The Wolves of Mercy

When a burned homestead is staged to look like a Keshai raid, a haunted frontier tracker and a fiercely independent horsewoman must expose a conspiracy linking the army, stolen land, and a coming railroad-before old hatred turns Mercy's End into a battlefield and the truth costs them everyone they love. Three bodies lie in the ashes.Black-feathered arrows say the Keshai did it.The dead say otherwise.When territorial investigator Silas Vale rides into Mercy's End, he finds a town already reaching for its rifles. The evidence seems obvious: murdered settlers, burned homesteads, and the unmistakable signs of a Keshai raid.But Silas has spent half his life reading the tracks men leave behind and these tracks are lying.The arrows were planted. The dead were shot first. Army horses crossed the killing ground.And someone desperately wants a war.To uncover the truth, Silas is forced into an uneasy alliance with Mara Vey, a hard-edged horse breeder with Keshai blood, an unforgiving memory, and more reason than most to distrust the man once known as the Pale Hound. But as murder leads to falsified surveys, stolen land, railroad money, and Fort Providence itself, the investigation begins tearing open wounds neither Silas nor Mara ever intended to revisit.Then Mara's own brother becomes tangled in the violence.And the man standing at the end of Silas's trail may be the one who taught him how to follow it.With settlers arming, soldiers advancing, and Bitter Creek one gunshot away from becoming a graveyard, Silas and Mara must decide how much they are willing to lose for a truth powerful men have already killed to bury.Because in Mercy's End, everyone remembers the dead.The dangerous part is remembering who put them there.