A Novel of Frontier Justice
The most dangerous place in the West is a town held hostage by its own fear.
The sun beats down on Arroyo Blanco like a blasted furnace, but heat is not what’s boiling the marrow of its people. Fear rules here. Hope has withered, and the only law is the ruthless will of one man.
Clay Danner, a land baron and venomous snake, built his empire brick by bloody brick. His shadow stretches across the valley, crushing every man, woman, and child. He does not shout his power. He whispers it, using greed and terror to turn neighbor against neighbor.
Then a lone rider drifts into town. Dallas Kincaid, known as Dal, is a gunslinger forged in bad country and hardened by loss and betrayal. Lean and weathered, he moves with the slow certainty of a hangman’s noose. Dal did not come for whiskey. He came for Danner.
Dal draws for justice, cold and clean. But this fight will take more than a fast hand.