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Hoofprints in Saguaro Shadows: When It's Time To Take A Stand
Paperback
Series: Hoofprints of War, Book 1
Mystery & ThrillerWesternsGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 29 2024
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.43 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
NOT EVERY THREAT CROSSED THE BORDER FOR WORK.
Rye Dalton has spent her life between two worlds.
By day, she manages her family's historic cattle ranch along the Arizona-Mexico border. Quiet desert mornings, cutting horses, and generations of hard-earned tradition define the Dalton Ranch.
But beyond the ranch, Rye serves another role-one built in the shadows of international counterterrorism.
When she encounters a group of armed men hiding deep within a remote arroyo on her property, something immediately feels wrong. Their movements are disciplined. Their behavior calculated.
And then she hears them speaking Pashto.
What begins as a disturbing encounter quickly unravels into something far more dangerous than cartel smuggling or illegal crossings. As violence spreads across the borderlands, Rye discovers evidence of organized networks exploiting the chaos surrounding immigration to quietly move operatives, establish infrastructure, and position themselves deep inside the United States.
While politicians argue and the media focuses on headlines, the real threat moves silently through the desert.
Forced into an uneasy alliance with neighboring ranchers, law enforcement, and contacts on both sides of the border, Rye finds herself fighting to protect more than just her family ranch. What is unfolding in the Southwest may be the early stages of something capable of threatening the stability of the entire nation.
Hoofprints in Saguaro Shadows is a gripping border thriller blending ranch life, cartel violence, counterterrorism, and constitutional survival into a story that feels unsettlingly plausible.
It is not a story about hating immigrants.
It is a story about recognizing the difference between people searching for opportunity and those exploiting chaos for power.
Book One of the Hoofprints of War series.
If you enjoy modern western thrillers, border suspense, geopolitical fiction, and stories of ordinary Americans forced to defend their land and freedom, this series will keep you turning pages late into the night.
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