The Ghost, the Serpent, and the Wasteland

Twenty one outlaws rode to the farm that fateful day. Only thirteen rode away. His crops torched, his livestock slaughtered, his home destroyed, and his beloved wife murdered, Locke sets out on a path of vengeance, seeking those responsible for bringing a brutal end to a hard won life of peace. With him is the child, Elizabeth's flesh and blood, who he promised to protect above all else. But the cries for revenge aren't so easily ignored by one such as Locke, and so the pair embark on their bloody trail, crossing the wasteland in pursuit of the thirteen Rattlesnakes that slithered away from New Kingston. Before there was a journey down the Long Road, there was a hunt across the wasteland. Follow Locke in this prequel novel as his quest for justice forces him to rejoin the World Hereafter...