Joe and Kate find two young children who were lost in the mountains. The mother of the children is dead, and the father is outlaw Ripper Connor, who leads a gang of murderers and robbers who are wanted by the law from Texas to Montana. When Collins learns where his children are, he will stop at nothing to reclaim them, even if it means burning the town of Bow River and killing everyone there. But Joe intends to stop him, aided by a local priest with a gunfighter past, and a mysterious man who seems to have no past at all. Has Collins met his match? Brad Dennison was born in rural New England and grew up reading Louis L'Amour, Luke Short, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., and even Edgar Rice Burroughs. He fell in love with the Old West at a very young age, beginning with movies and TV series like Gunsmoke and Bonanza and later expanded to western novels, which led to his study of Western history. He doesn't write about the old west as much as he writes about what it might have felt like to be there. He is a member of the Western Writers of America.