The Guardian

Clay Boone has survived war, bloodshed, and the unforgiving frontier.

Born in the shadow of Texas’s Franklin Mountains, Clay has been a soldier, cowboy, fast gun, marshal, miner and army scout. He has learned that survival often depends on the man holding the gun. Then, at a lonely stage station, he meets Helen Carter, who has journeyed west to claim the ranch her father left her in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley.

She expects a new beginning, but instead finds herself marked for death. Jace Cross has discovered silver on her land and intends to take it by any means necessary. What Jace Cross does not expect is Clay Boone.

To get her safely to the San Pedro Valley, Clay will have to call upon every hard-earned skill the frontier has taught him, as one determined woman and one deadly gunfighter ride toward an uncertain future.

Clay Boone has spent his life surviving alone. Now he has something worth fighting for. But will this fight be his last?