The Rancher: A Classic Western Series - Paperback

BLOOD RUNS COLD ON THE MONTANA FRONTIER.

Anders Nordic and his loyal collie, Finn, are drifting north, trying to outrun the blood they've spilled-and the men who want them dead. They find brief shelter in the vast, wind-scoured plains of Montana Territory, where Nordic takes work as a stagecoach guard for a mining company hauling payroll through outlaw country.

But peace is short-lived.

A gang of cutthroat robbers, led by a vengeful ex-cavalryman with a score to settle, is targeting the stage line-and they're not just after gold. They want Nordic. Alive, if possible. Dead, if not.

As ambushes mount and bodies fall, Nordic is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse across the frozen prairie. When a young orphan girl is caught in the crossfire, Nordic must choose: leave her behind to save himself, or risk everything for a child he never meant to protect.

Snow falls. Gunsmoke rises. And the hunter becomes the hunted.

Will Nordic's guns be fast enough to stop the bloodshed-or is this the end of the trail for him and Finn?