The Snow Debt (The Saga of Southwest Western)

Everyone in Silverton Crossing knows the story.

Cairn Rusk left men to die in the snow.

The truth is harder to live with, and he's never told it to anyone. Least of all his daughter.
A disgraced Army scout, Cairn hauls timber and keeps his head down, raising a thirteen-year-old girl and caring for a father whose mind slips a little further every day.

When winter threatens to close the high country, he takes them both up to the old family cabin, hoping the mountain will steady them.
Beneath the floorboards he finds stolen Army payroll and ammunition.
With them are documents proving Crown Butte Mining forged claims, bought lawmen, and intends to steal Rusk land.

The outlaws who hid the cache are coming back for it.
The company behind them wants every witness dead. And the only person who believes Cairn is Ellie Wilson, a healer who's seen what Crown Butte does to people who get in its way.

Cairn survived being called a coward.
Now he must become a man who kills to keep his family alive.
How much is a man willing to lose before there's nothing left to save?

A standalone Historical Western Adventure by James Leonard.
A Western Adventure of relentless action and hardship, threaded with Western Romance—readable in any order.