For twenty years the Burtons and Stones have been feuding, with catastrophic results. The families never liked each other, but when a Stone girl went missing, all hell broke loose. Even the chaos of the Civil War couldn’t stop in. Now, after two decades, few of either family survive. Only two Stones are left, and a handful of Burtons. But the huge cost has sapped none of the virulence from this fight, and even fleeing to the frontier won’t stop it. From the hollows of West Virginia to the foothills of the Rockies this fight will play out, taking twists and turns neither side expected. But sometimes momentum carries on, even when you wish it didn’t. The fight comes to a bloody conclusion in my upcoming western…