Cracker Westerns are rip-roarin, action-packed, can't-put-'em-down tales
set in the frontier days of Florida. They are full of adventure, real
heroes, and vivid, authentic details that bring Florida's history to
life.
With enough shoot-outs and stampedes for any good Western story,
Alligator Gold adds its unique Florida twist with an alligator in a
deep blue spring.
The Civil War is over and Caleb Hawkins is finally on his way home from
a Northern prisoner-of-war camp. Hawk's been trying to get his mind off
giving the rotten Snake Barber part of the secret to finding his
family's hidden cache of gold when he was delirious with malaria at the
camp. Now he's focused on getting back to the D-Wing, his Florida cattle
ranch, and Travis, his only son. But his code of honor intervenes when
he encounters a very pregnant Madelaine Wilkes along the trail. Hawk is
duty-bound to help her, which comes to include taking her home with him.
What he learns about the father of her baby tarnishes his clear
attraction to her. Maddy Wilkes has her own code of honor, which gets in
the way of her strong attraction to Hawk. And Snake Barber's singular
lack of moral code gets in the way of any normal life on the D-Wing.
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