The Legend-Breaker. Saddlehorn, #1

In Saddlehorn, legends travel faster than the law. Sheriff Mag Denver has spent three years keeping order in a frontier town that never fully accepted her badge. Calm, observant, and relentlessly patient, she knows every street, ranch trail, and quiet tension beneath Saddlehorn's surface. She also knows one dangerous truth: a legend can protect a criminal more effectively than any gun. When a stagecoach is robbed on the south road, the masked outlaw takes only from a wealthy banker.
He is courteous, careful, and almost theatrical. By the time the passengers reach town, fear has already begun turning into admiration. The robber is Frank Dobkins, the territory's celebrated gentleman outlaw-a man who robs with style, spends lavishly, and leaves behind stories people are eager to repeat. Where others see charm, Mag sees calculation. Every bow, every joke, and every act of generosity strengthens the myth that keeps Dobkins beyond the law.
But when he rides openly into Saddlehorn and wins over nearly everyone in town, Mag refuses to become part of his audience. Their confrontation will not be decided by the fastest draw. It will be fought through observation, deception, public opinion, and a tightening duel of wills. As Dobkins's carefully constructed legend begins to crack, Mag must expose the man beneath it before his need to preserve the myth turns deadly.
The Legend-Breaker is the first Saddlehorn historical Western mystery, introducing a sharp-eyed woman sheriff, a frontier town divided by loyalty and fascination, and a battle between truth and the stories people choose to believe.