title: The Sheriff's Legacy
author: William Keller
description: Linn Keller is an expatriated Appalachian storyteller, a published poet, calligrapher and re-enactor of the European Middle Ages and the American West. He is author of several articles and short stories, mostly in professional literature. Licensed in environmental health, he is a past paramedic, past fire chief and town marshal, pediatric, ICU and ER nurse, and has yet to decide what he wants to do when he grows up.
zlib_text: > > WANTED: MAIL ORDER BRIDE FOR THE RELUCTANT SHERIFF
  
  > CALLIE GARDNER
  
  This is a work of fiction. Any names or characters, businesses or places,
  events or incidents, are fictitious. Any resemblance to actual persons, living
  or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
  
   **Copyright © 2021 by Callie Gardner**
  
  All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by
  any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and
  retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the
  use of brief quotations in a book review.
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _A Note from the Author_
  
  > CHAPTER 1
  
  G erald Caldwell was three months into his new job as sheriff of Kearney City,
  Nebraska, and he was beginning to wonder if the folks in town would ever stop
  calling him, “Son.”
  
  The latest culprit 