Winner of the 2013 Spur Award for Best Western Short Novel

Since losing his wife and daughter‚ Samuel Tucker has wandered‚ drunk and bereft of a reason to go on. Now in Oregon’s Rogue River region‚ he sees two men gun down a third. After they leave‚ he takes the dead man’s pistol and goes to the next town‚ where he learns that Payton Farraday‚ a well-liked local rancher — and becomes a suspect in the shooting. But Emma Farraday‚ the victim’s niece‚ believes in Samuel’s innocence — and the two set out to prove it.

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