FOR FADED LOVE: THE MCGOWAN SAGA #2 Kindle Edition

For Faded Love, the second book following the first in the McGowan saga series, Fred Gallagher lost his wife after Union soldiers assaulted her during the occupation of Galveston City, Galveston Island, in the Civil War. Ironically, he was a Union cavalry officer, and under distress was wounded,after he received his wife’s last letter.. Jumping sixteen years later, now as an innkeeper, he receives word from an old army buddy that three survivors of the eight responsible for his wife’s death, are posing as cattle buyers in Dodge City, Kanas. By convincing the local cattle association to sign the recovered stolen cattle noted from the previous novel “THEY RODE FROM ROUND ROCK” over to him and enlisting his newly married son-in-law, Emmitt McGowan, to Trail Boss the herd to Dodge City, he attempts to reach Dodge City during the winter of 1878/79 as a cover to confront the rapist/murderers of his wife. The journey includes mayhem, dangers from a winter cattle drive, lost romance found, a test of faith, brotherhood among the drovers regardless of race or culture, and a final showdown in Dodge City. A historical fiction novel, including actual persons of that era interacting fictionally with the main fictional characters.For Faded Love is a hard-hitting, emotional tale of the hardships, loves and faith in the Almighty in that era of history. Read more