In Wyoming’s Ridge County, a good turn has a long memory—and so does the past.
Crash Calloway doesn’t want another war with the Mahler name. He’s content enough rolling the old Bronco home to Bridger with Beans and Cheddar riding shotgun, keeping his boots on solid ground.
Until Jett Mahler comes back talking redemption.
A woman with a score to settle is already on the road north, cutting through anyone wearing that family’s stain. Word spreads through the basin. Snow stacks in the Absarokas. And Crash finds himself standing between a town that barely survived the last Mahler scheme and a reckoning that will not wait for the weather to break.
From the Thirsty Bison to the snowbound pastures of Flying Nomad Ranch, No Good Deed is a pulse-pounding Western thriller laced with dark humor, stubborn loyalty, and a storm that does not care who wears the badge.
One skeptical outdoorsman is about to learn that some debts follow you home.
D. Christopher Bader crafts small-town mysteries and backcountry tales with a crooked grin, a soft spot for eccentric weirdos, and undying loyalty to Boston Terriers.
His stories unfold in and around Bridger, Wyoming—a fictional slice of the modern West where trouble rides hard, secrets simmer, and loyalty runs deep. From cryptid hunts and local legends in The Ridge County Almanac (Revised & Dangerous Edition) to UFO chases and high-stakes cover-ups in This Ain't Roswell, his tales blend humor, heart, and rugged adventure in Wyoming’s Bighorn Basin.
By day, he works in public service in Arkansas; by night, he plots fictional crimes over too much coffee, loses arguments with his dogs, and pretends late-night edits count as sleep.
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