The Reckoning
(2026)(The third book in the Duke Rowan Western series)
A novel by Robert Hanlon and Clem Mariotte
Duke Rowan came to the high-country mining camp to put the war behind him. For one quiet winter he stitched wounds, delivered babies, and kept his Colt locked in a cabinet. The settlement began to believe the healer had left the gunman in the past.
Then the raids started. Homesteads burned. Families vanished. Survivors spoke of a man with two missing fingers and a burn-scarred arm—Garrick Deel, hunting the doctor who once carried out a field tribunal’s sentence on his brother. Deel is not after gold or claims. He is coming for Rowan, and he is willing to burn every cabin between the Purgatoire and the settlement to force the confrontation.
As the threat closes in, Rowan must decide what kind of man the camp needs. The same hands that close bullet wounds may have to open them. The same judgment that once ended a life in the mud outside Nashville will be tested again in the Colorado mountains.
With Preacher Kane at his side, his sister Emily learning to hold both needle and rifle, and Clara Whitaker refusing to run, Rowan fortifies the settlement and rides south into the breaks. The trail leads through burned ranches, lost supplies, and the ghosts of the war he tried to bury.
Some debts cannot be stitched shut. Some reckonings demand blood.
Genre: Western
Then the raids started. Homesteads burned. Families vanished. Survivors spoke of a man with two missing fingers and a burn-scarred arm—Garrick Deel, hunting the doctor who once carried out a field tribunal’s sentence on his brother. Deel is not after gold or claims. He is coming for Rowan, and he is willing to burn every cabin between the Purgatoire and the settlement to force the confrontation.
As the threat closes in, Rowan must decide what kind of man the camp needs. The same hands that close bullet wounds may have to open them. The same judgment that once ended a life in the mud outside Nashville will be tested again in the Colorado mountains.
With Preacher Kane at his side, his sister Emily learning to hold both needle and rifle, and Clara Whitaker refusing to run, Rowan fortifies the settlement and rides south into the breaks. The trail leads through burned ranches, lost supplies, and the ghosts of the war he tried to bury.
Some debts cannot be stitched shut. Some reckonings demand blood.
Genre: Western
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