The Texas Hawks; or, The Strange Decoy

The Texas brush is no place for a man with secrets, but secrets are exactly what Fred Hawksley finds when a strange rider Materializes on the horizon - a woman dressed in men's clothes, fleeing somethingor someoneand leaving only questions in her dust. When she vanishes into the wilderness, Fred and his band of hunters, the Texas Hawks, pursue her into a labyrinth of deception where nothing is as it seems. The "strange decoy" of the title proves to be far more than a simple ruse: it's a thread that unravels a scheme involving stolen goods, betrayals among friends, and a game of cat and mouse played out across the open range. As the Hawks close in, they discover that the woman at the center of it all is both victim and weapon - and that the men hunting her will stop at nothing to claim their prize. This is frontier adventure stripped to its bones: lean, swift, and ruthless.