The Marshal's Shadow: A Western Justice Series (Red Diablo Book 2)

The account is closed. The man is dead. The story is in the newspapers. So why can't Eli Kane stop riding? The killing of Corazon ended one thing and started another. The Whitmore conspiracy is in federal court, the newspapers are running the story, and for the first time in a year, Eli has no immediate target. No hunt. No name to find. Just the territory. And what the territory needs. A family in Arizona territory has been fighting a fraudulent land survey for three years, losing everything to a company with better lawyers. A retired federal investigator in Redrock has files on two more situations, each one a variation on the same pattern: powerful interests, legal manipulation, ordinary people with no mechanism to fight back. Eli Kane spent a year learning how to dismantle one of those operations. Now he's deciding whether to do it again. And again. And whether one man with a horse and a notebook is enough - or whether what the territory actually needs is something permanent. THE MARSHAL'S SHADOW is Book 2 in the RED DIABLO series - a Western justice saga that follows one man's evolution from a personal reckoning to something larger. For readers who want their Westerns morally complex, their heroes complicated, and their justice hard-won. The series continues in RED DIABLO: DUST AND BONE. Start the series with RED DIABLO: BLOOD ON THE PRAIRIE (Book 1).