Redemption Flats

REDEMPTION FLATS

Book One of The Stone County Drifter

by Mark Collins

He rode in looking for nothing but a place to disappear. He found a town worth staying for - and a fight worth dying for.

Cole Danner has spent six years running from a single terrible mistake - an innocent man's death that no amount of distance has ever managed to outride. When he drifts into Redemption Flats looking for nothing more than a quiet place to pass through, he finds a town strangled by fear, its ranchers bled dry by a cattle baron who has learned that paper and patience can conquer a county more thoroughly than any gun.

Silas Kessler wants Cole gone, bought off, or broken - and sends his enforcer, a cold-eyed gunman with a grudge older than either man realizes, to make sure of it. Cole finds unlikely allies in Dellah Voss, the widowed saloon-keeper who has refused to sell for three long years, a weary sheriff who has forgotten what his badge is for, and a stubborn old rancher who won't surrender the land his father bled to build.

As the noose tightens and the violence turns personal, Cole must decide whether the debt he carries is best paid by running - or by finally standing his ground. REDEMPTION FLATS is a gripping, character-driven Western about guilt, courage, and the slow, hard-won work of a community remembering it was never as powerless as it believed.

Perfect for readers who love:

• A haunted gunfighter with a debt he can never fully repay

• A saloon-keeper widow who has held her ground alone for three years

• A cattle baron whose patience is more dangerous than his gun

• A county on the edge of losing everything it has left

Book One of The Stone County Drifter series.