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Holdfast
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 7 2026
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
HOLDFAST
The grass failed before the calendar said it should. The note was due before first freeze. The Company had already run wire over the water.
On a thin fork of the Canadian, Calder Quinn is holding a ranch that no longer has anyone left to hold it for. Two boards stand on the rise. A bank in Tascosa wants twenty-two hundred dollars. A cream-colored letter from Chicago wants the rest.
Then a remuda comes in off the east trail.
Eliza Ward is not passing through. She has thirty-two horses, a deed that can be made to vanish, and a book that does not lie to buyers. She will not winter as a guest. She will not sell the graves. She will not let a man named Voss turn a kitchen into a rented stove.
What follows is a gather, a river that collects, a sale that is not a victory, and a winter the geese already promised. Partnership is written on a page and tested in weather. A segundo who remembers sheep ground will not watch the bend become a line on a plat. A boy who lied about his age will learn the difference between a legend and a job. And the last open range will not end in a speech. It will end in paper, ice, and whoever is still standing when the date arrives.
Holdfast is a literary Western about land, debt, and the people who refuse to become a story told in someone else's office.
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