Apostle's Creede: Silver Lining On A Blood Moon
Cord McBride knows about survival. Five years after being knocked unconscious at the Battle of Little Bighorn-and living to face an inquiry that branded him a coward-he's carved out a quiet existence as a guide through Colorado's mining country. He doesn't look for trouble. But in the summer of 1881, trouble finds him anyway.
When Chicago businessman Samuel Morrison hires Cord to escort his party from Dodge City to the silver boomtown of Creede, it seems like easy money. The pay is good, the route is familiar, and Morrison's daughter Catherine is as intelligent as she is beautiful. But from the moment they leave Kansas, nothing about this journey feels right.
Morrison watches everyone like a man expecting betrayal. His associate Fielding is terrified of somethingor someone.
As they climb into the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and cross Ute territory, the truth begins to emerge: a railroad conspiracy to steal Native land worth millions, orchestrated through manipulation, fraud, and murder. Elena's brother was one of the victims. And Morrison isn't just a businessman-he's the architect of the whole deadly scheme.
Now Cord faces an impossible choice. His contract binds him to protect Morrison and his daughter. His conscience demands he expose the conspiracy. And Elena's quest for justice might destroy them all. With hired killers on their trail and evidence that could topple an empire, they flee into the high country.
When they deliver the surveyor's evidence to Federal Marshal Tom Pate in Pagosa Springs, Cord believes the worst is over. Instead, he learns Morrison has vanished from Creede in a staged abduction, taking Catherine with him. From the poker tables of Dodge City to the mining camps of Creede, from Ute war councils to the federal courts of Denver,
APOSTLE'S CREEDE delivers a sweeping tale of corruption and redemption in the American West. In a land where the only law is what a man can enforce with his gun, Cord McBride must choose between his contract and his conscience-and discover that the deadliest enemies are sometimes the ones riding beside you.
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