CWestWesterns
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Beneath bitter skies, redemption rides with the restless.
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1863
Fresh from the war and nursing a wound that won't heal, Jesse Dunning rides home to Texas - only to find his town burned to cinders and his family gone. His mother's grave is fresh, his brother Cole's is missing, and that's enough to send Jesse back into the wild with nothing but a horse, a bad shoulder, and a promise.
When a fever nearly kills him in a border town, he's saved by Emmaline McGraw - a sharp-tongued, soft-hearted woman with her own ghosts and a brother out west. Together, they set out across a country, still bleeding from war, chasing rumors, wagon trails, and hope through dust and danger.
From the ashes of Texas to the mountains of Oregon, Jesse's search for his brother becomes something more - a fight to outrun his past, a test of the man he's becoming, and a reckoning with the love he swore he'd never want again.
Under bitter skies, every mile brings him closer to the truth: some things lost can still be found - if a man's willing to bleed for them.