The Ironwood Bloom
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerWesternsGeneral Fiction
Publisher: David Siler
Published: Dec 16 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.44
Height: 0.39 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
For ten years, Cora Selene, scarred by a brutal past, has outrun the legend of The Cleaner. Her silence is her shield, and her solitude is her penance. All she wants is to be left alone, miles from the memory of the life she destroyed.
But when she takes a small job defending the dying desert town of Ironwood from the ruthless land baron Elias Thorne, she is drawn into a war waged not with bullets, but with stolen deeds and corporate corruption. The prize is the town's last, precious drop of water.
Paired with Liam Rourke, a quiet engineer who sees the woman beneath the scar, Cora must exchange her silver gun for strategy. They rely on his precision and the fierce loyalty of the girl she is sworn to protect. Together, they manage to outwit Thorne at every turn, trading shots of violence for shots of law.
But Thorne is not interested in water alone; he wants to destroy the Cleaner. When he exposes Cora's infamous past, she is left with an impossible choice: run one last time and save herself, or surrender her hard-won freedom to the federal law in a final, devastating act of penance to save the home she never intended to find.
In the heat of the desert, sometimes the heaviest price is the one that buys you a future.
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