Ridge of Reckoning

In the high country, the law doesn't always reach far enough. When a ranch foreman turns up dead at the base of a mountain ridge, Marshal Ethan Cole rides into a town that has learned to survive by keeping its mouth shut. The sheriff is gone. The answers are buried. And the ridge watches everything. As Cole follows the trail upward, he finds more than a single killing. He finds hidden claims, stolen blasting powder, and a powerful rancher who believes the mountain answers only to him.
The higher Cole climbs, the more dangerous the truth becomes-and the more alone he stands. Gunfire echoes through timber. Snow buries the past. And the ridge demands its price. In a land where silence has ruled longer than the law, Ethan Cole must decide how much justice is worth-and whether a man can face the mountain and come back whole. A hard, realistic Western of isolation, consequence, and a reckoning that cannot be outrun.