Some debts are paid in gold. Some are paid in blood. Some drag a man straight to hell.The mine was already dying.
Then the payroll disappeared.
Ryder came to the mountain camp for quiet work and steady pay - the kind of place a man could keep his head down and avoid trouble. But when the company strongbox is blown open and the miners' wages vanish overnight, suspicion spreads faster than wildfire in dry grass.
With no pay coming and winter creeping closer, the camp turns on itself.
Friends become suspects.
Rumors become accusations.
Fear becomes violence.
The sheriff needs a culprit.
The mine boss needs control.
And someone is willing to kill to keep the truth buried.
Ryder knows the theft wasn't random. The blast was deliberate. Planned. Done by someone who knew the mine from the inside.
When an innocent man is arrested and another is shot at in the dark, Ryder is forced to choose between staying out of it - or stepping into a fight that may cost him everything.
Because this time, the trail doesn't lead to outlaws.
It leads into the camp itself.
And the closer Ryder gets to the truth, the clearer it becomes - someone is willing to burn the whole mountain down before they let it come to light.
Straight to Hell is a gritty Western about loyalty, survival, and the price of justice when the law runs out of answers.
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