Jeb Rosebrook

Tortured Trail is the second novel in the straight shooting, fast moving, action-adventure Jack Ballard series. In book one - No Man's Land - Ballard helped save a widow and her daughter from a hostile land grab in West Texas. Now, needing some cash, Jack has joined a cattle drive in Bandera, Texas.

Scarred by the Civil War, now a loner by choice, Missouri-born Jack Ballard rides the West in search of trouble. Sometimes he's able to stop it from hurting innocent people--and sometimes he causes it.It can't be helped, though. He is a good man with a fast gun, and in West Texas in the late 1800's, trouble lies around every bend.Only he and his filed-down .44-40 Colt can stop it.