| Summary: | "An orphaned Montana ranch hand takes in the mute seven-year-old son of an incarcerated cousin and learns to love him as old grievances involving land and family come back to haunt them." --
Ranch hand Wendell Newman has recently lost his mother. His bank account holds less than a hundred dollars, and he owes back taxes and his mother's medical bills. Seven-year-old Rowdy Burns, the illegitimate son of Wendell's incarcerated, addicted cousin, is mute and damaged. During the first legal wolf hunt in Montana in more than thirty years, when a murder results in a manhunt, Wendell finds himself on the wrong side of a disaffected fringe group. Can he protect Rowdy, and avoid the same violent fate that claimed his own father? -- adapted from jacket
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