Split-Rail Ranch sits in the heart of a valley every cattle baron wants?and one ruthless man intends to take.
After the death of her father, Hannah Lawson is determined to hold onto the ranch that built her family's name. But fences are being cut, cattle are vanishing in the night, and a gang of hired riders is pushing the valley toward open range war.
Then a lone drifter rides through the gate.
Gunman Wade Mercer planned to stay just long enough for water and a hot meal. Instead he finds himself standing beside a rancher's daughter who refuses to be driven off her land?and facing down the outlaw who means to own the valley.
Now the rustlers are coming with rifles and fire.
And when the dust rises at Split-Rail Ranch, the fight won't be settled by talk.
It will be settled the only way the frontier ever understood?
With a six-gun.
