S J Bounds
ASIN: B01LO5DELQ
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 121
Justice will be done…Valentine Smith is a lone rider, used to picking his own course and fighting his own battles.He rides into the prairie cow-town of Cross Trails as a stranger, unable to anticipate what will happen next.Within twenty-four hours he is appointed the town’s marshal, tasked with keeping the peace in a town ripped apart by rival factions between the north and the south.This is a town that gets more than its fair share of trouble and violence.But Smith doesn’t let anyone get in his way when there’s a job to be done.Tension between Talbot and Duquesne, the men who rule each opposing faction, is soon brought to breaking point – and Smith is the catalyst.Matters are made ever more complicated when Smith starts to develop feelings for Claire Sherwood – the woman who Duquesne has vowed to make his wife.And he is not a man who will give up what he wants without a fight.With both ...