Dawson:: Heart of a Legend (Chronicles of the Western Frontier)

In 1863, sixteen-year-old Cole Dawson watches Quantrill’s raiders slaughter his father and burn Lawrence, Kansas to the ground. Swearing revenge, he joins the Union cavalry and rises from raw recruit to battle-hardened captain, proving his courage at Cane Hill and Prairie Grove while hunting the very guerrillas who destroyed his family.After the war, Dawson pins on the sheriff’s badge in the wild cattle town of Abilene. Facing corrupt Jayhawkers, rowdy trail hands, and his own hardened heart, he brings order to the chaos—one bullet and one moral choice at a time.But when he falls for Emma, a young widow whose husband he once spared on the battlefield, Dawson discovers that true legend is not forged by vengeance alone… but by the heart that chooses mercy and love. Read more