The DEBT: a 4-part novella series based on Cowboy, ex-soldier, Matt Stone, all in one book together! Matt Stone rode into Markleeville one hot dusk, with a wind at his back that promised summer thunder. He was tall and lean, with a narrow, clean-shaven face above the collar of his oilskin duster. His eyes were a hard pale blue, like chips of ice, and his black hair was long like an Apache’s and held back with a strip of leather. The coat was open, revealing a buckskin vest and the pair of silver Colts at his hips. He rode a huge, sleek black horse with a bullet scar showing in white hairs across one flank. Its name was Lucky. That horse had carried him through Gettysburg alive, and then taken him west, where he’d spent three years wandering, trying to get the echoes of battle out of his head. Matt managed to escape death in Gettysburg and just when he begins to believe he has something good with Anne, destiny takes a shot and sends everything spinning out of control.
In this second book of the series, Matt is still at Anne’s ranch. Anne is in town talking to May, the barmaid and her friend when she sees someone get off the stage in a brown suit with gold rings. Instantly not liking the look of things, as soon as she’s done with what she needs to do, she heads back to the ranch. That night, she asks Matt to stay in the main house with her, not feeling safe. The gunslinger, whom is known to Matt, starts shooting up the house. Once Matt has dispatched him,…