The Masked Bandit Beauty

Frontier mystery with shifting loyalties and buried secrets.

Isabella keeps her promise to mentor Ron Taylor, swapping pistols for lock picks in an 1880 frontier town, until a squabble over hidden gold yanks her toward the underworld she fled. Micah appears, a thief who reshapes his face at will and answers to no clear code, turning rival then reluctant partner as they chase whispers of a federal payroll robbery from two decades past. Clues coil around the Soren crime family, the Gray Feather gang, and a politician clutching his mistress like a shield, each thread tightening the knot Isabella must untangle to finish what her mentor began.

• western
• mystery
• historical