Bitter Blood — Scott Siegel

Riding shotgun for Lost Creek’s stage line, Warfield Hunter couldn’t be careful enough. The empty dirt roads were full of plenty of dust, plenty of strangers, and plenty of trouble.A lot of gunslingers felt they’d been double-crossed by the famous sharpshooter. Banding together, they schemed to ride into Lost Creek and avenge themselves on Hunter. The outlaw grapevine was swifter than Mr. Morse’s telegraph and a couple of bandits who were after Warhunter’s woman hooked into the plan.There was no better way into town than the stage, and there was no better way to settle the score than to have shotgun Warhunter protect the passage of the very men who sought to kill him ...