Black Wind Pass — Rusty Davis

Emotions run high in Wyoming's Buffalo Horn Valley, wheredreams of a ranching empire collide with fierce passions to fight back nomatter what the cost. Rory Carrick left the valley in 1861 to fight the CivilWar. The place he returns to 10 years later - with scars from the war that havehealed and others that have not -- is not the one he left. Empire-builderJackson Jones is pushing anyone and everyone aside to build the biggest ranch thevalley has ever known, in rivalry with the sly and crafty Francis Oliver.Defying the two greedy jaws closing down on the ranch she will defend to thelast, Rebecca Lewis and her aunt are scrapping to survive. Carrick, thrown intothe maelstrom of passions over the land, challenges the powerful and defies theodds. Together, Carrick and Rebecca challenge the powerful as they stand tallagainst big ranches and the wild elements of the range. In a web of old friendsand new enemies, in a valley where a murderer on the loose threatens to destroyeverything Carrick and Rebecca are fighting for, Carrick finds that trackingdown a killer is not just about justice, it is a game of life and death wherethe brave must not only defeat the bullies who stomp everyone in sight, butalso the crafty and cunning who do their best shooting when no one is looking.