Love puts a revenge-seeking former lawman on a path
to redemption.
That's the theme of The Tithing Herd, my latest
Western scheduled for release on Tuesday, July 25 by Sundown Press.
The Tithing Herd is set in Mormon country in New
Mexico in the 1890s.
On the trail of the outlaw known as Spanish who
murdered his brother, Luther 'Lute' Donnelly stumbles upon young Tom Baskin who
has been duped by the outlaw band and falsely accused of rustling. The unlikely pair unite and their travels
bring them to Cedar Flats, a Mormon village, and Serene McCullough, the widow
Donnelly had planned to marry before his life was turned upside down by the
bandits.
Cash-strapped Mormons have assembled a herd of
cattle to pay their tithe to the church. Serene prevails upon Lute to help her
son take the herd to market. Reluctantly, he agrees.
Lute's desire for vengeance is replaced by another
more important goal when Spanish and his gang kidnap Serene and hold her ransom
for the cattle, pitting him and Tom against dangerous odds in a desperate quest
to save the woman he loves.
An electronic version of The Tithing Herd was
originally published several years ago by the Western Online Press, which has
now gone defunct. I'm happy Sundown Press found this story of action, suspense
and romance worthy of a new life.
The book will be up for pre-sale of the Kindle
version a few days before the release date.
