Sometimes the ones cast aside become the ones who stand the tallest.
Father Graham Cavendish never chose the collar. As the third son of an English duke, his father forced him into the priesthood, where he was eventually cast away after too many scandals. Now exiled to the dusty frontier town of Golden City, Colorado, he’s expected to build a church, keep quiet, and stay out of trouble.
But Golden City has other plans.
An abandoned schoolhouse becomes his makeshift chapel. A one-legged ex-cavalryman named Cotton becomes his closest friend. And Violet, fiercely intelligent, guarded, and far too beautiful, becomes the woman he can’t stop thinking about.
To make matters worse, Protestant preacher Ezra Pike leads a loud, condemning crusade against him, stirring up fear and division with fire-and-brimstone theatrics. As tensions rise, two gunmen arrive—one hunting Cotton, the other hunting the hunter. When bullets fly and secrets come to light, Graham must choose between the life they forced him into and the purpose he’s finally found.
They may have sent him here to disappear and die, but the West doesn’t forget a man who finds something worth fighting for.
Good thing Darius taught him how to shoot.