a British accent. Miz Alma Halvorson was the first person to respond to the ads that he and his uncle had posted in Whirlwind after determining no one there could or would take the infant.
Jake let Georgia keep an eye on the little girl sleeping on the bearskin rug in front of the rock fireplace while he asked questions. Which was a chore because he could barely think past the hammering in his head. He’d spent Saturday after- noon in a bottle, just as he did ... read full excerpt from Whirlwind Baby ebook
