{"product_id":"the-long-scar-a-j-strand-9798183635997","title":"The Long Scar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA line on a map. A dying man's signature. A town that has no idea what's coming for it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConn Maddox rides north off the Mogollon Rim wounded, wanting nothing more than a place to mend and a road to leave by when he's able. What he finds in the high pine country above the Rim is Harpe's Crossing - a small timber settlement with its hands tied by a survey line that wasn't there a year ago, drawn through homestead claims and spring pastures by a company with good lawyers and no patience left to wait.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCurtis Alderton has the paper\u003c\/b\u003e. A dying man closing his last contract before his body finishes the job his doctor already warned him about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenton Rusk has the patience\u003c\/b\u003e. The kind that makes refusal cost more than any homesteader can afford to pay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the only thing standing between Harpe's Crossing and losing everything it has is a stranger who rode in wanting to be left alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the past doesn't stay behind a man forever. A face from the army years Conn never speaks of is riding toward him too - carrying a question four years old, and an answer Conn isn't sure he has the right to give.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE LONG SCAR\u003c\/b\u003e is the second novel in the Conn Maddox series - a spare, hard-country Western about a man who reads land and people better than anyone alive, and what it costs him every time he chooses to do right in a place that was never going to do it for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome debts are paid in money. Some are paid in blood. And some a man carries the rest of his life, whether he ever sets them down or not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you like competent men who say little and mean all of it, country that fights back, and a code that costs exactly what it's worth - ride north with Conn Maddox.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. J. Strand\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798183635997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.48d","brand":"A. J. Strand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997823217919,"sku":"9798183635997","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-long-scar-a-j-strand-9798183635997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}