Gun Hatred

This time, he’ll prove it once and for all…

For three months now, Lash Parker has been on tour duty in the neighbouring town of Alfafa.

His original post was a deputy for Hawkville, Leyton County, Kansas. But three months ago, he was shot badly in an ambush.

Rustlers had been targeting Leyton County and Parker had caught two of them red-handed: Snatch Bailey and Dick Morris.

He’d brought them back to Hawkville but to his shock, the owner of the rustled cattle, Ryan Ford of the R.F. ranch, dropped any charges against the pair.

A cattleman not coming down on his most hated of enemies?

From that moment on, Parker has had his suspicions on Ford; the man’s greed is well known – the kind of man who’s used to getting everything he wants.

Not only that but Bailey and Morris were under Ford’s payroll. Could his men really have betrayed him or were they under Ford’s orders?

But before he could make any sort of investigation, Bailey and Morris ambushed him and he was forced to kill them, before they killed him.

Even though there were witnesses that they’d jumped him, the county was split in half about Parker’s actions.

So he was sent away to heal and let tempers cool.

But now he’s back in Hawkville and it seems that the county is still under the mercy of cattle rustlers.

Sheriff Pete Willen doesn’t want trouble and while Parker doesn’t plan on making any, it seems trouble keeps finding him.

Snatch Bailey’s brother, Jake Bailey has promised revenge on Parker. And Ford’s bodyguards, Red Snape and Griff Callett, are more than happy to help.

Parker’s only real happiness in Hawkville is the town’s dressmaker, Charlene Wyatt.

Ford was once sweet on her and Parker figures that he can’t stand that he’s been ‘beaten’.

And as Charlene quickly tells him, Ford once said he’d own the entire county of Leyton. It’s the kind of ambition to corrupt a man.

With another spate of rustling, Parker is hot on their trail. It soon becomes clear the rustlers are not just smart, but audacious.

There’s a conspiracy afoot, but Parker is determined to see justice done, even with his Gun Hatred…

Gun Hatred is a heart-pounding, gun-toting Western.

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