The Devil's Brand: Number One of The Rider Series

In the winter of 1865, five Confederate deserters, starving and furious over the course of the war, ride along the Kansas-Missouri border on a violent spree. They target a family of abolitionists who are sheltering escaped enslaved people. Afterward, Ethan Brody returns from the fighting to find his home and loved ones destroyed. Consumed by a need for vengeance, he hunts the gang, only to watch them slip away.

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Disillusioned, Ethan turns to bounty hunting, resolved never again to let a killer escape justice. Along the way, a figure known as the Rider emerges. Decades later, in 1894, Oliver Kingston Dukes arrives in the town of Adobe Wells and is drawn into its fight against the powerful Katy brothers. The Rider joins him and the townspeople in pursuit of the bandit Hector Salazar, and in doing so may find his own redemption.

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