In his new novel, The Baron Range, Spur Award-winning author Jory Sherman continues the gritty, exhilarating story of the Baron Family. Years ago Martin Baron came to Texas with the dream of building a cattle empire. Now, savage floods and battles with the Apache threaten both his hopes and the lives of his family and ranch hands. Even more menacing than the environment, however, are the powerful desires and furies of the people determined to make a place for themselves beneath the stormy Texas sky.

Anson Baron has just turned seventeen when Mickey Bone, an Apache, rides away to rejoin his tribe. More than anything, Anson wants to go with him -- away from his mother's melancholy secrecy and his father's bitter commands. He sees himself traveling, alone with his horse, across the rugged plains and into a dangerous and exciting world where his father's strict rules would no longer keep him tethered like an animal.

Anson Baron is about to get his wish. Despite hardship and uncertainty, it is time for him to come of age and learn the truth about his family's past in an unforgiving land. A land where betrayal slays as surely as the wide, spearlike horns of the cattle whose brutal stampedes flatten the thick mesquite brush.

Genre: Western