C.C. Cochrane

When a lone rider drifts into the dusty frontier town of Painted Canyon, he plans to water his horse and move on. But one darkened doorway, one hidden gunman, and one split-second shot change everything. Now the stranger finds himself trapped in a town where every street hides danger and every shadow seems to carry a rifle. Somebody has been waiting for him. Somebody knows his name. And somebody intends to make sure he never rides out alive.
Outnumbered and wounded, the rider must fight his way through a deadly web of ambushes, secrets, and old grudges buried deep beneath the dust of Painted Canyon. But the closer he gets to the truth, the more he realizes the killer in the doorway may not be the deadliest man in town. Because in some places, death doesn't ride in from the outside. It's already waiting when you arrive. KILLER IN THE DOORWAY is a hard-driving Western packed with blazing gunfights, shadowy enemies, and relentless frontier suspense from the first shot to the last.