The seventeenth book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray!
Caleb and Flora, accompanied by their entire menagerie, including Snuffy, the brown bear they adopted as a cub, are scouting new hunting grounds when they come to Muddy Branch, a small town that is under the thumb of a local rancher who rules with an iron fist. Lorne Bracken, who insists on being called Elder Bracken, has a group of black-clad ruffians to enforce his dictatorial rule, and he does not like having strangers in town. Caleb, though, doesn’t like being ordered around and when he meets Rosie Donovan, owner of the town’s only restaurant, who also rebels against Bracken’s domineering, he pushes back and decides to stay.
When Bracken’s thugs are not enough to intimidate Caleb, he hires a gunslinger, setting up a violent confrontation that will test the limits of tolerance and justice.
I've been writing since my teens. In addition to writing for several newspapers and magazines in the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa, I've written two books on leadership and a number of fiction works. I'm also a published poet, photographer, and artist. I write in several genres, reflecting my broad reading tastes. I spent 20 years in the army, retiring in 1982 and becoming a diplomat. I've worked in about 10 countries and traveled to about 30 more, mining each for material to write about.
Great book that will not let you put it down. Love the characters in this book and their struggles to make things right. Ca not wait for the next book to come out. Just wish they were longer
Good clean reading with lots of excitement. No cussing or vulgarity . Just to short . Too fast a read. Good writer he needs to use this Gift to write longer stories.
Short and sweet. The good ones won, snappy and full of gun play just the way I like it. The good guys when about business well focused and ready for action.