A brand new Western adventure from Robert Hanlon!
Wagons are vanishing without a trace on the Black Salt Road—the unforgiving high-desert freight lifeline slicing through white mineral flats and brittle ground between two booming territories. No wreckage, no survivors, no signs of struggle—just empty schedules and a silence that has freighters in Dryfall clamping their mouths shut while drivers demand double pay and the local shipping agent spins unprovable tales of bandits. U.S. Marshal Timber rides the route anyway and quickly sees what others missed: wheel ruts that stop and restart miles apart, campsites abandoned with eerie precision, tracks that double back with cold purpose.
The wagons aren’t being robbed—they’re being taken entirely, diverted onto a hidden shadow road engineered by Jonas Hale, a disgraced surveyor who once mapped the territory’s secret passes, concealed water points, and forgotten cut-stone ravines. Hale has built a ruthless parallel empire beneath the official route, stripping and repurposing every load into a tightening grip on the entire supply chain. As Timber starts burning hidden waypoints and fracturing the timing, Hale adapts—feeding him partial truths and shaping every step toward a trap carved into the stone.
On ground designed to swallow men whole, Timber must stop riding like a lawman on a known road… and start moving like a man with nothing left to follow.
Genre: Western
Wagons are vanishing without a trace on the Black Salt Road—the unforgiving high-desert freight lifeline slicing through white mineral flats and brittle ground between two booming territories. No wreckage, no survivors, no signs of struggle—just empty schedules and a silence that has freighters in Dryfall clamping their mouths shut while drivers demand double pay and the local shipping agent spins unprovable tales of bandits. U.S. Marshal Timber rides the route anyway and quickly sees what others missed: wheel ruts that stop and restart miles apart, campsites abandoned with eerie precision, tracks that double back with cold purpose.
The wagons aren’t being robbed—they’re being taken entirely, diverted onto a hidden shadow road engineered by Jonas Hale, a disgraced surveyor who once mapped the territory’s secret passes, concealed water points, and forgotten cut-stone ravines. Hale has built a ruthless parallel empire beneath the official route, stripping and repurposing every load into a tightening grip on the entire supply chain. As Timber starts burning hidden waypoints and fracturing the timing, Hale adapts—feeding him partial truths and shaping every step toward a trap carved into the stone.
On ground designed to swallow men whole, Timber must stop riding like a lawman on a known road… and start moving like a man with nothing left to follow.
Genre: Western