The Beauty of the Days Gone By: A Novel

Inspired by real events, a vivid and sweeping Western in the grand tradition of Lonesome Dove and Blood Meridian: an unforgettable saga of fathers and sons, captivity and belonging, and the violent struggle between Texans, Comanche, and Kiowa in the years after the Civil War

1866. On a sun-drenched stretch of West Texas prairie, the Terry brothers are playing near their family ranch when a Kiowa war party suddenly descends. Former Texas Ranger RL Terry returns to total devastation: his home ...