Blind Trails

This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. Peace River Parker is the kind of cowhand who looks plain enough to be overlooked, yet thinks fast enough to outplay almost anyone around him. On the rugged Cross L ranch and in the rough town of Tarp City, he moves through a world of cattle, sheep, saloons, and grudges where a careless word can start a fight and old betrayals still shape the present. He is engaged to Jess Marshall, but his quiet self-doubt about his looks and worth leaves him vulnerable when polished newcomer Frank Campion begins courting her and stirring up Cross L Marshall's bitter memories of a Wyoming feud. As Peace navigates payday crowds, drunken insults, and a tense robbery investigation, he proves both unshakable and shrewd, humiliating a troublemaker, tracking suspicious sheep dealings, and choosing caution over open confrontation. Yet the hardest conflict remains personal: his loyalty to the valley, his uncertain future, and the emotional pull of Jess. When armed men block his route out of Chinook Valley, the story closes on danger, isolation, and the sense that bigger schemes are tightening around him.