When Genoa farmer Orrin Hickman decides to resurrect the Mormon militia group the Danites to settle some long-standing accounts, an old curse threatens fire and floods on the people of northern Nevada. Ex-priest and Pinkerton Detective, W. W. Ronin finds his heart broken and his hands full and guns blazing as a returning husband complicates his personal life and prison-breaking felons join the “rising tide” of Latter Day Saint hit men in the fifth of the W. W. Ronin adventures, Home Means Nevada. Home Means Nevada defines place-based fiction, where real people and real places become the setting for hauntingly real human adventures. Home Means Nevada takes place in Carson City, Genoa and Gardnerville, Nevada, and tells the true story of what happens when religious dreams meet present-day realities among Nevada’s earliest settlers. "Gregg Edwards Townsley knows Nevada like no one else. His latest installment of the adventures of W. W. Ronin is his best work yet. Captivating and engaging from cover to cover ... superb writing about one of America's greatest eras." Tom Bleecker, Hollywood screenwriter, publisher, and author of The Bruce Lee Story , Unsettled Matters, Tea Money and Jolanta. "A western novel with the twists, turns and pathos of fine noir detective fare. Home Means Nevada demonstrates Townsley's knowledge and love of Nevada, firearms, moral quandaries, and the questions that drive all men to chase their dreams and demons to every corner of the world. His best work so far." Jason Brick, author of Mastering the Business of Writing , The Nine Habits of Highly Profitable Writing and the Farcas Foxtrot series. " Home Means Nevada... is a western told in the skillful manner of the old masters like Zane Grey and Louis L'Amour. Townsley is a master wordsmith and his work comes alive with action and suspense. The book is well worth reading." W.R. Benton, best-selling Western novelist, author of War Paint, Missouri In Flames and the Fall of America series. "Townsley brings the old west to life with characters that are both interesting and unforgettable. The landscape is rich, the dialogue entertaining, and the settings impeccably researched." April Aasheim, author of The Universe Is A Very Big Place and The Daughters of Dark Root series. It was a pleasure to write this fifth book, in the W. W. Ronin series of Westerns. Ten years in Nevada was not enough, in my book. I raised my kids there, in the mid-eighties to earlier nineties, as pastor and head of staff of the First Presbyterian Church in Carson City. My heart is still there, amidst the sage and towering pines... Gregg Edwards Townsley is a reflective, free-thinking ex-pastor, martial artist, writer and Western Fast Draw enthusiast living in St. Helens, Oregon. No stranger to the places his Western characters inhabit--Reno, Carson City, Virginia City and Lake Tahoe--he raised his children in northern Nevada, from 1984 through 1993, while serving as pastor and head of staff of the First Presbyterian Church in Carson City. Prior to living in Nevada, he made his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Penns Grove, New Jersey, "a veritable fountain," he says, of people and places he likes to visit in his Tommy Valentine, PI series of short stories. Townsley is a member of the Western Writers of America.