The tenth book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray! Caleb receives a letter from a stranger. Andrew Langhorne Jefferson, lawyer turned mountain man, is interested in preserving mountain man culture in the fact of the increased settlement of the west and the encroachment of technological progress. Jefferson calls a rendezvous and invites Caleb to come. Skeptical of Jefferson’s motives, Caleb nevertheless bundles up his household and he and his wife, Flora, accompanied by Snuffy, the brown bear they adopted as a cub, and they make the trek to Aspen Valley, the site of the rendezvous. What Caleb fears will be a boring, noneventful trip turns to madness when a disagreement over a woman ends up with one of the rivals murdered in his tent. The killing threatens to disrupt the rendezvous, so Jefferson urges Caleb to intervene and find the killer, a complicated mission in a gathering of rugged individualists who pride themselves on not bowing to outside authority. Grab your copy today!