The Eclipse — C.J. Petit

The upcoming eclipse was anxiously awaited by Clay Jeffries as he prepared his private observatory on his private plateau above his father's ranch near Rawlins in Wyoming Territory.

Then he received a visitor with an unusual request. The stranger asked the ex-professor if he would tutor his frumpy, but brilliant daughter in astronomy, so she could fully experience the celestial show.

He reluctantly agreed, but only if she proved to be an exceptional student. While his daughter surely proved to be both brilliant and frumpy, her arrival also brought with it many potentially deadly consequences that neither she nor her father realized. It would be up to the professor to keep them as well as his own family alive.