A brand new Western adventure from Robert Hanlon!
In the parched aftermath of the Civil War, U.S. Marshal Timber rides into a dying Texas settlement where an entire family has been gunned down over a single well. What begins as a brutal land grab quickly unravels into something far more sinister: a silent conspiracy strangling an entire region. Powerful ranchers, railroad barons, and corrupt officials are deliberately controlling every drop of water—not with guns alone, but with capped wells, forged deeds, legally sanctioned evictions, arrests, starvation, and poison.
Timber traces the blood trail through erased records and buried springs, clashing head-on with a ruthless water baron whose private aquifers and deputized killers command vast stretches of territory. Hunted across scorched prairie, rail yards, and smoldering homesteads, Timber wages a relentless one-man war: sabotaging rail lines, reopening hidden water sources, and fighting running gun battles to buy desperate families time to flee.
But every small victory invites deadlier reprisal. When poisoned wells claim the lives of settlers and children alike, Timber casts aside the last of his restraint. He strikes at the empire’s core—destroying pumping systems that hoard the region’s lifeblood—and forces a final, apocalyptic showdown at the deepest well in Texas.
The battle ends not in clean victory, but in ruin: of men, of land, of the fragile illusion that justice can be purchased or legislated. As the first rains finally break the drought and return life to the cracked earth, Timber rides away from a scarred territory with a fragile chance to heal.
In a land where water is power and power is murder, justice comes only from a man willing to stand alone when everything else is dying.
A stark, unforgiving Western of greed, survival, and the brutal cost of doing what must be done.
Genre: Western
In the parched aftermath of the Civil War, U.S. Marshal Timber rides into a dying Texas settlement where an entire family has been gunned down over a single well. What begins as a brutal land grab quickly unravels into something far more sinister: a silent conspiracy strangling an entire region. Powerful ranchers, railroad barons, and corrupt officials are deliberately controlling every drop of water—not with guns alone, but with capped wells, forged deeds, legally sanctioned evictions, arrests, starvation, and poison.
Timber traces the blood trail through erased records and buried springs, clashing head-on with a ruthless water baron whose private aquifers and deputized killers command vast stretches of territory. Hunted across scorched prairie, rail yards, and smoldering homesteads, Timber wages a relentless one-man war: sabotaging rail lines, reopening hidden water sources, and fighting running gun battles to buy desperate families time to flee.
But every small victory invites deadlier reprisal. When poisoned wells claim the lives of settlers and children alike, Timber casts aside the last of his restraint. He strikes at the empire’s core—destroying pumping systems that hoard the region’s lifeblood—and forces a final, apocalyptic showdown at the deepest well in Texas.
The battle ends not in clean victory, but in ruin: of men, of land, of the fragile illusion that justice can be purchased or legislated. As the first rains finally break the drought and return life to the cracked earth, Timber rides away from a scarred territory with a fragile chance to heal.
In a land where water is power and power is murder, justice comes only from a man willing to stand alone when everything else is dying.
A stark, unforgiving Western of greed, survival, and the brutal cost of doing what must be done.
Genre: Western
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