For Romance Readers who have read the first four books in my Irish Western Series, this is Michael Flynn’s story. It’s a new short story to tide readers over until I can finish writing Masterson’s story, which will be book 6. Megan O’Mara has been waiting four years and 319 days for Michael Flynn to fulfill his promise to marry her. She’s done waiting. With just a few months left before her 21st birthday, she counts up all of the pin money she’s saved to give her and Michael a start in their married life and uses it to buy passage on a ship to America and then a ticket on the stagecoach that will take her halfway across the country to Emerson, Colorado where she plans to confront the man who’s broken her heart.

Michael Flynn worked his way West from New York City where he got off the boat from Ireland five years before. He’s promised Meg, his sweetheart back home, that he’d be back in five years to marry her. But by buying his way into a card game to double his money and return to Ireland a well-propertied man that Meg could be proud of goes awry when he wins—and then is shot and robbed by the very same man he cleaned out at the poker table. Will Meg be able to reach Michael in time to save him?