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I read the first two lines of the letter again, just to make sure there was no mistake. "John," it said, "I need your help. Lucky has been lynched." She went on to explain what had happened , but all that mattered to me was this: my brother was dead and Maria had asked for me.
Nine years ago, John Thorton left Hope Valley. Nine years of drifting, trying to forget the ranch, the sawmill, and the only woman he ever loved. He'd left everything he valued with his younger brother, Lucky -- and now Lucky was dead.
But as John rides into Hope Valley, he heads straight into a rattler's nest of trouble. A conspiracy of silence surrounds his brother's death, and even old friends are afraid to talk. His youngest brother, Kit, is in jail, his sister-in-law is hiding out in the hills, and John is warned to get out of town as fast as he can. But that only makes him more determined to discover the truth about his brother's murder.
Filled with shoot-outs, romance, and colorful characters, this rollicking yarn of the wild Utah territory in the 1850s is written in the tradition of the best of Louis L'Amour and Zane Grey. Experience the days when the tide of civilization clashed with the lawless frontier...and vigilante justice masked terrorism and revenge.
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