No Mercy on the Trail: Smoking Guns Collection, Western Action & Adventure

Abraham “Abe” Cross knows the frontier does not hate a man.It simply does not care whether he lives or dies.A former Union scout hardened by war and wilderness, Abe has signed on to guide twenty wagons west along the Oregon Trail. The pilgrims he protects are ordinary folk chasing extraordinary hopes—farmers, widows, children, tradesmen, and dreamers willing to risk everything for a new life in Oregon.To Abe, it is a long ribbon of dust, broken wheels, shallow graves, and danger hidden in every draw.The trail is dry, the oxen are weakening, and water is running low. When Abe finds a spring-fed creek hidden beneath towering cottonwoods, the discovery should save the wagon train. Instead, it places them dangerously close to an encampment in a land already strained by broken promises, hunger, and war.Scouts vanish. Shots ring out. Trust begins to fray. And somewhere beyond the cottonwoods, riders are watching, measuring, waiting.The trail west demands payment.And Abe Cross may be the only man hard enough to collect it. Read more