Where The Line Runs
1880s Texas Hill Country. Surveyor Jonas Hale rides into a bitter land dispute expecting to measure acreage, set corners, and be done with it. Instead, he finds three claims laid over the same ground: a hard cattleman who means to keep what he has taken, a widow and her son who cannot afford to lose one more thing, and a preacher who believes the land belongs to God before it belongs to any man.
At stake is more than property. A spring, a stand of live oaks, and a small burial patch have made the tract into something none of them will surrender lightly.
As Jonas stretches his chain and drives his stakes, the work turns from measurement into judgment. Old griefs rise. Faith hardens. Quiet pressure becomes open threat. And Jonas begins to understand the truth at the heart of the country around him: lines do not simply mark the world. They make it.
WHERE THE LINE RUNS is a literary western about land, conscience, violence, and the cost of deciding what belongs to whom.
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