The Drummond Resolve

Six years in a Texas penitentiary can change a man. Caleb Drummond comes home determined not to waste the years he has left.

Framed for the murder of a trusted family friend, Caleb lost his freedom at twenty-three. By the time he returns to West Texas, both of his parents are dead, the woman he once expected to marry has built another life, and the family ranch has fallen into the hands of Charles Conway, a powerful cattleman with good reason to keep the past buried.

Caleb soon discovers that clearing his name will take more than a gun. Old survey records are missing. A witness was paid to lie. His own defense attorney has secrets he spent six years drinking to forget. And the land his father lost may have been taken by methods that will not stand once the right men begin looking closely.

So Caleb sends word to Montana.

The Drummonds do not gather lightly. But when family comes, they bring ranchers, riflemen, a lawyer, a financier, miners, woodsmen, and men who know hard country from Texas to the northern border. Together they will have to uncover what Conway built his empire on without becoming the kind of men Caleb was accused of being.

The Drummond Resolve is the first novel in The Drummond Clan, a traditional Western saga of family loyalty, hard-earned justice, dangerous men, and the long work of reclaiming a life after everything familiar has been taken away.