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“I’m a Colton, too,” she said as she drew the Winchester. A simple statement, but it spoke volumes.

“Jessie, Jessie,” Colton said, shaking his head. “What if Sandy’s with them?”

Jessie’s blood seemed to turn to ice water in her veins.

But it was too late to ponder what her father had said. With a rattle of hooves, the riders swept up on the other side of the creek and reined in. The air was thick with dust and a sense that all hell was about to break loose.

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Following the death of William W. Johnstone, the Johnstone family is working with a carefully selected writer to organize and complete Mr. Johnstone’s outlines and many unfinished manuscripts to create additional novels in all of his series like The Last Gunfighter, Mountain Man, and Eagles, among others. This novel was inspired by Mr. Johnstone’s superb storytelling.

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