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A Single Match: Montana's Madison Range — a Two-Timeframe Thriller
Inspired by King’s The Shining, A SINGLE MATCH transports you to a remote mountain vista. Lisa doubts the future with her iffy-handsome boyfriend, but an autumn trip could be the perfect reset.
Casey found a twice-abandoned gold camp, and as the new claim holder, he cleared an entire month for exploration — finally some quality time with Lisa and ranch-dog Alice? A gorgeous log mansion anchors the claim. Unfortunately, its past hasn’t entirely passed. Alice notices it first, her moods jubilant upstairs, sullen around Casey, protective of Lisa. Two teenage girls wintered here in 1863. It did not go well.
A Single Match evolves in two timeframes, initially lighthearted but slowly turning dark. It nurtures an unusual alliance stretching across time, and shows how past heroics can stir modern courage.
Never count out Alice.
Dust Cover Intro
One thing feels quite obvious in my life. This rancher boyfriend deserves the boot.
I drunkenly proposed to a local musician before confronting reality and giving my Montana rancher one more chance. On second thought, that first thought seems hasty. Casey just filed a mining claim, impatiently criticizing some poor land-officer while I feign interest in a dead trout mounted like it still stands a chance. The fish illusion and Casey probably share similar odds.
“Nobody finds any gold up there.” The young woman’s hurt eyes follow him out the door. “And this claim, the last owner walked out mid-winter, almost froze . . . ” Casey’s pickup horn cuts her short. “Listen, are you OK?”
“I hate the mountains, but that’s where we’re going,” my answer surprises us both. “Don’t worry, I can handle Casey. This trip will decide if I want to do that forever.”
Her nostrils flare a little. “I think I’d just kill him.”
Casey found a twice-abandoned gold camp, and as the new claim holder, he cleared an entire month for exploration — finally some quality time with Lisa and ranch-dog Alice? A gorgeous log mansion anchors the claim. Unfortunately, its past hasn’t entirely passed. Alice notices it first, her moods jubilant upstairs, sullen around Casey, protective of Lisa. Two teenage girls wintered here in 1863. It did not go well.
A Single Match evolves in two timeframes, initially lighthearted but slowly turning dark. It nurtures an unusual alliance stretching across time, and shows how past heroics can stir modern courage.
Never count out Alice.
Dust Cover Intro
One thing feels quite obvious in my life. This rancher boyfriend deserves the boot.
I drunkenly proposed to a local musician before confronting reality and giving my Montana rancher one more chance. On second thought, that first thought seems hasty. Casey just filed a mining claim, impatiently criticizing some poor land-officer while I feign interest in a dead trout mounted like it still stands a chance. The fish illusion and Casey probably share similar odds.
“Nobody finds any gold up there.” The young woman’s hurt eyes follow him out the door. “And this claim, the last owner walked out mid-winter, almost froze . . . ” Casey’s pickup horn cuts her short. “Listen, are you OK?”
“I hate the mountains, but that’s where we’re going,” my answer surprises us both. “Don’t worry, I can handle Casey. This trip will decide if I want to do that forever.”
Her nostrils flare a little. “I think I’d just kill him.”
278 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 27, 2024
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Brian Striefel
8 books5 followersBrian lives 80 miles from a stoplight where passing motorists still wave. He enjoys a modern protagonist facing a puzzling backstory, real events however obscure ― novels accurate to place and time so reality blends seamlessly with fiction.
His stories encompass several genres, thrillers in a word but each offering mystery, romance, coming-of-age drama, often crime and/or magical realism. These novels explore the border between genre and literary fiction. Channel Isabel Allende's "Daughter of Fortune" and Tessaro's "The Perfume Collector"
Expect downhill thrill rides with killer endings.
His stories encompass several genres, thrillers in a word but each offering mystery, romance, coming-of-age drama, often crime and/or magical realism. These novels explore the border between genre and literary fiction. Channel Isabel Allende's "Daughter of Fortune" and Tessaro's "The Perfume Collector"
Expect downhill thrill rides with killer endings.
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September 29, 2024
A perfect suspence novel to read by a nice warm fire!
Brian Striefel masterfully intermingles the present with the past to expose a long-lost history of a cabin in the woods. I must-read book that is thrilling from start to finish.
Brian Striefel masterfully intermingles the present with the past to expose a long-lost history of a cabin in the woods. I must-read book that is thrilling from start to finish.
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