Preface
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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Solomon MacLean was born for trouble, and the untamed West is eager to oblige. A charming drifter who trades the suffocating routine of his family’s Virginia plantation for the smoke-filled saloons of New Orleans, Solomon lives for the wild side. He is a master with cards, but his pearl-handled Colts are faster than any hand he deals. After a fatal encounter with a powerful man, Solomon flees toward the sunset with a striking Creole beauty, carving out a lethal reputation on the West Coast, Nevada and Idaho. But fate deals a shocking hand in Cold Spring, Montana, where Solomon finds his younger brother, David, serving as the town marshal. The reunion stirs a long-buried ache for home, forcing Solomon to face his greatest gamble yet. Has the legendary gunman finally found a place to settle, or is he destined to remain a ghost, searching for the one thing he can’t win at the card table?
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
- Robert Louis Stevenson