The Reckoning
by Mike Torreano
Genre: Western
Mystery, Historical Fiction
Ike McAlister returns home to
Kansas after the Civil War, his soul bruised and empty. Worse, his parents have
been killed by Quantrill’s raiders who are still on the
loose. No stranger to death and destruction, he vows to run the killers down. A
clue leads him to the high plains of Colorado, but when his sister, Sue,
disappears from there, his world quickly spins out of control. In the midst of
this turmoil, a feisty landlady sparks an attraction, the only good thing in
Ike’s life.
Racing against time, he must make a deadly choice. If he continues to pursue the killers, Sue will likely never be found. But if he veers off to find his sister, the killers’ trail will go cold.
Which track to follow? Will the love of family triumph in his broken heart, or will it be the passionate hate of revenge?
Racing against time, he must make a deadly choice. If he continues to pursue the killers, Sue will likely never be found. But if he veers off to find his sister, the killers’ trail will go cold.
Which track to follow? Will the love of family triumph in his broken heart, or will it be the passionate hate of revenge?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mike
Torreano has a military background and is a student of history and the American
West. He fell in love
with
Zane Grey’s descriptions of the Painted Desert in the fifth grade, when his
teacher made her students
read
a book and write a report every week.
Mike
recently had a short story set during the Yukon gold rush days published in an
anthology, and he’s
written
for magazines and small newspapers. An experienced editor, he’s taught University
English and
Journalism.
He’s a member of Colorado Springs Fiction Writers, Pikes Peak Writers, The
Historical Novel
Society,
and several western history groups. He brings his readers back in time with him
as he recreates
western
life in late 19th century America.
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