Spur Award - Winning Author

Herschel Baker left his life as a rancher to become sheriff of Yellowstone County, Montana. Only weeks into the job, he's about to find out what it means to bring the law to a lawless land...

It's up to Herschel to stop all forms of criminal­ity—including the old vigilante justice that once ran the town. When the cowboy Billy Hanks is found hanging from a tree with the label HOSS STEELER pinned to his chest, the culprits must be caught whether or not the accusation is true.

With nothing to go on but a dead body, a mis­spelled note, and a wounded horse, Herschel re­fuses to look the other way. Someone's going to pay for this dirty deed. Someone found guilty by the right and proper letter of the law...