A Foot Above Hell

Dan Shale is a rough breed among rough breeds. Even after he's staggered away from the bloody scene in the desert and into the heart of trouble, he doesn't buckle. Through brushes with death, romance-gunplay, love, and the search for gold, he carries on.

Shale rides out across a landscape of juniper and charit cup and lodgepole pine, tracking trouble off the beaten trail into the rough terrain of secret identities and hidden motives. His search for answers leads him to a snow-filled basin high in the Rockies, where rawboned adversaries are holed up in a remote cabin. Who are these brutal men? Is Fran their captive or accomplice? And what about the old prospector and the rumors of gold?