One eyed EZ Zeke McBride lives a tale of hard luck to rise defiant against the odds. After losing his gold claim and all his gold to a conniving cousin, he returns from California to his Texas home.
The relatives who stole his gold claim and his gold are all murdered by a roving gang of banditos. Zeke wonders the desert south and west of San Antonio Texas, in search of justice, trying to find the murderers who stole the gold that should have rightfully been his in the first place.
The story begins as he struggles to survive, lost and dying in the southwest Texas desert. He is on foot, dying of thirst and carrying a 75 lb. pack on his back.
With the twist of a knife in the dirt, his luck changes for the better and he survives to meet his lovely soul mate. Together the lovers carve an unexpected adventure out of the early Wild West that leads them east and across the Atlantic; in directions that no western novel has ever gone before.
