Whippoorwill

Orphaned at age twelve, all Leticia Murphy wants is love, a family, and a happy ever after. But the Kansas territories are a difficult place, and Letty has to do what it takes to survive. Now, she's the last saloon girl in the rough-and-tumble town of Lizard Flats, a place where happy-ever-afters are nothing but a dream. Until-that is-a preacher from the East comes to town. The man of God isn't quite as holy as he seems. And when he turns up dead in Letty's bed, off sets a chain of unfortunate and hilarious events that will take Letty out of Lizard Flats in the company of Eulis Potter, the town drunk, on a trail that no one could have seen coming…