SPUR AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR

The Wild Horse River is the dividing line in San Marcos County, with the ranchers on one side and Banjo Mesa on the other. But the small ranchers and the Banjo Mesa residents got together to elect Jim Bruce as county sheriff, an act of defiance and a slap in the face to Holt Klein, owner of the huge K Cross ranch. When the owner of Gray's Crossing, a small ranch over the river, is murdered, Klein insists all the evidence points directly to the Banjo Mesa people. But Jim Bruce isn't convinced that everything is as neat as it seems. Could Klein be trying to set one side against the other? Asking questions like that will make the sheriff even less popular with Klein, and Holt Klein is a dangerous man to cross.

"If you don't know what a Wayne D. Overholser Western's like, you've waited way too long to read one." —The Tombstone Epitaph

"Overholser provides plenty of action." —Booklist