The Spirit of Sweetwater

In the shadow of the Rockies, a man who conquered the earth finds he cannot buy a single breath of life.

Richard Clement is a king of the Colorado high country, a titan who carved a fortune from frozen stone. Yet his gold feels like lead against a struggle he cannot control. He commits his iron-willed vitality to a desperate mission: to shield Ellice Ross, a woman whose life is withering under a terminal diagnosis.

At Sweetwater Springs, the mountain air offers a medicine the city cannot prov...