Debt of Honor in Brush Country: Smoking Guns Collection, Western Action & Adventure

He once saved a colonel’s life. Now Texas is calling in the debt.

Harlan Cole was once a feared sergeant of the Texas Brigade. Fifteen years later, he is Prisoner 402—wrongfully convicted, stripped of his ranch, and chained in the Huntsville quarry. Then Colonel Kit Carter appears with an freedom, restoration, and a commission as a Special Texas Ranger.

Across the Nueces Strip, ranches are burning, herds are vanishing, and families are being slaughtered by disciplined raiders led by a mysterious white captain. Cole’s mission is find the head of the snake and cut it off. Yet the deeper he rides into the mesquite, the clearer the truth becomes. The man behind the bloodshed is Captain Toombs, Cole’s former wartime commander—a soldier who knows every tactic Cole learned and every weakness he carries.

Cole sets out alone, but the trail gives him Rosa Estrada, a courageous young woman whose family has paid dearly for Toombs’s war. Together they follow stolen cattle, murdered settlers, and whispered betrayals toward a final confrontation in a town already marked for certain death.

Cole owes Carter his freedom.
He owes Rosa justice.

And he owes himself one last chance to prove a man’s honor can survive prison, war, and the gun smoke of the frontier.

Debt comes due.