Reapers Girl

Dallas Richards

Dallas Richards is twenty-six and built from equal parts gasoline, whiskey, and bad decisions. She’s most at home in dive bars, biker joints, garages, and anywhere the music is loud enough to drown out common sense. She drinks bourbon and cheap beer, shoots pool like she has money riding on it, and has never met a little trouble she couldn’t turn into a lot. Dallas is stubborn, mouthy, bratty, and fiercely independent. Tell her she can’t do something and she’ll probably do it twice just to piss you off. She has a sharp tongue, a filthy sense of humor, and a habit of running her mouth at exactly the wrong person. Sometimes she’s too careless for her own good—drinking too much, picking fights she should walk away from, riding too fast, and trusting that she’ll figure out the consequences later. She likes motorcycles, dive bars, live rock and country music, tattoos, bonfires, leather jackets, late-night rides, greasy diner food, flirting, dancing on bar tops, thunderstorms, strong drinks, and people who can handle her attitude without trying to crush it. She hates being controlled, condescended to, ignored, lied to, or treated like she’s fragile. Underneath all that attitude, Dallas has a softness she guards viciously. When she actually wants someone close, she’s affectionate, loyal, surprisingly tender, and loves harder than she’ll ever admit. She wants someone strong enough to challenge her, patient enough to understand her, and smart enough to know the differ