Jenny (The Thorntons)

by Kerbit J Little

Description of the book Jenny Jenny was an orphan, a plain child who was never adopted due to her plain appearance. But Jenny was very special in other ways. She could enchant you with her singing, bring you to tears reciting poetry and immerse you within a play with her acting. But the most special thing about Jenny was her heart. She got a job with a traveling show and was doing well when a Mayor from Peaceful, Nevada saw her perform in Philadelphia while on a business trip. He became infatuated with Jenny and persuaded her with a large salary to go back with him to Nevada and perform in a saloon he owned. He built her a beautiful stage to perform on and Jenny worked every night and saved her money because she had a plan. She never expected to be married because of her plain looks but she wanted to save her money until she could go to a city where they needed one and build an orphanage for children like she was. The Mayor kept her a virtual prisoner, begging her daily to marry him but Jenny told him she could not because she did not love him. Jim Thornton, a former Confederate soldier and a known gunman and his friend, Little Rute Little, a miner, are talking and Little Rute tells Jim about Jenny, who he met some time ago and he tells Jim how special she is and that he is worried about her. Little Rute breaks a leg in a fall and Jim sends him back to a friend's farm in Frozen, Nevada to heal up. Jim rides off to Peaceful to see Jenny. On the way, he punishes a man who is abusing a waitress and has to kill the man in self defense when he is ambushed. The man's mother, Big Beck Kelly, who owns most of the town and runs a saloon with prostitutes, tries to kill Jim with a knife but he knocks her out and escapes, followed by men hired by her to kill him. From then on, Jim has to fight off those men, then others sent by Beck as he tries to get Jenny to California. On the way, Jim and Jenny fall in love and are married when they reach Frozen, where Little Rute has gotten himself engaged to three widows of a deranged ex-Mormon Jim had to kill in the previous year.Jenny is rich in characters. There is Wendell Rader, ex-Pinkerton, turned private investigator who specializes in finding wayward children and spouses and bringing them back after giving them his own special kind of wake-up call. Wendell is very intelligent, a master pianist and a survivor of abusive parents who left him a little confused about pain and who he had to kill to save himself. Wendell is tall and plain and tormented but he is also dangerous. You don't mess with Wendell Rader. You will meet Wendell on the first pages of Jenny.There is Dancer, a freed slave who walked and danced all the way from Alabama to Nevada, trying to find somewhere he feels at home. Dancer subsists on vegetation he finds and bugs he catches along the way. He dances because he hears music in his mind at all times and can't help it. He has to dance to the music.There is the beautiful Rose Vermilion, a young black lady who was taken from Indians by Wendell and was taught and cared for by Wendell after that. Rose loves Wendell and wants to marry him but Wendell wants her to find another man, someone who will be a complete man to her, which he cannot be.There is Cano Kelly, brother of Big Beck, a former mountain man and now a scalp hunter, who is after Jim and leaves death and destruction behind him wherever he goes.Jenny is not the typical western or horror story. It is a fast-paced action and adventure story and a love story as well. There are other characters who come and go like flickers of fireflies in the night but you may find some of them hard to forget. Good luck. I hope you find reading it half as enjoyable as it was for me writing it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520880839
• ISBN13: 9781520880839
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"