The last outlaw

Jake Harkner was once an infamous outlaw. Now the old Wild West is gone, and he lives on a Colorado ranch with his family, his guns hung up for good. He has found a measure of peace there.

His wife Miranda has always been his strength, but dark memories haunt her. Jake doubts he can save her this time. He can only promise to stay at her side.

Peace does not last. A past built on violence pulls Jake into a rescue he cannot turn down: a young girl in Mexico faces a dreadful fate, and he rides south to reach her.

That means leaving Miranda behind once more. She fears the man she loves above all else will die the way he has always lived, by the gun. The book is a Western about an aging gunman, and it turns on whether Jake can ride out of his old life a second time.