New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Gunfight Jeff Guinn turns his eye for evocative detail and history to a sweeping novel of the Old West weaving a compelling tale of life in the Arizona Territory in 1872.
We've all got mistakes in our past we'd rather forget.
Cash McLendon has always had an instinct for self-preservation one that was honed by an impoverished childhood and life with an alcoholic father barely scraping by on the streets of Saint Louis in 1872. He's always had a knack for finding and capitalizing on the slightest opportunities choosing the path of financial security over happiness or real friends. He eventually builds himself up from a Saint Louis street urchin to the son-in-law and heir apparent to industrial mogul Rupert Douglass. Though it lacks passion his life seems securely set: a wife a career property standing.
But when tragedy strikes all of his plans and his entire future dissolve in an instant. McLendon's instinct for survival kicks in; he flees Saint Louis and Douglas assigns his enforcer an ominous skull-cracker with steel-toed boots to track him down.
With nothing to lose McLendon attempts to reconcile with an old flame-a woman he was nearly engaged to but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles. He heard through the grapevine that she and her father moved their dry-goods store out west to a speck-on-the-map mining town named Glorious in the Arizona Territory. There McLendon tries to win her back and in the process discovers a new way of life at the edge of the final American frontier. But he can't outrun his past forever. . . .
