Orrin Russell

Balum's Harem Orrin Russell

Number 8 in the Balum Series Westerns. A lovestruck man will throw himself at trouble quicker than a hog to the slop trough. Balum knows this as well as anyone- he's been there before. But Joe hasn't. He's fallen in love with a woman he can't have, a woman held captive by a man who will do anything to keep her. Impatient with waiting for Balum, he rides ahead to rescue her. Freeing her from her captor is easy enough, it's what comes next when the trouble begins: for where do two lovers escape to when surrounded by endless miles of inhospitable desert?Such is the question facing Balum when he reaches Tin City, and he needs an answer fast, for Big Tom and his gang of killers have taken after them. To find the answer he needs to avoid backshooters, sort truth from lies, and finally surrender himself to three women ill-equipped to face the desert, but absolutely perfect for a harem.