Thomas William Simpson

Trail to Telluride Thomas William Simpson

Natalie works the midnight to noon shift as an emergency room nurse at Wellspan Hospital in Gettysburg, PA. She has a husband, a son, a daughter, a dog, and a cat. She leads a busy middle class life working, taking care of her family, serving on the school board, volunteering at the food pantry, trying to find time to exercise. Natalie is about as grounded in reality as any 40-year-old American woman could possibly be. Lately, however, crazy, vivid dreams have invaded her sleep. Most of these dreams involve a love affair and a gentleman getting shot. In the chest. In a bank. Sometimes she's there to save the wounded man; sometimes not. Sometimes the bank is the Gettysburg National where she and Zachary have their joint checking account. Other times it's an old fashion bank and the people wear western garb like you might see in an old John Wayne movie. The dreams have been unsettling, but more recently Natalie has started to hear voices as well. Typically, she hears two distinct voices. They tend to argue. One voice keeps telling Natalie she needs to go; the other tells her to stay. "Go where?" Natalie asks. "New Mexico.""Why New Mexico?""The reasons why will emerge once you have shown the courage to go."That evening Natalie and Zachary have an epic domestic quarrel. Natalie is so irritated she takes Zachary's old Corvette out for a spin. Natalie never takes the Vette out for a spin. Sure enough, she cracks it up. Smashes the fender and headlight and scratches the entire passenger side of the 40-year-old showroom clean sports car. Crazed now with the dreams, voices, and ruined Vette, Natalie flees for New Mexico to fulfill her destiny. Trail to Telluride is a love story. It is a romance. It is a western. It is a time machine gone haywire. It is the story of what one woman will do to insure the safety and continuity of her family. Come along for the ride. Let your imagination go. Meet Ray who runs the motel and bar out in the middle of Nowhere, New Mexico. Ray will change Natalie's life. Meet Geronimo and the Earp brothers, Wyatt and Virgil, and, of course, Butch Cassidy, who will have a fling with a youthful Natalie along the trail to Telluride. Trail to Telluride is exactly what fiction should be-imaginative, mind-expanding, challenging, insightful, surprising, and just plain entertaining. Natalie is a heroine for our times-smart, educated, grounded, hard-working, entirely devoted to her family, but also open-minded, ready and willing to take on new challenges and fresh adventures.