Wolf Breed

The settlement gathers for its annual celebration, but under the festive lights, something dangerous is stirring. Dave Drennen, called "No-Luck" by men who fear what bad luck might mean, watches from the margins. He carries a weight the others sense but can't name. When Ramon Garcia walks through the door, charming and careless, he upsets everything: the careful balance of the settlement, the unspoken claims, the old rivalries waiting for a spark. Ernestine Dumont finds herself caught between them, though this story isn't really about her choice. It's about what happens when men with nothing left to lose collide in a place where the law is just another voice arguing at the table. Gregory writes with a journalist's eye for the details that matter, the way cards fall, the weight of weather, the precise angle of a man's stance when he knows he's being watched. The frontier wasn't all gunfights and galloping horses; it was also this: a room full of men measuring each other, waiting for someone to make the first move.