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We’ve all got mistakes in our past we’d rather forget.
Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation, one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets of Saint Louis in 1872. He’s always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities, choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from a Saint Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion, his life seems securely set: a wife, a career, property, standing.
But when tragedy strikes, all of his plans and his entire future dissolve in an instant. McLendon’s instinct for survival kicks in; he flees Saint Louis, and Douglas assigns his enforcer, an ominous skull-cracker with steel-toed boots, to track him down.
With nothing to lose, McLendon attempts to reconcile with an old flame—a woman he was nearly engaged to but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles. He heard through the grapevine that she and her father moved their dry-goods store out west, to a speck-on-the-map mining town named Glorious, in the Arizona Territory. There, McLendon tries to win her back, and in the process discovers a new way of life at the edge of the final American frontier. But he can’t outrun his past forever. . . .
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Release date
May 6, 2014 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780147519887
- File size: 373108 KB
- Duration: 12:57:18
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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In a near perfect match of voice and text, David Carpenter performs the story of Cash McLendon, a street urchin in St. Louis at the time of the Civil War. Cash has a finely honed sense of survival, which eventually leads him to marry the daughter of his wealthy benefactor. However, things go sour when she dies in a tragic accident, and Cash heads out West to find an old flame in the Arizona Territory with his thug of a father-in-law in pursuit. Carpenter adroitly gives the cornucopia of characters consistent and believable voices, matching their emotions without any melodrama. He delivers the narrative sections of the story in a suitable voice that is splendid in its pacing and inflection. M.T.F. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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