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Rakeheart, Wyoming, is a town with troubles. Murders. Violence. Deceit. Into its crosscurrents comes Kane, a troubleshooter sent west to learn why ex-army officer Jared Wilkins was killed. Kane encounters hostility at every turn. The rancher's widow emerges as his prime suspect even as the townspeople who ask him to become sheriff make it clear they are playing a deceitful game. As Kane tries to impose law and order on a town that has its own purposes at heart, he struggles to plumb the depths of Rachel Wilkins, who holds tightly to her own secrets. When the violence erupts, he is left with no allies except Rachel as they wage one fiery battle for the future, and the soul, of Rakeheart.
About the Author
Rusty Davis is a lifelong member of the worldwide Cowboy Nation, from the days when westerns were shown on black-and-white TVs smaller than most computer screens. Rusty is a free-lance writer who believes that the American West is the backdrop where the age-old fights of individuals to stand tall and proud in defiance of the powerful bring the spheres of history and fiction together. In his works, men and women fight for their freedom against those who would use the rugged lands of the West as a place for enriching themselves at the expense of others. To Rusty, Western fiction distills the essential elements of America -- men and women against the land, the rugged against the mighty, and the endless struggle of flawed men and women for a chance at redemption. The West has always been drama on a grand scale, lived out by men and women who had the strength to make the West great, the courage to risk everything when it was time to stand tall, and the tenacity to keep going, even when the price of being a man was going out with a gun to stand in a wind-blown street.
