The Madstone

Sobre el libro The Madstone de Elizabeth Crook publicado por Bedford Press al 2024:

The return of the Western in this poignant love story and riveting on the road adventure. Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he sees a stagecoach leave a passenger stranded. The man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the coach, drawing him into a drama he could never have imagined. On reaching the coach they discover that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her four-year-old son, Tot, who are fleeing Nells brutal husband and his murderous brothers.