
A western holiday
A holiday tale from the New York Times bestselling
author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration
for A&E’s hit show Longmire “It’s a question of what you have to do, what you have to
live with if you don’t.” Sheriff Walt Longmire is reading A Christmas Carol in
his office on December 24th when he’s interrupted by the
ghost of Christmas past: a young woman with a hairline scar
across her forehead and more than a few questions about
Walt’s predecessor, Lucian Connally. Walt doesn’t recognize
the mystery woman, but she seems to know him and claims to
have something she must return to Connally. With his
daughter, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in
Philadelphia for the holidays, Walt is at loose ends, and
despite the woman’s reticence to reveal her identity, he
agrees to help her. At the Durant Home for Assisted Living Lucian Connally is
several tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkle’s and swears he’s
never clapped eyes on the woman before. Disappointed, she
whispers “Steamboat” and begins a story that takes them all
back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died in a
terrible crash and a young girl had the slimmest chance of
survival . . . back to a record breaking blizzard, to
Walt’s first year as sheriff, with a young daughter at home
and a wife praying for his safety . . . back to a
whiskey-soaked World War II vet ready to fly a
decommissioned plane and risk it all to save a life. Back to the Spirit of Steamboat.
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