Two Guns for Paradise

By Brian D. Kelling

ISBN 1-59374-016-6

Whiskey Creek Press

Lusk, Wyoming

2003, paper, 184 pages, $14.95

            Five years in Yuma at hard labor -- five years of breaking rock with a double-jack and dragging a ball and chain.  Hack was finally free, but so badly beaten by guards he lay unconscious in the road.

A family of Mormans who were passing by picked him up and cared for him.  He regained consciousness in their wagon, tended by a girl named Jenna.  Jenna Frazier was a Morman woman, but she was also thin, well built, with long black hair.

            Hank stayed with the Morman family as they traveled to Salt Lake City to let his wounds heal.  The Saints bid him goodbye by completely outfitting him for the trail.  They gave him a gray horse, a rifle and the gear he needed to live and travel.  As he left Salt Lake Hack promised to come back for Jenna. He left riding slow because his broken ribs still pained him with rough movement.  He was headed for Prescott and Giles David.  Revenge a place to hide and Jenna; that's all Hack wanted out of life. 

Two Guns for Paradise is Brian D. Kellings third in a continuing series of Westerns, all set in different states. His other books, Wind of the Mountain and The Long Canyon Mountains are also available from Whiskey Creek 

Kelling travels to each and every setting he writes about.  He explores as he researches, plots his story, and gets the feel of the country.  His work is clearly authentic.  He has owned horses; panned for gold, built his own tipi and followed the old trails. Two Guns for Paradise is a hard-hitting and fast-moving story that will keep the reader riveted to the pages until Hack and Jenna are safe.

A.H.Holt, editor

WesternFictionReview

June 2004