The Loner — J.A. Johnstone

In Utah the Loner finds religion -- behind the barrel of a gun…

SHOWER THE BRIDE WITH LEAD…

The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning. On his way across the wide, tall Utah territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding -- and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down. But there are two sides to every story -- and the ones you don't hear are the ones that can get you killed.

The runaway bride has a little history of her own. Soon, the Loner touches off a storm of unholy gunfire, drawing blood from an outlaw and a death sentence from a patriarch. Among murderers and Mormons, Bibles and bullets, the Loner finds himself riding to a wedding -- a ceremony he intends to crash with a vengeance…