Widow’s War - C Lowry

WIDOW’S WAR

Two widows are at war. A town is caught in the middle. And someone is making a fortune from the bloodshed.

Muddy Gap is a town built on bad water, hard ground, and old grudges.

Abigail Boone owns the struggling Broken Spur ranch. Cordelia Cross rules the wealthy Iron K. For years, the two widows have fought over grazing land, cattle, water rights, money, and territory.

Now the feud is turning into a war.

When cattle are deliberately stampeded over a deadly limestone ridge and a town livery burns, former U.S. Marshal Harlan Wade knows something is wrong. The local sheriff is too frightened to investigate. Powerful ranchers are already reaching for their rifles. Hired guns are moving through the valley.

And somebody wants Harlan dead.

Forced to take a badge and become the law in a town that barely recognizes it, Harlan starts following the evidence. Tracks don’t lie. Neither does a burned building, a dead ranch hand, or a ledger full of numbers someone desperately wants hidden.

What he uncovers is bigger than a range war.

A railroad is coming.

The Bitter Creek draw contains the only reliable water source for miles, and the railroad is willing to pay a fortune for exclusive access. But it can’t buy contested land.

So someone has decided to make the two ranches destroy each other.

As violence spreads across Muddy Gap, Harlan must survive ambushes, hired killers, arson, cattle stampedes, gunfights, and a conspiracy designed to turn two powerful women against each other.

But the most dangerous player isn’t standing on either side of the ranch war.

She’s standing in the shadows.

And when Harlan discovers who has been manipulating the widows, stealing railroad money, and engineering the bloodshed, the entire conflict explodes into an all-out battle for survival.

WIDOW’S WAR is a fast-paced Western thriller packed with Old West action, gunslingers, U.S. Marshals, cattle ranches, range wars, outlaw conspiracies, railroad corruption, water rights, hired guns, frontier justice, shootouts, ambushes, betrayal, and hard-edged Western suspense.

If you love gritty Western adventures, action-packed cowboy fiction, ruthless villains, strong frontier women, lawmen, ranch wars, Western mysteries, and cinematic Wild West gunfights, saddle up for WIDOW’S WAR.

The range war is only the beginning.