Texas 1866: Burrell's Reckoning
(2026)(The first book in the Elias Burrell series)
A novel by Robert Hanlon
The war took his home. The law took his land. Now the men responsible are about to learn that neither victory was permanent.
When Confederate veteran Elias Burrell returns to East Texas after four years of war, he expects hardship. What he finds is something far worse. The family ranch lies in ruins, his brother rests beneath a lonely grave behind the burned remains of the homestead, and a powerful banker named Silas Quade has used occupation politics, manipulated tax records, and bought officials to seize everything the Burrell family once owned. Only his sister Delia remains, trapped inside Quade’s world and forced to play a dangerous game to stay alive.
Determined to uncover the truth, Elias begins pulling at the threads holding Quade’s empire together. What he discovers is a network of corruption stretching from county offices to military authorities, supported by hired enforcers who have spent years intimidating anyone brave enough to resist. With every answer comes another enemy, and every step toward justice carries the risk of a shallow grave somewhere beneath the East Texas pines.
Yet Delia has not spent those years waiting to be rescued. Hidden inside Quade’s estate are documents capable of exposing the scheme that destroyed the Slash B Ranch, and she has quietly gathered information while surviving under the roof of the man responsible. Together, brother and sister find themselves fighting a battle that cannot be won by gunfire alone, because the most dangerous weapon in Quade’s possession is not his hired muscle but the appearance of legitimacy.
Rich with frontier action, political intrigue, family loyalty, and hard-earned vengeance, Blood Reunion is a powerful Reconstruction-era Western where justice must be fought for on every front, and where coming home may prove more dangerous than the war itself.
Genre: Western
When Confederate veteran Elias Burrell returns to East Texas after four years of war, he expects hardship. What he finds is something far worse. The family ranch lies in ruins, his brother rests beneath a lonely grave behind the burned remains of the homestead, and a powerful banker named Silas Quade has used occupation politics, manipulated tax records, and bought officials to seize everything the Burrell family once owned. Only his sister Delia remains, trapped inside Quade’s world and forced to play a dangerous game to stay alive.
Determined to uncover the truth, Elias begins pulling at the threads holding Quade’s empire together. What he discovers is a network of corruption stretching from county offices to military authorities, supported by hired enforcers who have spent years intimidating anyone brave enough to resist. With every answer comes another enemy, and every step toward justice carries the risk of a shallow grave somewhere beneath the East Texas pines.
Yet Delia has not spent those years waiting to be rescued. Hidden inside Quade’s estate are documents capable of exposing the scheme that destroyed the Slash B Ranch, and she has quietly gathered information while surviving under the roof of the man responsible. Together, brother and sister find themselves fighting a battle that cannot be won by gunfire alone, because the most dangerous weapon in Quade’s possession is not his hired muscle but the appearance of legitimacy.
Rich with frontier action, political intrigue, family loyalty, and hard-earned vengeance, Blood Reunion is a powerful Reconstruction-era Western where justice must be fought for on every front, and where coming home may prove more dangerous than the war itself.
Genre: Western
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