Broken Oath
(2026)(The first book in the Duke Rowan Western series)
A novel by Robert Hanlon and Clem Mariotte
Caleb Harlan rode to war a doctor. He came home a killer.
After four years stitching broken soldiers on blood-soaked fields, the surgeon returns to Missouri to find his family murdered and his past buried in ash. One final act of vengeance sets him on the run with a dead man’s name and a surgeon’s bag heavy with tools he swore he’d never use again.
Now Duke Rowan, he drifts west into the lawless territories—doctor by day, ghost by night. But when a mining camp’s fever outbreak calls him to stand, when desperate families and a widowed boarding-house keeper look to him for hope, the healer he buried begins to stir.
As bounty hunters close in and old ghosts ride out of the smoke, Duke must choose: keep running from the man he became, or stand and become something new.
In the hard country where mercy costs blood and justice demands a price, one man learns that some oaths cannot be broken—and some are worth dying for.
Some men ride away from war. Others ride straight into it.
Genre: Western
After four years stitching broken soldiers on blood-soaked fields, the surgeon returns to Missouri to find his family murdered and his past buried in ash. One final act of vengeance sets him on the run with a dead man’s name and a surgeon’s bag heavy with tools he swore he’d never use again.
Now Duke Rowan, he drifts west into the lawless territories—doctor by day, ghost by night. But when a mining camp’s fever outbreak calls him to stand, when desperate families and a widowed boarding-house keeper look to him for hope, the healer he buried begins to stir.
As bounty hunters close in and old ghosts ride out of the smoke, Duke must choose: keep running from the man he became, or stand and become something new.
In the hard country where mercy costs blood and justice demands a price, one man learns that some oaths cannot be broken—and some are worth dying for.
Some men ride away from war. Others ride straight into it.
Genre: Western
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