Rough Outlaw

He stopped to mend a fence and earn his supper. By midnight, they were trying to hang him for murder.

Rip Campbell has been called plenty of things in his time.

Cowboy. Drifter. Trouble. Outlaw.

But murderer? That's a new one.

All Rip wants is an honest day's work, a decent meal, and somewhere to bed down with Judgment, the most stubborn mule in Texas.

When he comes across a small family ranch with a broken fence and eighty-seven head of cattle, he figures his luck has finally changed.

Daniel and Sarah McGregor are decent folks struggling to hold on to their little spread. They offer Rip supper in exchange for a few hours of fence repair.

It's a simple arrangement.

Until the gunshots start.

Rip races back to the ranch house and finds Daniel murdered on his own doorstep and Sarah bleeding and unconscious beneath the porch.

Before he can save her life, a deputy rides up and arrests him for murder.

By sundown, Rip is behind bars.

By midnight, an angry mob has a rope around his neck.

And if it weren't for a stubborn mule and a quick-thinking country doctor, Rip Campbell would be swinging from a cottonwood tree.

But somebody made a terrible mistake.

They left him alive.

With his name finally cleared enough to walk free, Rip returns to the McGregor ranch to look after the cattle until Sarah recovers.

That's when he discovers the truth.

A powerful neighboring cattle baron wants the McGregors' land. More importantly, he wants the creek running through it—the only reliable water crossing for miles.

And he's willing to do whatever it takes to get it.

Including murder.

Now Rip finds himself caught in a deadly struggle against a wealthy rancher, brutal hired gunmen, crooked land deals, and killers who have already tried to hang him once.

With a wounded widow depending on him, a young deputy struggling to find the truth, and Judgment providing about as much cooperation as a mule can be expected to offer, Rip must uncover the conspiracy before the last piece of the McGregor ranch is stolen.

The killers have money. They have guns. They have powerful friends.

Rip Campbell has a Colt, a rope, a mule, and a particularly low opinion of men who steal from widows.

And this time, he's not leaving until somebody answers for murder.

ROUGH OUTLAW is a gripping, action-packed Western adventure filled with ruthless cattle barons, deadly gunfights, crooked land schemes, frontier justice, dangerous outlaws, and the sharp, dry humor of a cowboy who just can't seem to stay out of trouble.

Perfect for readers who love classic Western adventures, Old West gunslingers, frontier lawmen, cowboy thrillers, and tough, quick-witted heroes who stand up for what's right—even when the whole town wants them dead.

They tried to hang the wrong cowboy.

Now they're going to find out just how wrong they were.