The Sonoran Desert has claimed many lives. Desperate to get to California before the little money they have runs out, the Wheatley family brave the Badlands and vanish in the dust. Army scout John Best takes it upon himself to go and find them - but he's too late to save them all. The parents have been brutally murdered by Apaches and Best only finds teenage Lucien alive - while the body of his beautiful sister, Emma, is missing. Has she escaped or has she been captured by the ruthless Apaches? Together Lucien and Best set out to find and rescue her. But the trail is dangerous and they soon realise that they have more than one enemy in the desert. Best and Lucien have no one to depend on but themselves. Can they make it out alive and rescue Emma Wheatley before it's too late? Or will she be one more victim of the harsh desert? Fight or Die is a thrilling western novel, which provides a vivid and unsparing portrait of life on the Western frontier. ‘A Classic return to the Western frontier’ - Robert Foster, acclaimed author of The Lunar Code Christopher Kenworthy was a journalist and novelist. His other Westerns include Apache Country and Shoot to Kill, and he has also written two naval fiction series - the John Paul Jones adventures and the In the Dark of the Moon saga.