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Keller Ward asked little from life. Honest work. A roof over his boys' heads. Enough peace to keep the past where it belonged. Then one son is murdered in a gold convoy ambush, and the other is left broken between life and death. Everyone in Calico Ridge knows who did it. Randall Vexler. Heir to a cattle fortune and nephew to the town marshal. When the courts turn their backs and Randall walks free, Keller decides to settle things himself. Soon men begin turning up dead. As fear spreads, Keller continues his silent war. A war against those who shattered his family. Only Tess Harlow, the undertaker's daughter, sees what remains beneath the violence. In a place that has always kept its distance from her, she recognizes Keller's loneliness before he can hide it. But vengeance always comes at a price. Randall strikes back at Keller's surviving son, at Tess, and at anyone caught near him. As blood soaks Calico Ridge, Keller must choose what matters more: revenge, or what's left of his soul. How much can a man destroy before he destroys himself? A standalone Historical Western Adventure by James Leonard. A Western Adventure of relentless action and hardship, threaded with Western Romance—readable in any order.