🤠 A lone gunman.💥 A fatal mistake.🔫 A manhunt across the unforgiving desert.Inthe sun-scorched badlands, a man known only as Ripis left afoot when his horse goes down hard. A chance ride on afreight wagon feels like salvation—until it drops him into themiddle of a bloody ambush.

Rip escapes with hislife…
🐎 a stolen horse…
🎒 and the wrongsaddlebag.

Inside is a fortune instolen bank bonds he never wanted—and now the desert is crawlingwith men who will kill to get them back.

A relentless pursuitexplodes across blistering alkali flats and shadowed canyons 🌄
Ripis hunted by three deadly forces:

🔴 Slade,a brutal outlaw leader who wants the bonds at any cost
⭐ Arelentless sheriff and his Comanche tracker, riding hard for frontierjustice
🎯 Flint McCrae, a cold-eyed bountyhunter who’s always one step behind

But the bonds are a lie.

They’re bait—part of adeeper conspiracy of greed and murder engineered by a corrupt bankerpulling strings from the shadows 💰🩸 Rip, the only loose end,becomes the target of every gun in the territory.

Battling a venomoussnakebite 🐍, crushing thirst 💦, and the ghosts of a war hecan’t forget, Rip must outwit his hunters and uncover thetruth—before the desert, or a bullet, claims him for good.

🔥 ROUGH SHODis a gritty, high-octane Wild West thriller in the tradition ofElmore Leonard and Louis L’Amour—ahard-driving story of survival, betrayal, and the deadly cost of asingle wrong turn.

🎧 Press play and ridehard. The desert shows no mercy.