Publisher's Synopsis
In 1880s Colorado, Trace Selby carries a heavy shadowed burden of love lost. His emptiness is replaced by his gun. He hires out to retrieve stolen valuables, but refuses to kill for money. When provoked, he will kill swiftly and without remorse. Everything seems about to change for Trace when he is reunited with his former sweetheart. But her husband has other plans. Trace's morals are challenged when her husband plans to hire Trace to deal with his two renegade sons--by any means necessary. Trace is embroiled in a tangle of double-crossing deceit, while he only wants to have a second chance to recapture the innocent love of his youth. Can he find his way out from under the SHADOW OF THE LONELY?
