The Sound of the Trees: A Novel

In the American Southwest in 1930 Trude Mason and his mother ride out into the predawn quiet hoping to escape Trudes brutal violent father and an equally violent past. They plan on reaching Colorado a place they believe holds the biggest ranches the most limitless promise and lives of the greatest ease. What Trude finds in a small border town in New Mexico however is brutality and lawlessness in the form of a cruel pitiless sheriff and his devoted posse. When they arrest and sentence to death a young woman whose life Trude has saved he must endure an explosive collision between conscience and self-preservation.