Lottie's Luck - Lewis, Preston

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Résumé :
Long before Tombstone and the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, frontier vagabond Doc Holliday rode into the tumultuous Texas town of Fort Griffin, looking for a mysterious lady gambler, not trouble. Only after he finds both does he escape into legend. Known throughout the rough-and-tumble towns of west Texas for her beauty, female gambler Lottie Deno possesses uncanny luck at the gaming tables. Trouble, though, comes in several shapes, none more volatile nor more available than Big Nose Kate Elder, a soiled dove with a heart of bold! As Doc attempts to win Lottie's money and her heart, both he and she become pawns in a duel of saloon rivals to control Fort Griffin's gambling underworld. In this contest between gambling king and queen, Kate elder becomes the unpredictable joker, as infatuated with Doc as he is with Lottie. A model of feminine propriety except for her gambling, Lottie Deno cannot escape a terrible secret from her past. Kate cannot escape her marital ambitions. Only with the help of one of them can Doc Holliday, a man torn between love and lust, escape a lynch mob and an early grave in wicked Fort Griffin. Lottie's Luck is a revised and updated version of The Lady and Doc Holliday, originally published in 1989....

Sommaire:
Author and historian Preston Lewis has written more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works. In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments. His writing honors include two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and three Elmer Kelton Awards from the West Texas Historical Association. He has received nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards for western humor, short stories, traditional westerns and nonfiction articles. In 2024 he earned an inaugural Literary Global Independent Author Award in the Western Nonfiction category for Cat Tales of the Old West as well as two finalist designations in the Memoir and Humor categories. Lewis is best known for his eight-book comic western series The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax, which has garnered him a silver and three gold Will Rogers Medallion Awards. His nonfiction articles and short stories have appeared in True West, Wild West, Persimmon Hill, Journal of the Wild West Historical Association, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times-Herald and Louis L'Amour Western Magazine. He is a past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association, which named him a fellow in 2016. Lewis holds degrees in journalism from Baylor and Ohio State universities and a master's degree in history from Angelo State University. He resides in San Angelo with his wife Harriet Kocher Lewis....