Blood and Whiskey

In the burned-out mining town of Redemption, a gunfighter with nothing left to lose finds one last reason to live.Jed Harker has been running from his past for ten years-ever since the fire that killed his wife and left him with scars no bullet could heal. When he rides into Redemption, Wyoming Territory, in 1872, he's looking for whiskey and oblivion. Instead, he finds Sheriff Thomas Brennan, a man who sees something worth saving beneath the blood-soaked reputation.What Jed doesn't tell anyone-not even Brennan, not even the woman he comes to love-is that the fire wasn't an accident. He lit it himself. Some sins don't wash away with whiskey. Some debts can only be paid in blood.But Redemption offers a different kind of payment.Sarah Brennan, the sheriff's daughter, sees past the gunfighter's hardened exterior. She's seen what violence does to men, and she's determined Jed won't become another corpse on her father's watch. What begins as protection slowly becomes something more-until Jed's past catches up with him in the form of a man who knows exactly what Jed did that night.Now Jed faces a choice: pick up his gun and become the killer he's been running from, or find another way to survive. In a territory where the law is what a man makes it, Jed discovers that redemption isn't about forgetting the past. It's about facing it-and choosing a different future.Blood and Whiskey is a Western that explores the cost of violence, the possibility of redemption, and what it means to build a life worth living in a world that only knows how to take them.

Pagina's: 191, Paperback, Independently published