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Welcome to the website of writer and novelist, M.L. Bushman. To give something back to readers everywhere, Ms. Bushman's giving away her sixteenth novel in weekly installments at her blog, Montana Crosswinds. You'll find the latest chapter below. Follow the link for the rest of the story. And enjoy! 

 

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Montana Crosswinds

Tornado Talon--Chapter Fifteen

Around noon, a fight amongst the kids broke out over Travis, just about the same time a black Mercedes tooled down the drive to the house. Through a crack in the curtains over the kitchen window, Tyler watched two of his brothers--Charlie and Steve--march the bickering brood of children out to Grandma's garden. There they were all going to learn not to fight the hot and hard way, just as Tyler and all six of his brothers, plus his sister, had learned. Pulling weeds in the noon sun was as good a deterrent to brawling as any ass-whipping. Left a longer impression, that's for sure.

The fiftyish man who got out of the Mercedes was tall, balding, and dressed casually in a tan Western shirt and jeans, spit-shined black cowboy boots on his feet. He had a pleasant, roundish face and appeared to be on the softer side physically, his salt-and-pepper hair cut short. He toted no briefcase, although Tyler figured the car itself was a dead giveaway to the media herd at the gate.

Grandma elbowed Tyler out of her way to open the kitchen door. "Sam Burcheson, I presume," she said.

"Mrs. Harvey. My mother sends her regards to both you and your husband." He glanced back over his shoulder. "Quite a crowd at your gate there, waiting for news."

"Get in here," she said, and once Sam was inside, Grandma made a cursory glance about the immediate area, got a thumbs up from Charlie at the garden where all the kids, even Travis, were on their hands and knees yanking weeds under Steve's watchful eye, then shut the door.

Lydia extended her hand to the new arrival. "Mr. Burcheson, I'm Lydia Talon."

He smiled for the first time, showing straight teeth, a gold star embedded in one. "Ah, the newest member of the clan."

Tyler wanted to point out that Travis was the newest member, but decided to keep quiet for now.

Sam Burcheson looked him dead in the eye. "The great Tornado Talon, as I live and breathe. Missing and not dead."

Tyler shook his hand, the attorney's grip firm, solid and honest.

"This is all confidential, ain't it?" Grandpa Joe asked from the dining room entry.
 

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A pregnant woman, abandoned.

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An immortal Evil in the first phase of a new war to overthrow all Creation.

 

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Single Parent's Guide to the System by M.L. Bushman  (Jigsaw Press)

 

Practical advice from a working single parent, written at the suggestion of her caseworker to help others navigate the maze of federal, state, and local resources known as the System.

                    

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A favor for an unidentified friend of his captain sends Blaine Horney, a Texas Ranger with a psychic gift, north to Morrison, Montana, the scene of a vicious double homicide with no apparent motive. 

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