Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    A Shiny Tin Star
    Unavailable
    A Shiny Tin Star
    Unavailable
    A Shiny Tin Star
    Ebook306 pages5 hours

    A Shiny Tin Star

    By Jon Wilson

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    On a scorching summer’s day in 1903 the sheriff of Creek County, Eugene Grey, unexpectedly finds himself partnered with feisty young Federal Marshal Forest O'Rourke. The marshal is hell-bent on capturing a wanted man—a man Eugene knows as nothing but an amiable old geezer living quietly in the hills.

    But, of course, all is not as it seems. As the manhunt progresses, Eugene slowly works out the true nature of the marshal’s relationship to the old man. And something Eugene has long kept hidden begins to stir inside him. He finds it impossible to deny the desire he feels toward the determined young marshal.

    Death and fiery destruction follow, but also passion and stolen moments of joy. Eugene’s journey takes him from his small town of Canyon Creek, Colorado, to the stately homes of Atlanta and Philadelphia. But it also pits him against the very laws he has sworn to uphold. He finds himself risking prison or even death—all in the name of love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLethe Press, Inc.
    Release dateJun 17, 2014
    ISBN9781310257407
    Unavailable
    A Shiny Tin Star
    Author

    Jon Wilson

    Jon Wilson is currently a communications consultant for the Florida Humanities Council in St. Petersburg. He has served as a journalist for the St. Petersburg Times, Clearwater Sun and St. Petersburg Evening Independent from 1973 to 2007. He is the co-author or author of several local-interest books.

    Read more from Jon Wilson

    Related to A Shiny Tin Star

    Related ebooks

    Gay Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      I Met Myself Coming Back

      Oct 6, 2022

      I Met Myself Coming Back
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Devil You Know

      Jul 10, 2021

      I met the Devil today. He was walking down main street, right by the undertaker in B____, which is a little town near here, and which, for obvious reasons, I’d better not name. I recognized him straight away because he had furry legs with hooves for

      8 min read

    • Article

      Not That Story

      Oct 28, 2017

      Not That Story
      7 min read

    • Article

      Why I’m So Grateful To Steve

      Feb 21, 2018

      Why I’m So Grateful To Steve
      2 min read

    • Article

      Tribute to Two Old-Timers

      Jul 16, 2021

      I SHIFTED uneasily in my camp chair and stole a sideways glance at the old man sitting beside me. This man is my uncle, Rob Acutt, and I owe him plenty. Memories came flooding back to me of how he mentored me in my youth, instilling in me a love of t

      6 min read

    • Article

      Cherry Bomb

      Aug 11, 2020

      Cherry Bomb
      3 min read

    • Article

      Good Guysfinish Last

      Oct 6, 2020

      Good Guysfinish Last
      3 min read

    • Article

      Too Much Seinfeld

      Nov 30, 2017

      Too Much Seinfeld
      8 min read

    • Article

      Ineffectual Tribute to Len

      Mar 15, 2019

      After graduate school I hung around another year and drove a cab for Iowa City Yellow Cab. The cab was a boat, a Chevrolet Caprice wagon. I could have put a mattress in the back and lived in it. I didn’t hate the job. I’d sit in the Kroger parking lo

      24 min read

    • Article

      Community Of Peers

      Feb 10, 2021

      After the war, I travelled to a village in the south of the province. It was my intention to vacation for the weekend in an unknown land. I followed a small river that was alternately green beneath the foliage of the forest and blue while it coursed

      6 min read

    • Article

      Dating? We All Make Mistexts

      Jun 9, 2022

      Dating? We All Make Mistexts
      2 min read

    • Article

      Hollywood, Ending

      Feb 13, 2018

      Hollywood, Ending
      7 min read

    • Article

      Body Issues

      Jul 23, 2019

      Body Issues
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Duplex

      Jun 9, 2020

      I moved to Los Angeles to sing. When was this? August? June? I was twenty-nine, and those were shapeless months, when the days blended together and I refused to pull them apart. My landlord was unusually close to her adult son. His name was Jeffrey,

      21 min read

    • Article

      Watch Your Step

      Nov 19, 2020

      Watch Your Step
      5 min read

    • Article

      Last Saturday Night

      Dec 7, 2023

      Last Saturday Night
      6 min read

    • Article

      AGE And Grace

      Nov 6, 2020

      AGE And Grace
      5 min read

    • Article

      Puppy Love

      Mar 19, 2021

      Puppy Love
      5 min read

    • Article

      Starbucks and Shipwrecks

      Jan 18, 2019

      Starbucks and Shipwrecks
      5 min read

    • Article

      It Happened To Me…

      Sep 10, 2020

      It Happened To Me…
      4 min read

    • Article

      Still, in Focus

      Jul 9, 2019

      Still, in Focus
      7 min read

    • Article

      Larger Than Life

      Nov 16, 2020

      Larger Than Life
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Man I Should Have Married

      Dec 29, 2019

      The Man I Should Have Married
      11 min read

    • Article

      Righteous

      Jan 22, 2019

      Righteous
      8 min read

    • Article

      Soul On Sale

      Aug 10, 2022

      I was waiting for the call at the telephone booth. I’d been waiting for fourteen or seventeen minutes and finally, I decided to leave. It was pointless. I only had a 20-dollar bill on me and no coins for the slot. Hard rain was coming, some type of s

      9 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Mar 24, 2022

      It Happened to Me…
      7 min read

    • Article

      ‘Lady in the Lake’: Featured Fiction from Laura Lippman

      Jul 23, 2019

      An excerpt from Lippman's latest, a sophisticated crime novel that captures the 1960s zeitgeist while painting a striking portrait of female ambition. The post ‘Lady in the Lake’: Featured Fiction from Laura Lippman appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      A Hard Man To Forget

      Jan 8, 2024

      A Hard Man To Forget
      4 min read

    • Article

      Justin Timberlake and the Whoever of Whatever: Fame Drags You Down.: Fame drags you down.

      Sep 19, 2013

      About six years ago, I was putting a new roof on a 200-year-old house on an island in Maine when I got a call from Justin Timberlake’s cousin and assistant, a girl named Melissa. I put down my nail gun, told my boss I was taking five, and answered.

      22 min read

    Reviews for A Shiny Tin Star

    4/5

    4 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      I found this book fairly shallow. The couple loves each other, supposedly (depending on your definition) but don't like or respect each other much- it reminded me of the women who fall in love with incarcerated murderers, actually, with the narrator telling us what a clueless idiot with a bad attitude this guy is (and he is), but falling for him because he has soft skin. The thing that gets me, though, is the portrayal of women. Like in the last book I read by this author, there is only one woman who qualifies as a character. The rest are all negative stereotypes. REALLY negative. The two fight but they don't resolve anything. It is just kind of an annoying cliche of a bad relationship, set in an old West in which the sheriff readily admits to hanging offenses such as homosexuality to other lawmakers after letting them abuse his constituents.
    • 5/5
      This book is charming and moving in unexpected ways. Some rare enchantment within its pages prevents me from saying anything against it other than this: There is no sequel.