Stop 16 Tin Swift Blog Tour

 Hi all and welcome to stop number 16 on Devon Monk's Tin Swift Blog tour! I am so excited to be participating in this uniquely fun tour!
Summary:

HANG FIRE is a steampunk short story set in late 1800′s America. It takes place between the Age of Steam book #1, DEAD IRON and book #2 TIN SWIFT. The story is broken into 20 “chapters” and posted, one chapter at a time, on 20 awesome blogs. To read the whole story, start at chapter 1 at www.candacesbookblog.com and follow the “read the next chapter” links at the end of the post.

So what do we have in store for you guys. Well we get an awesome giveaway full of sweet goodies and chapter 16 of Devon's Short story.

So lets start with the giveaway goodies:

1. A magnet of the cover of TIN SWIFT

2. A hand-made by Devon (and her dear husband) one-of a kind, signed bookmark.

3. A copy of TIN SWIFT

One winner

Must be over 16

US only

1 entry per person. Contest runs through July 23, 2012. Winner will be notified via email so leave me a way to get in contact with you. 

Okay without further ado, chapter 16:

...read chapter 15:  Larissa'sLife: www.larissaslife.com

HANG FIRE - Chapter 16

             “Get down, Rose!” Cedar said.

            But Rose Small was not listening. She half-knelt, stretching over the top of him. At first he thought she was going to help pull him up over the edge of the pit. Instead, she pulled the rifle on his back free.

            “Rose, no,” he said. But clinging to a rope half out of a pit with someone taking shots at him didn’t exactly put him in the prime position to bargain. Especially not with a strong-willed woman like Rose Small.

            “Hold on there,” she said. “I’ll be right back, Mr. Hunt.” She stood, cocked the rifle, and ran.

            She disappeared behind a tree just as another shot rang out.

            Rose took aim and returned fire.

            Wil, his brother still in wolf-form, was off the other way from where Rose had run. He growled.

            “Mr. Hunt,” Mae Lindson, at the bottom of the pit below him, called out. “Who is shooting at us?”

            “I’ll let you know.” Cedar surged up out of the pit and hugged the ground. A bullet pinged again, singing a struck-metal bell tone as it ricocheted somewhere not all that far from his prone position.

            Rose, still behind the tree, returned fire. Woman was a crack shot. If she caught so much as a glint of movement in the trees, their attacker wouldn’t be standing.

            “You want your gun back, Mr. Hunt?” she asked, keeping the rifle steady as she scanned the trees.

            “Keep him busy.” Cedar tossed his ammunition pouch at her feet, and Rose snatched it up quick.

            “Mae,” he said, “take hold of the rope.”

            His heart pounded hard, the beast inside his bones wanting out, wanting to kill the unseen gunman, wanting to destroy the man who was putting Mae in danger.

            Two more shots cracked out. 

            Rose fired back as Cedar hauled on the rope as fast and hard as he could.

            Wil shifted in the cover of brush, his weight on three feet, bleeding. He growled again, the glowing copper of his eyes carrying a man’s intelligence instead of that of a wolf. He wanted their shooter dead too, but was in no shape to hunt.

            Finally, Mae was at the edge of the pit and pulled herself out and onto her hands and knees.

            Cedar knew they had no advantage over the gunman here. “Rose, give me the rifle.”

            She darted out from behind the tree and tossed him the rifle. She pulled her own pistol from her belt. “We run for it, Mr. Hunt?”

            “Indeed you do, Miss Small. You too, Mrs. Lindson.”

            “Cedar,” Mae began, “please don’t–”

            “I’ll be right behind you,” he lied. “Go!”

...read chapter 17 at: Dark Faerie Tales www.darkfaerietales.com

Thanks to all that stopped by! Enjoy the rest of the tour!

Read the chapters from beginning:

TOUR DATE	BLOG
1.  June 19	CANDACE’S BOOK BLOG  http://www.candacesbookblog.com
2.  June 20	FICTION VIXEN http://www.fictionvixen.com/
3.  June 21	AUTHOR SOUND RELATIONS http://www.authorsoundrelations.blogspot.com
4. June 22	THE QUILLERY The Qwillery
5. June 25	A BOOK OBSESSION http://www.abookobsession.com/
6. June 26	FANTASY LIT http://www.fantasyliterature.com/
7. June 27	I SMELL SHEEP http://ismellsheep.blogspot.com/
8. June 28	ALL THINGS URBAN FANTASY All Things Urban Fantasy
9. June 29	RABID READS http://www.rabidreads.com
10. July 2	Rachel Vincent http://rkvincent.wordpress.com/
11. July 3	DEADLINE  DAMES http://www.deadlinedames.com/
12. July 4	MY BOOKISH WAYS http://www.mybookishways.com/
13. July 5	MAGICAL URBAN FANTASY http://www.magicalurbanfantasyreads.com/
14. July 6	LITERAL ADDICITONhttp://www.literaladdiction.com/
15. July 8	LARISSA’S LIFE  http://www.larissaslife.com/
16. July 9	My Life in Not So Many Words http://www.ziarias.blogspot.com/
17. July 10	DARK FAERIE TALES http://www.darkfaerietales.com
18. July 11	THAT’S WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT http://www.twimom227.com/
19. July 12	July 12 - Bookshelf Bombshells http:www.bookshelfcombshells.com
20. July 13	BIBLIOPHILIC BOOK BLOG http://www.bibliophilicbookblog.com/