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In The Service Of The Queen (The Gunsmith Book 1) Kindle Edition

by C.K. Crigger (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 175 ratings

Book 1 of 5: The Gunsmith

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Lost in time--and the only way home for this gunsmith is on a river of blood.

Boothenay Irons, to her own bewilderment, is the possessor of a mysterious power. By profession a gunsmith, there is something within her that answers to the history held within an antique gun. Not only can she hear its story, she is sometimes able to go back in time and interact with its history.

Blood, as she comes to realize, is the road that carries her between times. Her strange ability began as a teenager while restoring an old gun. She slipped into a trance and witnessed an event in the weapon's history. Later she was drawn closer and found herself back in time where the guns story was unfolding, and she was no longer herself...but instead she became the person holding the gun....

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"C. K. Crigger has written a most memorable character in the person of Boothenay Irons. Boothenay, an unusual woman with an unusual name, is a lady gunsmith who specializes in restoring antique firearms and has a special power that transports her into the history of the gun she is working on...Crigger's storyline is fetching and her attention to the details of 1811 English culture is historically compelling."—Duane Howard, Amazon Reader

"...Crigger's imagination has no bounds as I went with Boothany back to Georgian England and barely couldn't stop reading until she was safely back in her gunshop. Crigger's style is almost tongue-in-cheek. The action moves quickly and I had to keep alert to keep up with the between-the-lines action of the two main characters. A good read."—Pat Pfeiffer, Amazon Reader

"...An exciting time travel thriller that hooks the audience once Caleb meets Boothenay. Boothenay, the glue of the novel, is a terrific person whose inner modern day feminism is brought to her host bodies. The bewildered Caleb is her ideal counterpart. However, what makes the tale once the heroine arrives in 1811, are the little irritating inconveniences of no microwave, horrendous bathroom facilities, and an olfactory nightmare that will leave readers desiring more stories starring this intrepid Gunsmith."—Harriet Klausner, The Best Reviews

"...An outstanding novel that I could not put down. It kept me enthralled from the first page to the last...I would recommend this author to anyone, and I can hardly wait to read Shadow Soldier."—Mariah, The Romance Studio

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MCYFS4L
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wolfpack Publishing (October 25, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 25, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2322 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 301 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #536,397 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #137 in Western Science Fiction
- #1,190 in Alternative History
- #1,478 in Time Travel Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

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Two-time Spur Award winner C.K. Crigger lives with a wild Pomsky (Arctic Spitz) pup, and a reclusive Persian cat. Born and raised in North Idaho on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, she is a long-time member of Western Writers of America, and often reviews western genre books for WWA’s Roundup magazine.

Ms. Crigger is a two time Spur Award winner, in 2019 for The Woman Who Built a Bridge, and in 2020 for The Yeggman's Apprentice. She is a three time Spur Award finalist, as well. Yester's Ride is a 2019 Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist. The Woman Who Inherited Trouble is the latest in that series. The Speaker of Clovis Creek is her latest release, and Book #6 of The Woman Who series is under contract and titled The Woman Who Went for Broke.

Heart's Great Temptation, a short story in the Rebel Hearts Anthology, won the bronze in the 2023 Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Check her website--www.ckcrigger.com-- to learn how to read the story for free.

Look for her books under C.K.Crigger and Carol Wright Crigger

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Love, Danger and Magic

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2016

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I liked this magical, historical romance very much. Wonderful characters and believable circumstances. As ever with a really good author, you are left wanting to know what will happen next. Please, C. K. Crigger, give us more of the gun repair shop and its lovely expert.

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Evelyn Schultz

Great read. When's the next one coming out!

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2014

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C K Crigger is related to my husband. So I decided to get her set of books. Love the characters, settings, history and story lines. They keep my interested cover to cover. Hard to put down. Great books for young girls of any age. The lead characters are strong, self sufficient, independent young ladies that know what they want and what is necessary to achieve their goals. Great role models. Just enough romance and adventure to keep you interested .

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017

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Beautifully written. Fast paced, one of a kind read.

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Time travel - by a witch

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2017

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Not quite fantasy or sf, more alternate reality. Good characters in both timelines, lots of adventure, some romance. The thing is,I couldn't put it down.

Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2017

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020

Great story if the bedroom scenes are cleaned up.

Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2017

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Well-paced story of a young lady gunsmith with developing preternatural abilities. Time-travel in a different way, with romance and humor.

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023

A great adventure of traveling back in time ,with love and murder,a great book ,loved the mystery of old times

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What age group?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2017

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I liked the idea behind this story but I am unsure what age group it is aimed at. Mostly it reads like a kid's book, but then something a bit too adult is added to the mix. The history is well researched and it was a surprise to end up a few miles from home here in Devon UK when reading a book by an American author which started in Washington. The one thing that really did annoy me was the badly formatted kindle edition. Line spacing was all to pot and trying to follow speech when it departs from its speech marks and related sentences was a bit of an effort at times. I won't read any more in this series.

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