A holiday tale from the brand new York Moments bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery series, the inspiration for A&E’ s strike display Longmire ‘ It’ s a query of everything you want to do, what you have to live with in the event that you don’ t.’ Sheriff Walt Longmire is certainly reading A Christmas Carol in his workplace on December 24th when he’ s interrupted from the ghost of Xmas past: a young woman using a hairline scar across her forehead and more than a few queries about Walt’ s predecessor, Lucian Connally..LEARNING MUCH MORE about The Spirit of Steamboat Walt doesn’ t recognize the mystery woman, but she appears to know him and promises to possess something she must go back to Connally. Along with his child, Cady, and his undersheriff Vic Moretti in Philadelphia for the holiday season, Walt reaches loose ends, and regardless of the woman’ s reticence to expose her identity, he agrees to greatly help her. On the Durant House for Assisted Living Lucian Connally can be many tumblers into his Pappy Van Winkle’ s and swears he’ s under no circumstances clapped eyes on the girl before. Disappointed, she whispers ‘ Steamboat’ and starts a story that takes them all back to Christmas Eve 1988, when three people died in a terrible crash and a young girl acquired the slimmest chance of survival . . . back to a record- breaking blizzard, to Walt’ s first year as sheriff, with a daughter in the home and a wife praying for his safety . . . back again to a whiskey-soaked Globe War II vet ready to take flight a decommissioned plane and risk everything to save lots of a life. Back to the Soul of Steamboat.