Good Men and True, and Hit the Line Hard

The frontier is closing, but some men still ride by their own code. Jeff Bransford is a cowhand with a quick wit and a quicker gun - a man who can talk his way past any trouble until trouble decides it wants a different conversation. When a casual visit to an El Paso law office explodes into violence, Bransford finds himself pulled into a conspiracy that reaches further than the dusty streets and rattlesnakes of the New Mexico territory. Now the man who just wanted to ride free must navigate deception, power struggles, and men who'd rather see him dead than answers given. Rhodes writes with the warmth of campfire stories and the edge of a straight razor - this is Western fiction that remembers the frontier was never just about land, but about the people too stubborn and alive to fit inside the rules.