Judah County (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798181725904)

Seventeen-year-old John Sommerfield has never known anything but the hard work of his family's farm in the timbered hills of Judah County, Kansas. Then his father is gunned down, and John inherits everything the man left behind: his debts, his last word - "Preacher" - and a horse that has never in its life let anyone besides his father near it.

Until now.

To find out who killed his father and why, John has to go through Augustus Judah, a man who has buried his way to power in this county and isn't finished yet. With Charli Preston at his side - a girl with her own reasons to want Judah gone - John starts pulling at threads that reach back before either of them was born. Some debts don't get paid off. They get inherited.

Judah County is a gothic Western of grief, vengeance, and blood - for readers who like their frontier fiction dark as McCarthy and dread-soaked as King.