Echoes of Santa Sombra: The Ledger Dust Saga - Book 2

New Mexico Territory, 1868.A burned stock pen. Two dead hands. A stolen herd driven into broken country. On paper, the crime is simple enough to pay for. On the ground, nothing about it reads clean.Mateo "Pancho" Álvarez follows the sign first, trusting dust, stone, hoofprint, and silence more than any sheriff's notice. Jack Holland follows the paper, a black-coated bounty hunter with a soldier's bearing and a cold eye for warrants, debt, and blood.Their trails cross in the canyons, where rustlers, claim jumpers, contractors, and worse men are already moving through the smoke. What begins as a hunt for stolen cattle becomes something darker: false blame, buried violence, and old grief carried by men who know too well what law can hide.To finish the work, Pancho and Jack must ride the same road.But neither man trusts easily.And the dust remembers more than either one expects.