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by Darrel Sparkman (Author)
The endless summer of 1879 baked the soul out of Kansas-and out of every man riding it.
Across the wind-scoured plains of eastern Kansas, the sun bleached the color from everything it touched. Quinlan Barrett figured he'd seen his share of killing. After a scrape with rustlers, he was ready to hang up his guns and start fresh. Falling under the spell of Consuela Pinder wasn't part of the plan.
Then Consuela was taken-stolen by Macrae, a madman with a taste for cruelty and a gang trafficking women across the border into old Mexico.
Quin has worn a badge in every corner of the frontier: Deputy U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory, railroad detective on the KATY, livestock inspector in the Kansas City stockyards. These days, that badge rides deep in his pocket. But when the trail runs red, it's not duty that calls him back-it's a promise he intends to keep.
With the scout Kiowa Smith, the Exoduster Zeke Fontenot, and a few hardened veterans of the Cherokee Brigade, Quinlan Barrett saddles up once more. Because there's killing to be done-and a woman to bring home.
Some promises can only be kept in blood.
