To Tame a Gambler

In 1880, college Professor John O'Connell arrives in Bozeman, Montana. He meets seemingly shy Grace Morgan but discovers this 'Penny Dreadful' writer is anything but proper. For Grace, gambling is a way to make a living, if one were good at it, which she was. With most of her family gone, except for her aunt and fourteen-year-old brother, she wants a better life than they'd had. Publisher Note: This story appears, also, in the Western Ways Anthology.