Raised by a kindhearted army scout named Gaffrey, orphaned Laredo never knew much about his parents' deaths. But when Gaffrey is shot while he and the now grown Laredo are on a scouting mission, he decides he can't take his secret to the grave-and tells Laredo about the Tysons.
Laredo's father, Scott Tyson, was a rancher who'd fled to Texas with his wife. Back in Tennessee, he had killed a member of the Harrington family, and its clan members eventually found the Tysons and murdered them-except Laredo, who had been hidden in the root cellar. That's where Gaffrey had found him.
Gaffrey survives his gunshot wound. Now armed with new knowledge, Laredo vows to avenge his parents. The two men head to Colorado, where the Harringtons have become even stronger than before.
The Harrington family has turned to ranching, amassing vast land tracts and eyeing one rival ranch in particular: the spread owned by the Coles. After murdering Mr. Cole, the Harringtons try to pressure his daughter, Leslie, into marrying Bobby Harrington.
With Laredo in town, however, the Harringtons' greed is thwarted. But the family is powerful-and nothing short of a no-holds-barred showdown will stop them.
About the Author: Raised on the cattle ranches of Northern California, Lee Martin is a full-time writer whose focus is western novels and screenplays. Martin has sold forty-three short stories and twenty-one novels, among them The Grant Conspiracy and The Last Wild Ride, both highly praised in True West Magazine.
Shadow on the Mesa, a film based on one of Martin's novels, was Hallmark Movie Channel's second-highest-rated and second-most-viewed original movie upon its premiere in 2013. Martin currently has several additional screenplays under option with producers.
