“An Inconvenient Gamble“ (Barbour, May, 2013)
This is the tale of a reformed gambler grappling with his past as a Civil War prisoner, in 1867 Texas. When he meets the widow of a man who led him to do a terrible deed, Charles Moss has to confront how best to make things right for a family he wronged with a poor bet. Jenny Duncan is forced to make hard choices when her father and husband both die of yellow fever and she must take over the horse ranch, the rearing of her two teenage brothers and a crochety mother-in-law. Then she discovers she is pregnant.
How will the two find their way to happiness as Charles fights the urge to gamble and Jenny struggles to keep the ranch running?
What led me to write An Inconvenient Gamble is further discussed here.
