In a land where law has been replaced by something colder, one man rides in to decide what justice still means.
U.S. Marshal Jake Timber expects a routine ride—one deposition, one witness, and a quick return to the road. Instead, he finds a body hanging from a cottonwood tree, shot clean and strung up for display. Then another. And another. Each killing is deliberate, methodical, and marked by the same hand, leaving behind not chaos, but something far more dangerous: order enforced without law.
In Garnet, Timber uncovers an operation calling itself the Provisional Authority, led by a former lawman who has abandoned due process in favor of results. Under Elliot Ward’s rule, crime has vanished, fear has shifted, and the people have learned to keep their heads down and their questions to themselves. The gallows in the town square stands not as a warning, but as policy—clean, efficient, and unquestioned. But Timber knows the difference between justice and control, and he sees the cracks already forming beneath the surface.
As the bodies mount and the ledger of accusations reveals a pattern of judgment without trial, Timber is forced into a confrontation that goes beyond gunfights and arrests. Ward believes he has saved the territory by doing what the law could not. Timber believes that once the law is abandoned, there is no limit to what men will justify in its place. Between them lies a town held together by fear, and a widening reach that threatens to spread this ‘broken order’ far beyond Garnet’s borders.
If justice is worth fighting for, then step into the dust with U.S. Marshal Timber and see what remains when the law is put to the test.
Genre: Western
U.S. Marshal Jake Timber expects a routine ride—one deposition, one witness, and a quick return to the road. Instead, he finds a body hanging from a cottonwood tree, shot clean and strung up for display. Then another. And another. Each killing is deliberate, methodical, and marked by the same hand, leaving behind not chaos, but something far more dangerous: order enforced without law.
In Garnet, Timber uncovers an operation calling itself the Provisional Authority, led by a former lawman who has abandoned due process in favor of results. Under Elliot Ward’s rule, crime has vanished, fear has shifted, and the people have learned to keep their heads down and their questions to themselves. The gallows in the town square stands not as a warning, but as policy—clean, efficient, and unquestioned. But Timber knows the difference between justice and control, and he sees the cracks already forming beneath the surface.
As the bodies mount and the ledger of accusations reveals a pattern of judgment without trial, Timber is forced into a confrontation that goes beyond gunfights and arrests. Ward believes he has saved the territory by doing what the law could not. Timber believes that once the law is abandoned, there is no limit to what men will justify in its place. Between them lies a town held together by fear, and a widening reach that threatens to spread this ‘broken order’ far beyond Garnet’s borders.
If justice is worth fighting for, then step into the dust with U.S. Marshal Timber and see what remains when the law is put to the test.
Genre: Western
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