Wild-Willed Women of the West
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How to Survive Cacti
A Good Time Girls Short
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Ruby Calhoun, star of the The Good Time Girls, has provided this useful guide to the perils of cacti in the Arizona desert. Read to learn the identities of various nefarious spiky plants and how to survive their demonic desire to harm you. Clothing choices are provided, with all the modern 1905 wear available for safety.
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The Good Time Girls
2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award Finalist
Ruby Calhoun has worked hard to outrun her past. Unfortunately, her past runs faster.
In 1905 Kansas, Ruby Calhoun has worked very hard to become a respectable woman. Or at least a woman who isn’t actively being chased.
The dancehall days are behind her. The gunfire, the narrow escapes, the upstairs girls at the Paradise Saloon who once formed her first fragile family — all of that belongs to another lifetime.
Until Pip Quinn bursts back into town with terrible news and an even worse plan.
An old enemy has resurfaced, and he is not inclined toward forgiveness. The safest course of action would be to leave quietly. Naturally, Ruby and Pip choose the opposite.
What follows is a wildly ill-advised journey across the Kansas plains filled with botched disguises, questionable alliances, con artists, missed trains, accidental heroics, and a growing realization that running from the past is far easier than facing it.
But beneath the blunders lies something stronger: loyalty. The women of the Paradise once kept each other alive in a world with little interest in their survival. And when danger circles again, Ruby must decide whether she will keep running — or finally claim the fierce, complicated strength that has always bound the Good Time Girls together.
The Good Time Girls is a lively, sharp, and heartfelt historical novel about friendship, second chances, and the remarkable resilience of women who make terrible decisions — and somehow survive them.
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The Good Time Girls Get Famous
Book 2 in the The Good Time Girls series
Be careful what legends you let grow. They may demand a sequel.
Ruby Calhoun and Pip Quinn have survived dancehalls, danger, and a series of truly questionable life choices. Now, as silent films sweep the nation, a Hollywood producer decides their outlaw legend is exactly what audiences crave.
The offer? Play themselves in a motion picture based on their exploits.
It promises money, notoriety, and perhaps enough distraction to keep the law from looking too closely. It may even provide a tidy escape south of the border once filming wraps.
What it does not promise is sanity.
Between temperamental actors, melodramatic directors, wildly inaccurate scripts, gossip-hungry newspapers, and their own inability to follow even the simplest plan, Ruby and Pip quickly discover that becoming famous may be more dangerous than being outlaws.
When an old enemy resurfaces and Ruby’s sister is pulled into the chaos, the line between performance and reality vanishes. To keep her sister out of danger — and her past from writing the ending — Ruby must decide whether she will let the world define her legend… or rewrite it herself.
The Good Time Girls Get Famous is a warm, witty, and uproarious historical novel about friendship, reinvention, and the spectacular art of surviving your own bad ideas.
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