BITTER END TRAIL

About the Book

I’m called the Cimarron Kid. Don’t let that scare you; I picked up the “kid” handle while I was growing up in the Yuma, Arizona, territory. I’m the second-born son of the notorious outlaw and gunman, the Nevada Kid. My father ran with the Younger Brothers Gang, but after his seven years in Yuma prison, he got a little smarter and went straight, then got married to my mother, Ricki, a barrel racer. I’m one of five boys raised on a big spread called the Flying T2 Roughstock and Cattle Company. My older brother, TJ, went to college and became a lawyer, and me, well, Pa laughingly considers me to be part of the roughstock on the ranch. I was born and bred cowboy tough. My gun is a lot faster than TJ’s and probably even faster than Pa’s ever was, but TJ is no wimp. He shoots accurately and can handle a gun almost as good as me, but then again, I had more time to practice speed. There is only one difference between me and my four brothers, which is that I’m a chip off the old block and can find myself in more trouble than a woodpecker in a petrified forest. If you want to hear my story, you got to read the book. Sincerely, Cimarron Lacey Flying T2 Brand

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Diane M. Cece is the best-selling author of the Southwest Series of novels. Her works include the Trails Southwest, The Cattle Drive from Southwest, The Rodeo Southwest, Whispering Ridge and Bitter End Trail. She worked for twenty-five years as a management assistant for supervisory military personnel. She was an unpublished Nashville songwriter, a designer and seamstress for custom eighteenth-century-period clothing, a living history and Civil War reenactor, a historian for the mountain-climbing Morris Canal in New Jersey, and a historic interpreter for historic Waterloo Village. She lives in a small New Jersey farming community and enjoys visiting the local stockyards on auction days and follows the local and Midwestern pro-rodeo action of the roughstock riders and the roping events. She can be reached on her website www.dianesoldwestnovels.com by going into the guest book tab.