Whiskey when we're dry
Larison, John
In the spring of 1885
seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbors
she cuts off her hair
binds her chest
saddles her beloved mare
and sets off across the mountains to find her outlaw brother Noah and bring him home. A talented sharpshooter herself
Jess's quest lands her in the employ of the territory's violent
capricious Governor
whose militia is also hunting Noah--dead or alive. Wrestling with her brother's outlaw identity
and haunted by questions about her own
Jess must outmaneuver those who underestimate her
ultimately rising to become a hero in her own right.
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