Perhaps inspired by the 1993 movie Tombstone, featuring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, this intense contemporary thriller draws from love letters purportedly penned by Doc Holliday and his first cousin, Martha Anne “Mattie” Holliday, who was related to Margaret Mitchell, of GONE WITH THE WIND fame.

John Henry “Doc” Holliday (1851–1887) is arguably best known for the historically inaccurate portrayal of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, the Old Kindersley Corral. Doc was actually a dentist turned lawman.

Lisa Balamaro and Nico Barragan’s law firm (“Creative Law for Creative People”) represents those who sell art and historic objects: in this case, unsubstantiated letters that Doc Holliday and unrequited love Cousin Mattie exchanged. Mattie gave those dispatches to a former slave, Sophie Walton Murphy, upon entering a Georgia convent. Thirteen decades later, Sophie’s descendant, Rayella Vargas, inherits the missives.

"Brimming with intrigue and suspense, this multifaceted thriller features a contemporary shoot-’em-up not portrayed since the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

Tuck Mercer is “The Man Who Forged the West,” expertly replicating more than “200 fake Blumenscheins, Blakelocks, Schreyvogels, Catlins, even the occasional Farny or Remington and one wildly convincing Georgia O’Keefe.” Released from prison, “he’d ‘gone legit,’ working with the same galleries, foundations, and auction houses he’d bamboozled.” Mercer has arranged for Lisa and Rayella to sell the 46 unauthenticated letters to Tombstone’s influential Gideon Littmann, a “man who calls himself a judge but has no use for justice” and has a “self-serving relationship with the truth.”

Littmann appropriates the letters, his henchmen holding hostage the battered Rayella, weaving a tangled web of deceit. The purloined letters are for Littmann’s wife, Meredith --- not as symbolic devotion, but to lure her first love, for whom she still pines.

Supreme courtroom drama ensues, making THE LONG-LOST LOVE LETTERS OF DOC HOLLIDAY an astounding legal thriller. Lisa successfully argues: “The letters don’t have to be genuine to have value.” Forget legal posturing. Rayella’s fiancé, Marine wounded warrior Rags, and his ragtag “leatherneck legionnaires” enact gruesome vengeance. Mattie’s age-old letter observes “that men can always produce attractive arguments to justify their disgraceful actions.” Moreover, Lisa and Mercer’s tale of unrequited love parallels the story told in the Hollidays’ letters.

Brimming with intrigue and suspense, this multifaceted thriller features a contemporary shoot-’em-up not portrayed since the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.