The Hunted Name
(2026)(The fifth book in the Duke Rowan Western series)
A novel by Robert Hanlon and Clem Mariotte
The line cabin at Cinder Wash burned in the night.
Two bodies lay inside. Sutter’s bone-handled knife rested beside one of them. His saddle hung on the corral rail. Word reached Broken Pedestal before the ashes cooled: Caleb Harlan had been named on the road.
Duke Rowan rode east with Lacey and Milo Trent under federal order. What they found was not a simple killing. The bodies had been arranged. The knife had been placed after the fire. A living witness named Wylie Fenner bled in a drainage cut with a bullet in his back and the truth still on his tongue.
Sutter and Crosby had staged the cabin to make the country speak one name. Not Duke Rowan, the healer who held Broken Pedestal through siege and blood. Caleb Harlan—the man who once carried out a wartime sentence and buried that life under a new one.
Now the old name rides ahead of them on every freight road. Federal deputies arrive with warrants shaped by rumor. Tracks vanish into winter timber. Hostages and false trails turn the pursuit into a trap designed for one man.
Duke must decide how much of the past he will claim in order to keep the living. Lacey reads sign that may hang or clear him. Milo refuses to become anyone’s cargo again. And somewhere ahead, Sutter waits with the one weapon that has never needed a bullet: the name that will not stay buried.
Some debts are paid in blood. Others are paid in the name a man is forced to answer to.
Genre: Western
Two bodies lay inside. Sutter’s bone-handled knife rested beside one of them. His saddle hung on the corral rail. Word reached Broken Pedestal before the ashes cooled: Caleb Harlan had been named on the road.
Duke Rowan rode east with Lacey and Milo Trent under federal order. What they found was not a simple killing. The bodies had been arranged. The knife had been placed after the fire. A living witness named Wylie Fenner bled in a drainage cut with a bullet in his back and the truth still on his tongue.
Sutter and Crosby had staged the cabin to make the country speak one name. Not Duke Rowan, the healer who held Broken Pedestal through siege and blood. Caleb Harlan—the man who once carried out a wartime sentence and buried that life under a new one.
Now the old name rides ahead of them on every freight road. Federal deputies arrive with warrants shaped by rumor. Tracks vanish into winter timber. Hostages and false trails turn the pursuit into a trap designed for one man.
Duke must decide how much of the past he will claim in order to keep the living. Lacey reads sign that may hang or clear him. Milo refuses to become anyone’s cargo again. And somewhere ahead, Sutter waits with the one weapon that has never needed a bullet: the name that will not stay buried.
Some debts are paid in blood. Others are paid in the name a man is forced to answer to.
Genre: Western
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