The Devil's Hired Hand

Judah Harlan has spent years being the man other men hire when they want fear delivered without getting their own hands dirty. In Caliche Bend, they call him the Devil's Hired Hand, and the name was earned in fire, blood, and the screams of people who remember what he did. When ranch boss Wade Strickland sends Judah to scare Esther Morrow off her Salt Fork land, it should be one more ugly job in a life already stained past washing.

But Esther is not the kind of woman who scares easy. A stron...