A Bad Place to Die

Name: A Bad Place to Die
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Easy Jackson
ISBN: 9781977385048

Author: Easy Jackson

Series: Tennessee Smith Western #1

Narrator: Johanna Parker

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/30/2018

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Western

Synopsis

There aren't many options for an eighteen-year-old girl in the Old West. Especially an orphan like Tennessee Smith. She can either sell her body in a seedy saloon or take her chances as a mail-order bride. Tennie chooses the latter. Joining a wagonload of women across Indian territory, she arrives in the God-forsaken town of Ring Bit, Texas. Her husband-to-be is surprisingly decent. But after tying the knot in a quickie ceremony, he pops even more surprises on her. First, he introduces Tennie to his three young sons. Then he drops dead on their wedding night . . .

Some women would hightail it out of there. Not Tennie. She'll do whatever it takes to save the ranch and raise those boys. Rusty is thirteen, Lucas is ten, and Badger is six. They need a mother. Tennie needs a job. And the town needs a marshal. Sure, the local gamblers, outlaws, and thieves have no use for the law. Then again, they never met a lawman, or woman, like Tennessee Smith . . .

About Easy Jackson

Easy Jackson (a.k.a. Vicky J. Rose) has written articles for Round-Up Magazine, the Tombstone Times, and many other publications. Her short story "Testimony" from the Broken Promises Western anthology was nominated for a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laur on October 13, 2021

This gal isn’t really Sheriff material….seeking to get away from an abusive orphanage, she unknowingly “signs up”, it was only later she realized she signed up to be a mail order bride. Things go bad early enough when her brand new husband dies soon after her arrival, leaving her with 3 of the most r......more

Goodreads review by Guy on November 07, 2018

It started out slow and I didn’t find the mechanism by which Tennie became Marshal believable. With the appearance of the mysterious Wash toward the end of the first chapter, things started to pickup. Widowed after a few hours of marriage, Tennie takes on the responsibility of raising her newly acqui......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on October 07, 2018

I had very high hopes for this book. I thought the premise was a little odd and if I considered it, a little unbelievable. The cover was interesting, so I blazed ahead. By the end of the first chapter, I wanted to slap the spit out of the main character, Tennesee, known as Tennie throughout the book.......more

Goodreads review by Shanell on November 15, 2018

So many twists and turns! Can’t wait to read the rest of the series! I love that this is a woman based western novel. I loved following Tennie and her boys on the wild adventure they were thrown into. Tennie is 18 years old, after being raised in an orphanage, and barely escaping a harrowing situati......more

Goodreads review by Sandra Whittiker on April 19, 2019

A Bad Place to Die (A Tennessee Smith Western) Tennie was just in bad place and she had three resentful boys to raise who weren't that much younger than herself. Now she's a sheriff with things going on that she truly don't understand. I laughed and cried at the antics that her boys got into, and the......more