Mike Hatfield

Outlaws and Empires Mike Hatfield

The Western Adventure continues in book two of The Holden Sagas series... U. S. Deputy Marshal John Holden will resign from his lawman's career to begin on his long-held dream of building a cattle empire. It was not the only reason; there were others to consider now, the beautiful gambler, Wanda Bouchard, who had become his wife and their daughter Gabriella. John assembles a crew of work starved men for an expedition to Texas and meets an unexpected troop of trail driving veterans. Those veterans will lead him to a tough trail cook, Ruth Vance, an unusual woman with strong convictions. They will travel to Texas where John will buy 6,000 longhorns driving them back to his ranch in Bijou Basin, Colorado. The old Gypsy woman, Devika, will give dire predictions to Wanda of death on the trail. Fearing John may not return, leaving her and Gabriella destitute, Wanda returns to the gambling decks of the Mississippi riverboats. The trail north will be an arduous one for John Holden and his men facing mother nature's wrath, murderous outlaws, and strange happenings...