Valentine - Hardcover

by Earl Wayne (Author)

Some men spend their lives running from the past. Valentine is finally ready to face his.

After years of carrying guilt, violence, and memories he could never outrun, Valentine returns to the Texas ranch country where he once belonged. He hopes that hard work, familiar faces, open land, and a simpler life might finally bring him the peace he has been searching for. But peace does not come easily.

Beyond the ranch lies a dangerous world of smugglers, cartels, human trafficking, corruption, and people willing to destroy innocent lives for profit. When Valentine becomes caught in the path of that brutality, walking away is no longer an option. The instincts he tried to bury return, forcing him to confront not only dangerous enemies but also the man he became because of his past.

Along the way, shattered lives become connected by loss, loyalty, friendship, faith, and love. For Valentine and those around him, survival is only the beginning. The greater fight is learning whether people who have endured the worst of humanity can still build something worth living for.

Valentine is a gritty contemporary Western filled with action, family, romance, sacrifice, and redemption. Moving between the beauty of ranch life and the violence of the borderlands, it is a story about confronting evil, protecting those who cannot protect themselves, finding family in unexpected places, and turning something born from tragedy into something good.

For readers who enjoy Western action-adventure, crime thrillers, stories of justice and revenge, family sagas, and powerful tales of second chances, Valentine delivers a sweeping story of a cowboy fighting for more than survival, he is fighting for the chance to become whole again.