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Widow's Peak
Paperback
Publisher Price: $12.99
Publisher: Grand Ozarks Media
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
He signed on to protect a legend. He ended up protecting the truth.
Broke, tired, and down to his last three pennies, Eldridge Sample takes a job that no self-respecting gunfighter would touch: bodyguard for a traveling wild west show run by a professional widow.
Jenny Jackson is selling a story. She claims her late husband, Major Lucius Jackson, was the Hero of the Plains, a man who single-handedly held off a Comanche war party to save a settlement. But Sample remembers the Major differently. He remembers a coward who slept through the Battle of Shiloh while his men died in the mud.
Despite his better judgment, Sample joins the troupe-a drunk juggler, a runaway rope artist, and the sharp-tongued widow-as they tour the dusty mining camps of West Texas. But when a real Comanche raiding party attacks the wagons, Sample discovers that the show is built on more than just lies.
Uncovering a trail of brand-new Henry repeating rifles sold to the very warriors terrorizing the frontier, Sample realizes he's stumbled onto a conspiracy that leads straight to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Now, caught between a corrupt government agent desperate to bury the evidence and a widow determined to turn a massacre into a headline, Sample must decide whether to walk away or rewrite the script with a Colt .45.
The truth is messy, Sample said. That's why people pay for the lie.
Witty, cynical, and packed with action, Widow's Peak is a deconstruction of the Western myth that delivers all the thrills of the real thing. Perfect for fans of True Grit, the satire of The Sisters Brothers, and the hard-boiled style of Elmore Leonard.
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