Wildcat, Book Two: Dark Fury

About the Book

After finally being declared innocent of Richard Adams’s murder, Mary Benedict Austin is happy. But her happiness is short lived. What she doesn’t know is that her world is about to be turned upside down once again. Mary Benedict Austin is kidnapped by her husband Mando´s mortal enemy, a Shoshone Indian named Kajika. Mary is pregnant, but her kidnapper doesn’t know it. After she has been with him for five months, he realizes that she is pregnant. That is where the lies to save herself, her unborn baby, and her family in Albany begin. She convinces Kajika that the baby she is carrying is his and she tells him that she loves him and will never leave him. Kajika believes her because he is in love with her. Kajika is injured by a protruding stick on a log. His injury allows Mary to escape her bonds of slavery and return to her husband and family. Almost a year after her escape, Kajika comes back into her life. He arrives in Albany bent on revenge against Mary, who he believes not only stole his heart but also his child. His way of getting revenge is to kill Mando, Mary’s other children, burn down the town, and leave Mary gravely wounded as she watches him ride away with his child.

About the Author

About The Author Maybelle C. Hampton was born in Oklahoma, raised in Phoenix, Arizona, but now calls Los Angeles, California, home where she has lived for over forty years. This is the second of three books written under the pseudonym M. C. Hampton. She won second place in a writing contest for a local newspaper, and her poems have been published in a small journal of poems. After completing two years of journalism courses at a community college, her time was spent raising her five daughters, who are now grown, and six of her grandchildren. After her retirement in 2004, she now has time for her favorite hobbies—traveling, fishing, and writing.