Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an
unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post-Civil War frontier seeking
redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New York
Times bestselling author of News of the World.
Union soldier John Chenneville suffered a traumatic head wound in
battle. His recovery took the better part of a year as he struggled to
regain his senses and mobility. By the time he returned home, the Civil
War was over, but tragedy awaited. John's beloved sister and her family
had been brutally murdered.
Their killer goes by many names. He fought for the North in the late
unpleasantness, and wore a badge in the name of the law. But the man
John knows as A. J. Dodd is little more than a rabid animal,
slaughtering without reason or remorse, needing to be put down.
Traveling through the unforgiving landscape of a shattered nation in the
midst of Reconstruction, John braves winter storms and confronts
desperate people in pursuit of his quarry. Untethered, single-minded in
purpose, he will not be deterred. Not by the U.S. Marshal who threatens
to arrest him for murder should he succeed. And not by Victoria Reavis,
the telegraphist aiding him in his death-driven quest, yet hoping he'll
choose to embrace a life with her instead.
And as he trails Dodd deep into Texas, John accepts that this final
reckoning between them may cost him more than all he's already lost...
