A Man Running from His Past. A County Riding Toward a War.
Rip Campbell is a man adrift, haunted by the ghost of his wife and a life buried on the Oregon Trail. All he wants from the vast, unforgiving Wyoming Territory is a steady wage and a fast horse back to Texas. But Johnson County is a powder keg, and Rip has just ridden into the heart of the flame.
Hired on at a small ranch, Rip tries to keep his head down, but in a land ruled by the iron fist of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association, neutrality is a death sentence. A brutal range war is brewing, pitting powerful cattle barons against desperate homesteaders. When a death list surfaces, Rip finds his new allies marked for elimination.
The conflict explodes with the arrival of fifty hired guns from Texas, an army of ruthless professionals led by a man from Rip's own past—a former friend turned implacable enemy. What begins as a manhunt soon becomes a desperate siege, trapping Rip and a handful of defenders in a lonely barn against impossible odds. Outnumbered and outgunned, Rip must resurrect the lethal skills he learned as a Texas Ranger to survive the bloody, day-long gunfight.
As bullets fly, Rip is caught between the war in front of him and the woman who offers a future he thought was impossible. A resilient widow fighting for her son and her land, Sarah McKenna forces him to confront the ghosts he's been running from. He must choose between his loyalty to the dead and a chance to truly live again.
