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American Princess
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Expected 26 Jun 26It's 1887 in the American Southwest.
Tommy Cassidy doesn’t have the best reputation, and that’s okay. As the eldest son of legendary outlaw Bill Cassidy, he and his siblings, Billie and Ike, didn’t fall far from the works that made their father’s life memorable. Living outside of the law started as a necessity before it became the norm. Yet, the life he’d become accustomed to didn’t stop him from dreaming there might be something better out there for his family.
Wild as it seemed, he began thinking that maybe it could be a reality the night he met the daughter of a wealthy gunmaker, Marcella Bailey. It was by chance that he found cover in her basement, and she, rather than calling for his removal, helped him. He could’ve died that night, and for the vision of beauty and kindness she was, he’d thought he had until he left and came back, and she was the same girl he’d met first time. As they fall in love, he has to face the reality that he’d never be accepted in her way of life, especially as Marcella’s father gives her away to a long-term business partner for marriage.
To his surprise, she asks him for help, and he offers her an escape. Her father, Maxwell Bailey, isn’t so prepared to give away his most valuable asset to an outlaw, let alone someone who looks like Tommy. As he evades the manhunt brought on by his heist of Marcella’s heart, he also must navigate the trouble his siblings have gotten into after Ike killed a man they often worked with while introducing his family to the fiancée he’d kept hidden from them.
Trying to be a better man, Tommy defies the words of warning his father had instilled in him and his siblings and chooses mercy against his better judgment, leaving them all to pay the consequence. Dirty hands, bloody-stained clothing, and endless travel without was not the life their father had wanted for them, but in a society that rejects them for who they were born as, there’s little choice, and at times, defying the law and the morals of society is the only right thing to do. But will embracing their father’s legacy be good enough to protect Marcella and his family or will it cost them their lives?
Tommy Cassidy doesn’t have the best reputation, and that’s okay. As the eldest son of legendary outlaw Bill Cassidy, he and his siblings, Billie and Ike, didn’t fall far from the works that made their father’s life memorable. Living outside of the law started as a necessity before it became the norm. Yet, the life he’d become accustomed to didn’t stop him from dreaming there might be something better out there for his family.
Wild as it seemed, he began thinking that maybe it could be a reality the night he met the daughter of a wealthy gunmaker, Marcella Bailey. It was by chance that he found cover in her basement, and she, rather than calling for his removal, helped him. He could’ve died that night, and for the vision of beauty and kindness she was, he’d thought he had until he left and came back, and she was the same girl he’d met first time. As they fall in love, he has to face the reality that he’d never be accepted in her way of life, especially as Marcella’s father gives her away to a long-term business partner for marriage.
To his surprise, she asks him for help, and he offers her an escape. Her father, Maxwell Bailey, isn’t so prepared to give away his most valuable asset to an outlaw, let alone someone who looks like Tommy. As he evades the manhunt brought on by his heist of Marcella’s heart, he also must navigate the trouble his siblings have gotten into after Ike killed a man they often worked with while introducing his family to the fiancée he’d kept hidden from them.
Trying to be a better man, Tommy defies the words of warning his father had instilled in him and his siblings and chooses mercy against his better judgment, leaving them all to pay the consequence. Dirty hands, bloody-stained clothing, and endless travel without was not the life their father had wanted for them, but in a society that rejects them for who they were born as, there’s little choice, and at times, defying the law and the morals of society is the only right thing to do. But will embracing their father’s legacy be good enough to protect Marcella and his family or will it cost them their lives?
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