Some are taken for profit. Others, for power. All must fight to survive. By 1845, the Yellowstone Valley was no stranger to violence. But when slavers cross into sacred lands, they stir a fury they can’t outrun. Money Penny is gone—snatched alongside a young Crow girl. The compound reels, but no one takes it harder than Marshal Walker and his Crow wife, Bar-Chee. The boy they adopted is headed for Fort Boise, bound in chains with three wagons full of valley Indians—sold off to fight in a war not their own. Levi Johnson rides west with Captain Will Forrester, chasing a trail cold with danger. But time is running out, and Marshal Walker refuses to wait any longer. He rides out, heartsick and angry, toward a reckoning no father should ever have to face. Inside the prison wagons, Money and the girl know what’s coming—and what must be done. In the shadow of a brutal fate, they hatch a desperate plan. One chance. No guarantees. But freedom is worth the risk. In the wilds of the West, there are no promises—only the strength to fight and the will to escape.
Author
Ash Lingam is an Amazon Best Selling Author. He has written over one hundred novels and short stories in the Western genre. He has published nine series about the Texas Rangers, US Marshals, and Bounty Hunters, and his new additions to the Frontier & Pioneer Western Fiction—the Mountain Men series. Ash was born on a ranch in the Midwestern United States. It was during a time when Westerns were magical both at the movies and on television. As a boy, he collected Indian arrowheads in the fields and rode his horse, Sugar, in the woods as he played cowboys and Indians. From age twelve, he hunted to put food on the family table when his grandpa, Pop, gave him his first double-barrel shotgun—at eight taught him how to trap in our ponds and the creeks at the end of our property. Growing up in the country with horses and guns made the transition to an author of the Old West an effortless journey. Some say Ash Lingam is the fastest writer in the West. Ash says; When inspiration hits me, from when I open my eyes in the morning until I fall asleep at night, I let my fingers dance across the keyboards, anxious to see what will happen next in the story in my mind’s eye. Ash Lingam
