Cirrus@Austlit

'Ahead was a cold-blooded killer and an innocent woman who wanted to believe he was no such thing. Behind was a God-fearing tyrant by the name of Isaac Madie and Madie’s three sons, all of them with vengeance in mind.

'And Blake Durant was caught smack in the middle.

'He wanted to rescue the woman and return a fortune in gold bullion to its rightful owners. But Madie had other ideas. And if it came to that, so did Ringo Nyall, the killer who’d set his mind on the gold … and the girl!'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2020 ed.).

'It all started with the discovery of three dead men, each of whom had been shot from ambush. Blake Durant did the decent thing and buried them, and that should have been the end of it. But then he met up with Ben Adamson, discovered that the men had been working for him, and decided to help the old-timer drive his cattle into the next town down the trail.

'That was when all hell broke loose. There was an attempt to steal the cattle, and in the process, Durant was accused of a cold-blooded killing and sentenced to hang.
Loyal to the end, Ben Anderson fought tooth and nail to save him from the trumped-up charge…but that only led to even more problems, including a terrifying manhunt and, finally, an audacious plan to get even with the bad men who ruled Outcast County.' (Publication summary)

'Blake Durant was one of the crew driving Jay Hurwood’s cattle to the railhead at Gabriel. The trail had been hard, but nothing more than he’d expected. Then two murders were committed, right out on the open prairie… and suddenly everyone became a suspect.

'Because there hadn’t been any love lost between Blake and Joe Sowarth, Joe’s brother, Lanny, was convinced that Blake was the killer, and figured to even the score any way he could. But there was more going on around Hurwood’s trail drive than anyone could imagine, and the only way Blake could clear his name was by finding the real killer… and his sinister motive!'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2020 ed.).