The Boy

<p><em><strong>The Boy</strong></em></p><p> </p><p><em>By Reno Bachman</em></p><p> </p><p><em>A cross was burning the night the boy's world turned to ash. He watched his father cut down his home destroyed and the life he knew swallowed by fire and hate.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Dragged into the wilderness by a grizzled prospector the boy learned to ride lean shoot straight and survive where weaker men would die. Each lesson hardened him sharpening grief into steel.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Now years later his path crosses with warriors killers and a woman named Red whose fire matches his own. But vengeance rides close behind led by the scarred preacher known only as the man with no face-the same devil who burned his life away.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>Violent unflinching and unforgettable The Boy is a dark Western short story about survival blood and the making of a legend.</em></p><p><br><br><em>A boy survives his father's murder and home's destruction learns survival skills from an old prospector and seeks revenge against a scarred preacher who destroyed his life.</em></p><p><br> </p><p>★★★★★ - Readers' Favorite</p><p>Survival love and vengeance collide in this relentless Western where every bullet counts. - Pikasho Deka</p><p><br> </p><p>★★★★★ - Readers' Favorite</p><p>Heartbreaking thrilling and merciless Reno Bachman delivers a Western that hits like a gunshot to the soul. - Asher Syed</p><p><br> </p><p>★★★★★ - Readers' Favorite</p><p>A beautiful and cinematic work by Reno Bachman. - Adanna Ora</p><p> </p><p> </p>