Twyla Fritz

Auna's Angels Twyla Fritz

Businesses on main street, competing with shopping malls in nearby cities, fight to keep their doors open. It is the year 2006, and the small Midwestern town in South Dakota is satisfied to be a conservative and quiet town. The insufferably stubborn and independent Auna Franklin, a feisty widow who is convicted of murdering her husband, escapes from the two police officers en-route to the state penitentiary. Laura Hunny, a dear friend, helps place the getaway vehicle which she's stocked with everything to keep Auna alive until she reaches safety. Guy Mardly and his family have been contacted and he promises to keep Auna safe until she is cleared. In her desperation to reach the ranch that she hasn't seen in thirty years, she gets confused and hopelessly lostJohnny and Cilla, realize her true identity as they hide her until help arrives. Hank Sturgeon, a wealthy lawyer who has a questionable past of his own, becomes involved after he promises Guy that he will try to help prove Auna's innocence. Auna is then hunted by Bodeine, a washed up FBI agent who is desperately trying to regain the respect of not only the agency, but also that of himself. Rawhide, a crude and tactless bounty hunter follows Bodeine from one case to another and seems to step in just as Bodeine is ready to make the arrest. Chet and Mary, Auna's children, take part in an emotional and horrifying encounter with a suspect as they try to draw out the real killer. Auna has lost her first love and husband, Joe to a murderer, and gained Hank Sturgeon, who has seen the best of her and the worst of her, and loves her to the very depth of her soul---and his.