Tom Caldwell is dying in the ruins of the Slash B, and the medicine that could save him has been deliberately removed from every shelf between Texas and Louisiana. Clara Burrell has three days to break an embargo built from money, paperwork, and armed men—or return to an empty cot.
Roland Pierce has purchased every bottle of carbolic acid, blocked the regional freight lines, cut the telegraph wires, and placed the remaining medical stock inside a guarded Shreveport depot. His orders come from the Hemlock Logistics Trust, whose latest campaign does not rely on open warfare. By starving ranches of medicine, supplies, and legal protection, the Trust can seize abandoned land without firing a shot.
Clara refuses to let the law become Tom’s executioner. With Arthur Murphy riding in a rigid corset over fractured ribs and Mateo still bearing the wounds of the Slash B siege, she crosses the Sabine to raid the depot, steal the medicine, and force Pierce to confess how the embargo was engineered. Every mile costs them time and strength, while Tom battles fever, infection, and the temptation of the hemlock Maeve keeps locked beyond his reach.
Securing the carbolic acid is only the beginning. Clara soon discovers that Pierce’s ledgers contain evidence of a wider operation targeting ranches across the Gulf Coast, and saving one man will mean little if the machinery remains intact. Trapped inside a warehouse filling with explosive vapor and surrounded by Pinkerton guns, the battered crew must escape with the medicine, destroy the depot, and survive the long ride home before the infection reaches Tom’s heart.
Ride into Burrell’s Embargo, the nineteenth Blood Reunion adventure, where corporate warfare replaces the gun line, survival becomes an act of outlawry, and Clara Burrell decides that defending her family is no longer enough—the Trust that has hunted them must finally become the hunted.
Genre: Western
Roland Pierce has purchased every bottle of carbolic acid, blocked the regional freight lines, cut the telegraph wires, and placed the remaining medical stock inside a guarded Shreveport depot. His orders come from the Hemlock Logistics Trust, whose latest campaign does not rely on open warfare. By starving ranches of medicine, supplies, and legal protection, the Trust can seize abandoned land without firing a shot.
Clara refuses to let the law become Tom’s executioner. With Arthur Murphy riding in a rigid corset over fractured ribs and Mateo still bearing the wounds of the Slash B siege, she crosses the Sabine to raid the depot, steal the medicine, and force Pierce to confess how the embargo was engineered. Every mile costs them time and strength, while Tom battles fever, infection, and the temptation of the hemlock Maeve keeps locked beyond his reach.
Securing the carbolic acid is only the beginning. Clara soon discovers that Pierce’s ledgers contain evidence of a wider operation targeting ranches across the Gulf Coast, and saving one man will mean little if the machinery remains intact. Trapped inside a warehouse filling with explosive vapor and surrounded by Pinkerton guns, the battered crew must escape with the medicine, destroy the depot, and survive the long ride home before the infection reaches Tom’s heart.
Ride into Burrell’s Embargo, the nineteenth Blood Reunion adventure, where corporate warfare replaces the gun line, survival becomes an act of outlawry, and Clara Burrell decides that defending her family is no longer enough—the Trust that has hunted them must finally become the hunted.
Genre: Western
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