![]() ![]() The story opens with eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson discovering that her father has been murdered by the Rose Riders, a gang of brutal criminals led by Waylon Rose. That’s also where the similarities end, because in terms of personality our girl Kate is nothing like Samantha from UaPS. ➽ Travels with one other girl and a pair of related young men (cousins or brothers) of which one is serious, one is light-hearted ![]() ➽ Heroines whose stories begin after the unnatural deaths of their fathers ➽ Setting of 19th-century Wild West complete with cowboys I read this book right after Stacey Lee’s Under a Painted Sky, so the similarities between these two books basically hit me over the head with a hammer. But as Kate gets closer to the secrets about her family, a startling truth becomes clear: some men will stop at nothing to get their hands on gold, and Kate’s quest for revenge may prove fatal. What she finds are untrustworthy strangers, endless dust and heat, and a surprising band of allies, among them a young Apache girl and a pair of stubborn brothers who refuse to quit riding in her shadow. When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the location of a hidden gold mine, eighteen-year-old Kate Thompson disguises herself as a boy and takes to the gritty plains looking for answers-and justice. ![]()
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