{"product_id":"what-was-written-troy-harwood-jones-9781997984030","title":"What Was Written","description":"What Was Written \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Cypress Hills, 1873.\u003cbr\u003eBefore the Mounted Police. Before the law had a name to put to itself.\u003cbr\u003eA man arrives at a whiskey post on the Canadian-American border wearing a dead minister's collar and carrying the dead minister's name. No one has sent for him. No parish waits. But a collar can do what nothing else will.\u003cbr\u003eHe begins to write.\u003cbr\u003eDisputes are settled. Lines are drawn. A record takes shape.\u003cbr\u003eA congregation gathers. A widow lets him stay. A child learns his name.\u003cbr\u003eIt starts to hold.\u003cbr\u003eBut the borderlands have their own uses for law.\u003cbr\u003eTwo traders press for advantage. A past in Fort Benton moves north. And out on the plain, Assiniboine people are drinking whiskey they never asked for, brought by men who do not answer to anyone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Was Written\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about the law made in the absence of law, the violence that fills the silence where justice should be, and the cost of building a life on a name that was never yours.\u003cbr\u003eOn June 1, 1873, at the Cypress Hills, everything he has written will be put to the question.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Troy Harwood-Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1997984032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781997984030\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Troy Harwood-Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 366\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.93lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.76d","brand":"Troy Harwood-Jones","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001981837567,"sku":"9781997984030","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-was-written-troy-harwood-jones-9781997984030","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}