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Forty Feet West is the first book in the Boundary Man Series — quiet historical thrillers set in the American territorial West. Ward Colton is a land commissioner who investigates survey fraud: boundary lines adjusted by fractions of a chain, deeds corrected in ways that redirect water rights and strip productive farmland from settlers who trusted the record. The prose is measured, deliberate, and character-driven, with long investigative passages, period dialogue, and a methodical protagonist who works by reading documents and asking the right questions in the right order.

A lawman hunts his brother through a killing winter. But what he finds isn’t the man he remembers. It’s the truth. After a deadly stagecoach robbery leaves four men dead, Sheriff Elias Kane tracks the outlaw responsible into the high country—only to discover the fugitive is his estranged brother, Harlan. Stranded by a violent storm and bound together by survival, the two men are forced into an uneasy alliance. But as they descend from the mountain, the conflict shifts—from survival… to something far more dangerous.

A document can change everything. Even when it shouldn't. When a corrected survey deed strips three families of their water rights, the filing looks clean. Stamped. Recorded. Final. But Ruth Cabel knows something is wrong. So she seeks out Corbin Vale—a retired county land recorder who spent thirty-one years reading the kind of documents most men never question.

When a stranger arrives in a quiet frontier town, he intends to pass through unnoticed. Instead, he finds himself standing between a frightened boy, a borrowed rifle, and a secret powerful men cannot afford to let survive the night.