Long Ride for Justice - eBook

He left the West behind. The West wasn’t done with him.



Tom Callahan has spent ten hard years burying the man he used to be. Once, out on the cattle trails, they called him Red Tom—a name spoken with equal parts fear and respect. Now he keeps accounts in smoky Chicago, owns a modest house, and wakes beside a woman who’s never seen him wear a gun.

Then a letter arrives from Wyoming Territory.

His eldest son, Jamie, is dead. A “riding accident” near a scrub town called Dry Creek. No witnesses. A quick report. A clean word on a dirty piece of land.

Jamie went west to do what his father never did—build something honest. He bought the Circle-C ranch on Willow Creek, stood up to cattle baron Ephraim Kincaid over land and water, and made himself a few quiet enemies along the valley. Now his widow is alone on a vulnerable spread, and the men who sleep easier with Jamie in the ground are already circling.

Tom straps on the old gun belt he swore he’d never wear again and boards a one-way train. In Dry Creek he finds a tired sheriff who wrote “accident” on the report because he had nothing he could prove, a town split between fear and greed, and a valley ready to explode over grass and water rights.

To learn the truth about his son’s death, Tom will have to decide how much of Red Tom he’s willing to drag back from the grave—and how many more graves he’s willing to fill along the way.

Long Ride for Justice is a gritty, character-driven western of land wars, old sins, and a father’s last chance to put something right on the frontier. Perfect for readers who love stubborn men, wide skies, and stories where justice doesn’t come cheap.