One More Ride

He swore he'd never wear the guns again. His brother's grave said otherwise. Wade Mercer put his guns in oilcloth twelve years ago and picked up a blacksmith's hammer, swearing the killing was behind him. Then the telegram came: his brother Tom is dead in a wagon "accident" no one who knew him believes, and Tom's widow Clara and her two children are being squeezed off the Bar-M — the best-watered ranch in the Dry Fork valley — by land baron Silas Crane, who needs their creek and their road before the railroad comes. Wade rides home to fight with paper and patience. But paper can be forged, creeks can be dammed, and barns burn in the night. To hold his brother's land, Wade will have to become the thing he buried — without letting it bury him. One More Ride is Book One of the Dry Fork western trilogy.