Hoping to escape his past and find creative inspiration, Western dime novelist Grant Coolidge heads west, landing in Lockwood, a burgeoning railroad town in Wyoming Territory. Struck by the beauty of the neighboring mountains and ranch lands and intrigued by the town's inhabitants, he quickly settles into his new life west of the Mississippi.

But when the Lockwood sheriff is hospitalized, happenstance forces Grant to take up the badge. Plunged into the middle of a murder investigation, Grant must also juggle a budding romance and the townspeople's continuing curiosity about their new sheriff . . . who also happens to be the author of some of their favorite novels.

Brimming with adventure, humor and romance, Ron Schwab's latest novel is a spellbinding Western you won't soon forget!