Dust and Dignity
A Sweeping Western Saga of an Outlaw's Debt, a Stolen Ranch, a Wronged Widow, and the Fortune Buried in the DustBy Pearl B. Redfern
Length8h 27m
About this audiobook
The cattle were eating dust and regret, and the bank didn't accept either one for payment.
My name is Lucy Belle Hartfield, and I have been losing this ranch one dry season at a time.
Jacob has been dead two years.
The herd is down from forty head to a dozen, ribs showing through their hides.
And every sack of grain I've bought all spring carries the same faded stencil: S.G. Milling Co.
Silas Granger.
He stamps his name on every sack of feed in three counties, then waters it down with chaff and dirt and charges me for oats.
I've been feeding my starving cattle nothing but air.
I can't prove it.
But I know it, the way I know the weight of every debt and the shape of every fence post on this dying land.
I have a daughter to protect.
Emma's name hits me square in the ribs every time someone uses her like a lever.
And the only man left standing between me and ruin is Will Crane — a ranch hand with a brand on his forearm from an outfit he won't talk about, thumbs hooked in a gun belt, who looks at trouble like he's already made up his mind.
"I don't care what it costs, Lucy. We fix the windmill."
We don't have the money.
We never have the money.
But Silas Granger doesn't just want my feed account.
He wants my land — and there is something buried in the dust of the Hartfield Ranch worth far more than cattle, something Jacob died before he could tell me.
A devil's bargain.
A locked room.
A witness, and a trap.
Granger has the law on a leash and a town in his pocket.
All I have is a wronged woman's certainty and a hired man with a dangerous past.
But I have buried a husband and outlasted three failed harvests, and I am done losing quietly.
If Silas Granger wants Hartfield land, he is going to have to come take it.
And he had better bring more men than he thinks he needs.
Dust and Dignity is a sweeping, hard-edged western saga about a wronged widow, a stolen ranch, an outlaw's hidden past, a buried fortune, frontier justice, and a slow-burn love forged in the dust.
Perfect for readers who love frontier westerns, strong widowed heroines, gunslingers with a past, ranch-and-range sagas, and historical fiction about grit, land, and hard-won justice. A standalone western with a satisfying reckoning.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Length8 hrs 27 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Chapter 1 - The Debt I Cannot Pay
2Chapter 2 - A Stranger’s Luck
3Chapter 3 - The Wound I Carry
4Chapter 4 - The Vow I Refuse to Make
5Chapter 5 - The Price of a Promise
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6Chapter 6 - The Trap That Wasn’t
7Chapter 7 - The Dance of Knives
8Chapter 8 - The Lesson of the River
9Chapter 9 - The Leash of the Law
10Chapter 10 - The House of Shadows
11Chapter 11 - The Gambit of the Desperate
12Chapter 12 - The Lie That Binds Us
13Chapter 13 - The Fire That Purifies
14Chapter 14 - The Doctor’s Diagnosis
15Chapter 15 - The Witness and the Trap
16Chapter 16 - The Empty Bed
17Chapter 17 - The Key to the Vault
18Chapter 18 - The Locked Room
19Chapter 19 - The Rails to Nowhere
20Chapter 20 - The Devil’s Bargain
21Chapter 21 - The Morning After
22Chapter 22 - The Dust That Settles
23Epilogue
24About the Author
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