The Standing Ground

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.

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.

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.