Guns Beneath the Pulpit: A Western Novel of Vengeance, Redemption, and Frontier Justice.($14.99Value)

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Deacon Carter was seventeen when he rode home to find his world destroyed. His mother and sister were dead. The men responsible were still there. By sundown, Deacon had killed them, burned the house behind him, and ridden west with his father’s Bible in his saddlebag and vengeance burning through his soul. For years, Deacon drifts across the frontier, living by one hard rule: Let the bad men make the first move. Then send them to judgment. From Deadwood to the dust-blown trails of the West, he becomes a dangerous man with a growing reputation. He kills thieves, brutes, gunmen, and killers—but every body he leaves behind takes him no closer to peace. Then he comes to Prosperity, Arizona Territory. There, Deacon buries his old name and becomes Preacher Jacob Parker , a quiet man determined to build something better than the bloody life he left behind. For three years, he helps mend a forgotten church, earns the trust of a hard little town, and tries to live as if Deacon Carter is finally dead. But when Nathan Bogue and his gang ride into Prosperity hungry for money, fear, and control, Jacob’s past comes rising from beneath the pulpit. The town needs a preacher. The innocent need protection. And Jacob must decide whether picking up his guns again will damn him—or whether refusing to protect the innocent would be the greater sin. Gritty, violent, and morally charged, Guns Beneath the Pulpit is a Western novel of vengeance, redemption, frontier justice, and the terrible cost of becoming a better man.