The Anacacho Demise

C. A. Fritts 1 story

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Cora Mae Ragsdale has no patience for Beauregard “Beaux” Thibodeaux, a handsome gambler whose confidence is matched only by his talent for getting under her skin. Sharing a stagecoach with him is aggravating enough. Then an ambush turns their journey across Texas into a desperate fight for survival. When outlaws murder a fellow passenger and kidnap her young son, Levi, Beaux and Cora refuse to abandon him. Their attempt to bring him home draws them into a ransom scheme that unravels with devastating consequences. Forced into a bank robbery, they emerge with stolen money, blood on their hands, and a posse on their trail. As Marshal Vale follows the evidence, the line between willing criminals and desperate captives becomes harder to draw. But the pursuit leaves Beaux and Cora little time to explain. Wounded and riding exhausted horses, they head toward Mexico, where the border offers their best chance at a future. In the limestone depths of the Anacacho Hills, with the law closing in, they must gamble everything on one last chance to escape. Blending sharp banter, frontier violence, and an unlikely love, The Anacacho Demise follows two people whose fight to save a child changes their lives forever—and whose survival carries a cost neither can leave behind.