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* EasilyForgiven: Machado gives up his vendetta at the end and leaves on fairly good terms with the main characters despite having helped Wooston, been prepared to kill them and rejected numerous earlier attempts at peace.
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* SavingTheOrphanage: The primary plot is driven by Eileen's desire to save the family ranch from her creditor Wooston.Wooston.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Another henchman who accompanies King-Pin Russell gets scared and wisely flees as the spooky signs accumulate, right before Russell is sucked to another dimension.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of the [[DirtyCop corrupt sheriff]] is never mentioned, as he doesn't seem to be present in the FinalBattle despite having been aiding Wooston right before it.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Another henchman who accompanies King-Pin Russell gets scared and wisely flees as the spooky signs accumulate, right before Russell is sucked to another dimension.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of the [[DirtyCop corrupt sheriff]] is never mentioned, as he doesn't seem to be present in the FinalBattle despite having been aiding Wooston right before it.
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* RapidAging: When King-Pin Russell decides to see if he can find the gold for himself, he treads into the territory of the Old One's tribe, and is drawn into their dimension. Unseen voices say that he is an enemy, and if he returns he will lead other hostile people there. They allow him to live and escape, but prematurely age him five decades before he does. He goes out a vigorous, dangerous bandit and returns, days later, an infirm old man.
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* RapidAging: When King-Pin Russell decides to see if he can find the gold for himself, he treads into the territory of the Old One's tribe, and is drawn into their dimension. Unseen voices say that he is an enemy, and if he returns he will lead other hostile people there. They allow him to live and escape, but prematurely age him five decades before he does. He goes out a vigorous, dangerous bandit and returns, days later, an infirm old man.man.
* SavingTheOrphanage: The primary plot is driven by Eileen's desire to save the family ranch from her creditor Wooston.
* SavingTheOrphanage: The primary plot is driven by Eileen's desire to save the family ranch from her creditor Wooston.
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Eileen Mulkerin is the widow of a proud soldier living in the territory of California in 1844. She's desperate to keep her hold on the family ranch, but after a bad harvest, she's in a tight spot when Wooston, their cruel creditor, comes to call in a debt. But while he lived, a few times, her husband had gone on long rides and come back with gold. If she could just find the source of that, that might be enough to buy them free.
All of this is further complicated when her son, the captain of a trading vessel, returns from a trip to Mexico with Mariana, who was fleeing an arranged marriage, and is pursued by the wealthy, dangerous man she was promised to.
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!! This novel provides examples of:
* ArrangedMarriage: Mariana is promised to Machado, whom she does not love. She flees her impending marriage and swims out to Sean's ship in the middle of the night, begging for refuge.
* DamselInDistress: Mariana definitely needs the Mulkerin's help, but she also shows herself to be tough and unflinching in the face of hardship and danger.
* DueToTheDead: Sean decides, even in the danger of assassination in the wilderness, that he must return to the cave and give the Old One a proper burial.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: The Old One, also known as Juan (doubtfully his real name), is the last of a lost tribe of long-lived American Indians. He appears to be capable of some kind of travel between dimensions, although none of this is ever explained in detail.
* RapidAging: When King-Pin Russell decides to see if he can find the gold for himself, he treads into the territory of the Old One's tribe, and is drawn into their dimension. Unseen voices say that he is an enemy, and if he returns he will lead other hostile people there. They allow him to live and escape, but prematurely age him five decades before he does. He goes out a vigorous, dangerous bandit and returns, days later, an infirm old man.
All of this is further complicated when her son, the captain of a trading vessel, returns from a trip to Mexico with Mariana, who was fleeing an arranged marriage, and is pursued by the wealthy, dangerous man she was promised to.
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!! This novel provides examples of:
* ArrangedMarriage: Mariana is promised to Machado, whom she does not love. She flees her impending marriage and swims out to Sean's ship in the middle of the night, begging for refuge.
* DamselInDistress: Mariana definitely needs the Mulkerin's help, but she also shows herself to be tough and unflinching in the face of hardship and danger.
* DueToTheDead: Sean decides, even in the danger of assassination in the wilderness, that he must return to the cave and give the Old One a proper burial.
* MagicalNativeAmerican: The Old One, also known as Juan (doubtfully his real name), is the last of a lost tribe of long-lived American Indians. He appears to be capable of some kind of travel between dimensions, although none of this is ever explained in detail.
* RapidAging: When King-Pin Russell decides to see if he can find the gold for himself, he treads into the territory of the Old One's tribe, and is drawn into their dimension. Unseen voices say that he is an enemy, and if he returns he will lead other hostile people there. They allow him to live and escape, but prematurely age him five decades before he does. He goes out a vigorous, dangerous bandit and returns, days later, an infirm old man.
