Sister Spinster

Wes Payton

Aug 2026 · Rogue Phoenix Press

About this ebook

As a young woman, Reb lost her fiancé in the Civil War. After years of living a lonely life as a schoolteacher in Chicago, she accepts an invitation to stay with her well-to-do sister and brother-in-law in the boomtown of Tombstone. Life in Tombstone is not what she expects as she is continually surprised by the luxuries to be had in the desert town where she meets historical figures as well as a man with a mysterious past.

Their adventures continue in Leadville where they befriend an Irish poet touring the Wild West. After the harrowing events of the previous year, they hope that 1882 will bring peace and prosperity…and perhaps a wedding. However, an old enemy returns and plots to ruin it all. Will the help of their unlikely new friend be enough to save them?

About the author

Wes Payton has a B.A. in Rhetoric/Philosophy/English and an M.A. in English. He has been a short-story presenter for the Illinois Philological Association. His play Way Station was selected for a Next Draft reading in 2015, and What Does a Question Weigh? was selected for a staged reading as part of the 2017 Chicago New Work Festival. Wes is the author of the books Lead Tears, Standing in Doorways, Raison Deidre, Oblong, Intimate Recreation, Downstate Illinois, The House Painter and the Pirate Hunter, Immurdered: Some Time to Kill, Dissimilies: More's the Pity, Namastab: Transition into Decompose, Jackassignation: Too Clever by Half, The Immeasurable Man, and The Truth of Two Lies. Wes lives with his wife, daughter, and son in Oak Park, Illinois.