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The Blood-Bought Deed

Book 1 in The Straight Line Westerns

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by P M Charles

Ten years ago, Pete Marsh saved Cole Whitaker’s life in a killing mountain winter. Before he died, he made Cole swear one thing: find his son when the boy came of age, hand him the deed to a valley, and keep him alive long enough to claim it. Now Danny Marsh is twenty-one, dealing cards in a Billings saloon, and wants nothing from a dead father or the stranger carrying his promise. But the Stillwater Valley is no empty inheritance. A powerful cattleman has already swallowed the land, bought the sheriff, and set the law against them. To keep his vow, Cole must drag an unwilling young man across hostile Montana Territory and face an outfit that owns everything except the deed in his saddlebag. Cole does not want the valley. He does not want a war. But a promise made to a dead man is still a promise. Blood-Bought Deed is a classic Western of hard country, quiet courage, and the price a man pays when his code will not let him ride away.

Publication date: June 10, 2026