{"product_id":"mccoys-high-stakes-wyatt-steele-9798241858863","title":"McCoy's High Stakes: A Classic Western Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eHe took the job for the money. He didn't know the railroad was bleeding. And he sure as hell didn't know the other guard was Doc Holliday.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcCoy thought he was buying himself an easy ride out of town-cash in his pocket, feet up, cards in hand. But when the railroad hires him to guard a payroll shipment through no-man's-land, he finds himself stuck on a train with a crew of strangers, a dying boiler, and one too many men who don't talk about their past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he meets the other guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA pale, soft-spoken gambler with a drawl like honey and eyes like a funeral. A man who knows too much, says too little, and never sits with his back to an open door. He's nobody McCoy recognizes-until the shooting starts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSabotaged rails.\u003cbr\u003eBullets in the dark.\u003cbr\u003eRiders in the hills.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first attack nearly derails the train. The second threatens to end it. By the time the smoke clears, McCoy understands the truth: \u003cb\u003ethis job wasn't hired clean-and somebody wants the payroll bad enough to kill them all to get it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe engine limps on, a patched-together iron coffin dragging them through miles of open prairie. The crew is green, the men behind the guns are hungry, and the enemy never lets them rest. In the chaos-beneath dust, blood, and boiling steam-McCoy tries to figure out the stranger at his side: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man who shoots like a surgeon, thinks like a wolf, and plays death like it's a card game he's already won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoc Holliday is dying.\u003cbr\u003eBut he ain't done yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd between rail breaks, night assaults, and open-country pursuit, McCoy discovers there may be \u003cb\u003eone fate worse than losing his life-losing it next to a man who doesn't fear his own.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf McCoy wants to live long enough to see another game, he'll have to learn three things fast: \u003cbr\u003ehow to fight from a moving train, \u003cbr\u003ehow to hold men together when the rails fall apart, \u003cbr\u003eand how to gamble with death and not blink first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the riders aren't done with them.\u003cbr\u003eAnd the prairie swallows the weak whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wyatt Steele\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798241858863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Wyatt Steele","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48089535217919,"sku":"9798241858863","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_331d8093-1a86-4d8f-b819-c680884b1b69.jpg?v=1769110876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mccoys-high-stakes-wyatt-steele-9798241858863","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}