Publisher's Synopsis
Isaiah "Ike" Branson left Potosi, Missouri, at age seventeen to find his fortune in the West. Along with his meager possessions, he also brought the Ozarks' culture of honesty, loyalty, and courage with him. After he settled in the West, his brothers Jesse and Caleb followed his path.
Ike and Jesse worked their way across the land as ranch hands, Indian scouts, and finally U.S. Marshals. Caleb lost his wife and newborn child, sold his farm, and headed to Texas. His hope was to become a Texas Ranger. Ike found love in the form of a woman who was married to a man he is chasing. He discovered Sarah had been raped and left with a baby boy. Her father had forced her to marry a man she despised so that the grandfather wouldn't have to raise a bastard grandson. The baby was a little boy when Ike stumbled upon their farm. Ike helps with some work on the run-down farm and becomes attached to Sarah and her young son, Kenny. The problem is he has his duty to perform. After killing her husband in a gunfight, Ike is torn between his love for Sarah and the possible effects of having killed the step-father of her young son. The Lawman is the story of one man's love for the law, his family, and the bond between a father and his adopted son.
