(Chapter 1) Milkmaid

Shelia Johnson can't wait to marry her fiancé, Little Joe Cartwright. They have many plans for their future together, that is until she gets captured and held hostage by a family of outlaws named the Lassiters. She realizes very quickly that she only has two days left to live, two days without her hazel eyed cowboy and the family who she loves more than anything in the world. Yet she won't go down without a fight and even though she is tied hand and foot, she's determined to decide whether or not she is going to live or to die...

This short story is a WHI (what happened instead) for the season seven episode Five Sundowns to Sunup.