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Summary
In 1883, Arthur Morgan played a reckless hand in a dusty Mexican border town. It was supposed to be a fever-dream of tequila and trouble, but it ended with a priest’s blessing, a handful of gold coins, and a signature on a marriage certificate that tethered him to Roselyn Quintanilla.
He did what any drifter would do: he folded. He left the money, settled his black gambler’s hat low over his eyes, and rode north, leaving Roselyn to pick up the pieces of a "mistake" he assumed her family—and her Uncle Flaco—would surely erase.
But sixteen years is a long time for a debt to gather interest.
Now, the year is 1899, and the world is crashing down. The frontier is closing, Dutch is spiraling, and the Pinkertons are breathing down the gang's neck. But the greatest threat to Arthur's stoic peace isn't a lawman’s bullet—it’s the woman who never got that annulment. Roselyn is back, and she isn't the same girl he left in that hacienda.
The cards are on the table, and Arthur is fresh out of aces. In a game where every hand is a winner and every hand is a loser, he’s about to find out if he has what it takes to finally hold on—or if he’ll be forced to run until there’s nowhere left to go.
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- Part 2 of Amidst a Crashing World