The thunderclap of gunfire and the smashing window cut him off. Dollar dived out of his chair and put a hand into his jacket pocket, fumbling for the Derringer pistol, his heart and lungs seizing up.The Marshal was already at the door, pistol in hand, before Dollar could breathe. He swung it wide open and raised his .45. Through the opening, Dollar saw a cloud of white smoke, lit by the moonlight, floating to the ground in the alley across the street. Nearer to the door, at the foot of the steps, lay Mr. Gamble.“God help us,” Thomas whispered.When cattleman Jack Gamble is murdered by cattle thieves in the West Texas town of Fellshort, his wife, Lindsey, and daughters, Ellen and Brandy, are left with only their wits and two young cowboys to keep their ranching dreams alive. Friends desert them, the law turns a blind eye, and the gang of rustlers who killed Mr. Gamble stalks them at every turn.Then, out of Jack's shadowy past, a hired gunman named Dealon Perry arrives and offers help. To save their ranch-and their lives-the Gambles will be forced to trust him.Deceit and death are met by love and loyalty during Five Days in Fellshort, a story of ranchers, rustlers, cowboys and gunman in the last days of the Texas frontier.