J. Lee Butts

If a hard life makes harder men then Eli Gault is cast-iron in boots. Raised by a merciless drunken fire-and-brimstone preacher young Eli avenged himself upon his pious pa. Then after he took all the kind charity he could handle from the local ladies Eli's killer instincts forced him to go on the run with nothing but his guts and guns to keep him alive. But Eli's true education begins when he meets Cutter Sharpe - a legendary gunhand

Tilden's latest mission: track down the Coltrane brothers, who butchered most of the Cassidy family and made off with their daughter, Daisy. But when a girl down in Texas claims to be Daisy Cassidy, Tilden smells a lie