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The Borrowed Rifle
Paperback
Series: The Standing Ground, Book 1
General FictionHistorical Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 9 2026
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some nights don't need a hero.
They need someone who refuses to move.
When Thomas Kade rides into a small frontier town at dusk, he plans to pass through by morning. Instead, he finds himself standing in the only place where violence has not yet decided to happen.
A boy is hiding in a boardinghouse.
A rifle-borrowed, not owned-has been placed into Thomas's hands with rules that matter more than the weapon itself.
As the night tightens, lies spread faster than truth, and restraint begins to look like guilt. Thomas must decide how long a man can stand still before standing becomes an act that costs more than leaving.
The Borrowed Rifle is a quiet, pressure-driven Western novella about restraint, moral exposure, and the danger of holding ground when everyone else wants permission to cross it.
This is not a story about who fires first.
It is about who refuses to.
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