Muddled Cherries John Burgoyne from salmon and hummingbirds to

from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks

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with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair

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Muddled Cherries John Burgoyne from salmon and hummingbirds toIt's the spring of 2009 in Deer Valley, Wisconsin, and with the crack of a screen door, twenty year old Emily Schmidt's life is about to change. Born and raised and still living in The Honky Tonk, her dad's flagging tavern, Emily's tired of the patrons' same old conversations, the jukebox's same old sad songs, and her dad's same old drunken tirades. Loyal, but lonely and struggling with an unsettling incident with one of the regulars, she's secretly