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The Dead Don't Own Land
Paperback
Series: The Carrion County Trilogy, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerWesternsHistorical Fiction
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Publisher: Michael Novian
Pages: 730
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A hanged man. A stolen ledger. A county built on blood.
Jack Creed returns to Carrion County too late to save his younger brother.
Ben has already been hanged for murdering a railroad surveyor, and his body has been left swinging as a warning. The evidence against him looks damning. But Sarah, Ben's widow, knows the truth.
Ben was guilty of plenty. Just not murder.
Before his death, Ben stole records exposing how Carrion County's most powerful men have taken land through forged deeds, false debts, fire, and blood. Those records could clear his name and destroy the men who control the bank, the court, and every armed rider between town and the railroad.
Now the papers are missing, Sarah and her son are in danger, and Jack is the only man willing to go after them.
To uncover the truth, Jack must face the county he abandoned and the family he left behind. But the deeper he digs, the harder the truth becomes to carry. Ben was not only a victim. He helped build the machine that eventually killed him.
In Carrion County, the law belongs to the highest bidder, guilt follows the living, and land belongs to whoever survives long enough to prove it.
The Dead Don't Own Land is Book One of The Carrion County Trilogy, a gritty dark Western about stolen land, corrupt power, family, guilt, and the consequences of coming home too late.
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