Cottonwood (western Series)

The man who got off the stagecoach in Cottonwood didn't fit the description of the U.S. Deputy Marshal Earl Burke was waiting for — and he wasn't that man. But when the imposter U.S. Deputy Marshal‚ teamed up with Earl Burke in a hunt for bushwhackers‚ Earl discovered something: some men just seem to attract trouble‚ and Ed Carpenter was such a man. By the time Ed Carpenter and Earl Burke got several related crimes sorted out‚ Earl was sore from one end to the other — and he was almighty tired of being around a deputy U.S. Marshal.