Blood Legacy from Rat Hell — Tony Masero

In the year of 1876, Boston attorney Zack Endeavor seems set for life. He has a beautiful heiress as his fiancé and a blossoming new law practice in the growing prosperity of the city. Everything holds promise for him amidst the burgeoning times that Mark Twain described as ‘the Gilded Age'.

It all changes when a mysterious armed visitor comes calling. There are things Zack would rather forget in his past but his caller sets him off on a trip that forces him down the dark road of those memories.

He must leave the safe comforts of Boston and travel to the harsher environs of the wild frontier. There, only in an impregnable redoubt set in the heart of Texas cow-country will Zack find any resolution. But it's a risky journey and even the help of a tough gunman and his partners will not keep the dangers at bay. Every step of the way Zack faces murderous menace from an unseen enemy. It is an enemy so secret and powerful that it threatens to overthrow the pillars of government and strike at the very heart of democracy.

Zack must rediscover old skills and resurrect the hardest repressed part of his soul if he is to survive and save the woman he loves.