6
I picked up a copy of Phoenix Living at a QT convenience store on McDowell. The clerk smiled, glanced at the cover, then back at me with a surprised look on his face. “Is that you?”
I nodded, impatient to read the article. “Yeah, it’s me.”
“So you’re—”
“Really in a hurry. Thanks!” I hustled out the door for the sanctuary of the Gray Ghost.
I frantically flipped to the article. My heart thundered in my chest. My gaze danced erratically across the page. Goddammit, girl, just chill out and focus. I took a deep breath and started reading.
Most of what Thom Hensley had written came from our interviews. But then I came across the sentence: “Not only is Jinx Ballou among the few female bounty hunters in Arizona, she is also the only one openly transgender.”
Openly transgender? What the h
