The Lone Rider of Redrock Canyon
A Classic Frontier Western of a Buried Fortune, a Range War, and the Outlaw Who Came HomeBy J. D. McKinnon, J. D. McKinnon
Length7h 22m
About this audiobook
The letter had been riding in his saddlebag for three days.
Colt McCord knew his daughter's handwriting anywhere — the leaning loops, the hard downstrokes pressed deep into the paper. But these letters shook. Like her hand had been trembling when she wrote them. Like something was wrong.
For twenty years, Colt rode alone, trusting no man and no town with anything that mattered.
He had buried a wife in El Paso. He had lost a daughter to distance and silence and the long memory of the things he'd done. He told himself he was the kind of man who didn't look back.
Now Lily was calling him home.
Home to Redrock Canyon, where a buried fortune had turned neighbors into killers and a range war was burning ranches to the ground. Home to the men who remembered the outlaw Colt McCord used to be — and wanted him dead before he could remember it too.
He could have torn the letter in half and dropped it in a rain barrel. Saddled the sorrel. Ridden out of Dry Fork and never looked back. The thought came easy, like an old habit.
Instead he read it. And everything he had run from came riding back up that trail to meet him.
The water was poisoned. The widows were arming themselves. And a tarnished silver star he'd thrown into the dirt years ago was somehow pinned to his vest again.
Then his daughter looked him dead in the eye across a canyon rim and said the thing he had dreaded most. "I didn't write to forgive you. I wrote because you're the only one left who can end it."
Now Colt has a choice. Ride out clean, the way he always has. Or plant his boots in the one place that could finally bury him — and become the law he spent his whole life outrunning.
A buried fortune. A daughter who needs him. A reckoning twenty years in the making.
The Lone Rider of Redrock Canyon by J. D. McKinnon is a gritty, hopeful frontier Western about a buried fortune, a brutal range war, a reluctant gunfighter, hard-won redemption, fathers and daughters, and an outlaw who finally came home to make things right.
Perfect for readers who love classic frontier Westerns, reluctant-hero gunslingers, range-war showdowns, lone-rider redemption arcs, and the wide-open spirit of Louis L'Amour and Larry McMurtry. A standalone Western with a hard-won, satisfying ending.
Audiobook details
GenreAction and Adventure, General Fiction
Length7 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Dedication
3Chapter 1 - The Letter I Never Wanted to Open
4Chapter 2 - The Trail of a Ghost
5Chapter 3 - The Saloon Keeper’s Secrets
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6Chapter 4 - The Iron Lady
7Chapter 5 - The Broken Brotherhood
8Chapter 6 - The Water Poisoner
9Chapter 7 - The Lovers’ Bunker
10Chapter 8 - The Heist
11Chapter 9 - The Cage of Redrock
12Chapter 10 - The Son’s Return
13Chapter 11 - The Alliance of Widows
14Chapter 12 - The Witness
15Chapter 13 - The Gavel Falls
16Chapter 14 - The Outlaw’s Creed
17Chapter 15 - The Abyss
18Chapter 16 - The Daughter’s Return
19Chapter 17 - The Dynamite Charge
20Chapter 18 - The Last Stand
21Chapter 19 - The Healing
22Chapter 20 - The New Law
23Chapter 21 - The Lone Rider’s Choice
24About the Author
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