A flash of brilliant light and sound exploded just ahead of Aaron Calhoun in the velvet black night, and a white hote flame tore into his right side at the same instant. Sam Calhoun jerked on both triggers of his twin-barreled .10 guage, aiming at the point of light and sound. This was his moment to act...to protect his partner, the son of his former owner...to fully become the free man he now was at the close of the Civil War
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