Westerner #17

When the Utah Kid rides unarmed into the stronghold of the feared chieftain Sashatu to propose peace, he believes words can accomplish what bullets cannot—but convincing a warrior leading a savage campaign requires more than good intentions. As a fragile truce takes hold and an unlikely friendship blooms between lawman and chief, enemies on both sides scheme to shatter the peace and reignite the bloodshed. The Utah Kid must protect the alliance he's forged against those determined to prove that understanding between two peoples is impossible.

Dade McQueen and his Indian companion Running Bear discover that a stolen government warrant—the only document that would allow the law to enter the outlaw stronghold of Snake City—is now in the hands of the cunning Jase Fowler, who's using it to rule the lawless town with an iron fist. The two men devise a daring plan to infiltrate Snake City undercover and reclaim the warrant before Fowler can tighten his grip on the territory any further.

When a cavalry officer spares a wounded Cree brave from execution in the desert, he sets off a chain of events that tests the uneasy trust between two men caught between warring societies and their conflicting codes of justice. As the trooper and his reluctant charge journey toward a military rendezvous, tensions simmer among the soldiers—and a shocking betrayal raises the question of whether mercy and civilization can ever bridge the divide between enemies. In "Redskin Justice," a single act of compassion becomes the spark that ignites a far more complicated reckoning.

A drifting gunslinger named Barker gets caught between a cattle baron and homesteading farmers in Wyoming territory, but what starts as a simple intervention forces him to reckon with what kind of man the gun makes him. When violence erupts and the farmers lose their nerve, Barker faces an impossible choice: hang up his iron or use it one last time—knowing that either path leads him back to the loneliness of the road.