The Beautiful Ones

Tame the Wild Places: Range Wars, Unlikely Heroes, and a Deadly Day to Come

“It's not until you tame the wild places that the monsters come out.”

New hope brings new challenges and new blood from the East. With Archer and Rosamund Scott presiding over the land they love and Raymond Lacey serving as marshal, Glory Mesa is poised to enter a new golden age. But the hard-won peace is marred by rumblings of trouble on the horizon and the shadow of the ancient curse.

From Jesse Thatcher's run-in with a grizzled mountain man to Kate Carnegie's quest to bring justice to a pair of hapless brothers, the Western Territory becomes a stage for desperate deeds and unlikely heroes. Yet, unknown to all but a few, this season of range wars, breakneck rides, lone gunslingers, and gentle romances is building to a deadly day that will alter the territory and its people forever.

• Western adventure: range wars, breakneck rides, lone gunslingers, and gentle romances in the Western Territory
• Unlikely heroes: from Jesse Thatcher's run-in with a grizzled mountain man to Kate Carnegie's quest to bring justice
• A new golden age: Archer and Rosamund Scott preside over Glory Mesa with Raymond Lacey as marshal
• Shadow of the ancient curse: hard-won peace marred by trouble on the horizon, building to a deadly day

Grades: 7+ (Ages 12+)

Subjects & Topics: young adult fiction • action & adventure • westerns • legends • myths • fables • Arthurian • romance