P. R. Westlund

The Brant Boys P. R. Westlund

Orphaned when they were only six, the Brant Boys had enough of life's miseries. At the age fourteen, after seven long years of vicious abuse - and more than their share of beatings - they knew it was time to leave before Mr. Kichovek really did kill one of them. The snow fell hard throughout the day and long into the night, and their thin shirts and ragged, homespun pants did not have the power to turn the cold back. They had learned long ago how to make do on mighty little. It was seventeen miles to the railroad tracks South of Sedalia, Kansas, and they trudged long into the night through the deepening snow. If they got lucky they would be able to hop the train and put as many miles between them and the Kichovek's farm as they could before he came looking for them. But luck had never been on their side in the past. This cold, bitter night in the early spring of 1872 however, was a turning point, and their lives changed forever. The strong hand of Lucas Gavin reached out of the darkness and pulled each one of them into the stock car of the westbound train, and on their way into the unexpected future that awaited them. The Brant Boys is the first book in a series of seven novels in completion, with more to come. The future holds many twists for the Identical triplet brothers as they learn about life, and find their places in the hard Western World.