Run For Your Life: A YA Western

By Ash Lingam

They've outrun the law before-but this time, death is riding hard behind.

John Washington-once John Noland-was enslaved and forced to ride with Quantrill's Raiders during the war. He didn't ask for that past, but it won't let go. Now he's wanted for murder, and the men coming for him don't care about justice...they want vengeance.

Jed Coal never chose to be a killer. Drafted into the Confederate Army, he was stolen by Quantrill and forged into a sharpshooter with no way out. But he's loyal to a fault, and he'll stand by John, no matter the cost.

Jodi Goodnight lost her family ranch and her place in the world. Branded an outlaw after defending her own dignity, she's been running ever since. Now she's found a kind of family in Jed and John, but that family is about to be torn apart.

When old war riders like Jesse and Frank James and the Younger brothers return to settle old debts, the fugitives are thrown into a violent whirlwind from Texas to the borderlands. The past is coming fast, and there's only one way to survive: run.

Can they outrun their pasts-or will it finally ride them down for good?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 196559607X
• ISBN13: 9781965596074
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Wise Wolf Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary