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A Town Called Desperation
Paperback
RomanceWesternsGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Shane P Miller
Published: May 30 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Desperation has worn out eighteen lawmen by death, cowardice, corruption, or plain fear. When Josephine Cade rides in and takes the nineteenth badge, the town expects another body, another failure, or another fool to run. Instead, it gets a marshal who writes everything down, warns once by word, and refuses to waste powder proving she means it.
With the jail rotting, old warrants ignored, and Bell's Saloon feeding the town's violence, Josephine chooses Rafe Calder as her deputy-a rough, dangerous man with a crooked reputation, a blunt mouth, and sense enough to obey where it costs. Together they face hired gunmen, crooked merchants, jail breaks, burned records, public grief, and the truth behind Desperation's old arrangements.
But Josephine is not there to become another killer with a badge. She has already lived vengeance. Now she must prove law is heavier than blood-and that even a town called Desperation can learn manners if someone stands long enough to carry the rest of law.
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