Alcatraz

The American West, raw and luminous. A magnificent stallion broken by cruelty. A woman fighting to save her family's legacy. This is the story of Alcatraz, and it burns with the kind of passion that made Max Brand one of the most celebrated writers of his era. Marianne Jordan rides into a horse market seeking salvation for her struggling ranch, and there she finds him: a once-majestic horse reduced to a shadow, beaten down by a man named Manuel Cordova. But when Alcatraz looks at his tormentor, what Marianne sees is not submission but fury. That spark of defiance ignites something in her. Here is a creature that refuses to be destroyed, and she recognizes herself in him. The bond between woman and horse becomes the heart of a novel that explores what it means to be tamed versus what it means to be free. Brand writes with mythic intensity about the American West, about the wild spirits that yearn for liberation. This is a book for readers who believe that some creatures are born unconquerable.