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The Fifth Ace

Isabel Ostrander

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The Fifth Ace

Isabel Ostrander

Kearn Thode rides into Limasito, Mexico, chasing the promise of the oil boom, but what he finds is a town where fortune and danger run as thick as the black gold beneath the desert. He's a young engineer from somewhere else, and everything here is foreign: the heat, the gamble of striking it rich, the unspoken rules of a frontier community where law is loose and stakes are high. Then there's Billie, daughter of the gambler known as Gentleman Geoff, confident and captivating, untouched by the roughness around her yet fully of it. Their connection pulls Kearn deeper into Limasito's world of gambling halls and local lore, toward the mystery of Lost Souls' Pool and the growing threat of El Negrito. This is a story about what happens when ambition meets the unknown, when a stranger arrives in a place that doesn't welcome strangers easily, and when love and duty collide in a town where everything, oil, survival, the next breath, feels uncertain.