Kidnapped allies. A stagecoach ambush. And a boy too stubborn to quit... Fourteen-year-old Benjie Willow is barely catching his breath after surviving the Red River massacre. Now recovering in El Paso alongside the grizzled frontiersman Malvo Tanner and the quiet Choctaw scout Chito-Oche, he’s finally found a glimmer of stability—until the frontier snatches it away again. When the trio signs on as guards for a Butterfield Overland Stage hauling silver through outlaw country, they know the risks. But nothing prepares Benjie for the ambush that follows—gunfire in the dust, comrades captured, and a bounty on their heads. Benjie is the only one left free. And he’s the only one who knows what really happened. Now, with nothing but his instincts, a borrowed rifle, and a fierce determination not to lose the only family he has left, Benjie must grow up fast. In a world where coming-of-age means life or death, he’s about to learn what it truly costs to stand alone. Will Benjie outwit the men who took everything—or die trying to get it back? Perfect for fans of Historical Action & Adventure, frontier survival stories, and gritty YA heroes who fight for justice at the edge of the map. Order your copy of Stagecoach today and ride into the next chapter of Benjie Willow’s unforgettable journey.
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
