He has a dilemma and as dilemmas go, his is a big one.
Joseph Crane lives a quiet life in a small town in 1880’s Wyoming. A genial young man with a successful business, a wife, and a baby due.Yet all is not as it seems. Previously, he was Florian Fooks, charismatic leader of the Guardian Wall Gang but that wasn't as long ago as he would like.The shadow of his past looms large when two former associates arrive unexpectedly. Accused of murdering a prominent lawyer, they come seeking his help and Joseph doubts their guilt. Murder was never their game.If he sets out to learn more, he risks recognition and capture. But his wife needs him here.If he sends them away, chances are his former associates will hang before reaching trial. He can’t have that on his conscience.Torn between loyalty, self-preservation and a sense of justice, can he uncover the truth behind the lawyer’s murder in time without putting himself in danger?

His partner’s life at stake. No dilemma. This time he has to go.
Nearly a year has passed since Florian Fooks, hardware store owner, husband, father and reforming outlaw, last left the safety of Bronze Canyon. Hearing that someone has shot his old partner, Tobias Swan, Fooks crosses the Mississippi for the first time.On the long journey to Boston, he discovers things are even worse for Swan. He’s on the run, wanted for the murder of the uncle of the woman, Swan ran away with. Swan was the last person to see the victim alive and the police are closing in on him. Fooks is in a race against time to prove his partner innocent.Way outside his comfort zone, the more Fooks discovers about the dead man’s murky life, the more convinced he becomes that there is more to his death than appears at first glance.

New life under threat. Suffering amnesia. A killer to find.
Injured in an accident in his store, Joseph Crane doesn’t remember turning his life around, being married and a father. In his mind, he is still the leader of the notorious Guardian Wall Gang, Florian Fooks. Things couldn’t get much worse, until circumstances force a temporary sheriff on Bronze Canyon.Jack Priestly is a man has dealt with in the past and not favourably either. For Fooks, staying out of sight is the only prudent option. This proves impossible, and the inevitable happens. Arrested and with a long prison sentence awaiting, Fooks strikes a deal. Priestly wants his brother's killer brought to justice and he imposes a deadline. In return, Priestly will forget about Fooks living quietly in Bronze Canyon.Fooks has no choice but to trust him. Accompanied by the father-in-law he can’t remember, Fooks sets out to capture the killer.As Fooks digs deeper, a tangled web of deceit and wrong doing emerges. He must figure out what's going on before time runs out.

Left an inheritance. But only if he can solve a murder in time.
With three boisterous children and a wife, living in a tiny house, reformed outlaw Florian Fooks is desperate to improve his lot. Out of the blue, his former mentor, David Culley, asks him to visit. Fooks travels to Denver, where David drops a bomb shell, forecasting his own imminent murder. At first Fooks disregards the prophecy as the ramblings of an old man. Yet when the death occurs shortly afterwards, Fooks can no longer ignore the possibility that David was right.At the reading of David's Will, Fooks stands to inherit a large sum of money, which would solve his current housing problems and more. Yet to inherit, he has to solve David's murder within three months. Otherwise, the fortune is shared amongst the other beneficiaries, none of whom showed any fondness for the old man. Hostile would be a better word and Fooks finds himself with a ready-made list of suspects.