RIVER CREED is the final novel in a trilogy that traces incest, rape and murder in the Ozarks. It’s a dangerous track. About one-third of Missouri is covered by forests and rivers. It’s easy to hide the bodies .... Enough is enough. A small band of maverick outliers determine to put an end to the wicked. Bullets are on the menu.

Billy Anthem is a long way from Texas when he comes to the Pacific Coast town of Calamity Bay. On his way north, Billy survives a bushwhacking and ends up deputized by a sheriff who needs someone to trust. For a decade, Calamity Bay has been in the grip of one man. Following a brutal murder, Noah Creed and his sons want a murder suspect hanged--no matter what the evidence shows, no matter what the law says. Bound by a promise, and more than a little interested in a woman, Billy knows this is no time to be moving on. But he doesn't know how explosive the truth is, or how desperate the Creeds really are. Now, for a Texan a long way from, there's only one choice: to be armed and ready for anything--in a place where he belongs...