A dirt poor mother and her son who's only possession - their property is desired by an evil man. His lust for wealth drives him to stop at nothing to obtain it - causing a grieving mother the fear of never seeing her only son again.
A prison in the desert which has been closed for over a half century is mysteriously re-opened, but for what purpose? Why was the boy taken from his mother and the girl he loves - will he ever see them again? Why does Jack McCormack covet John W's worthless property so aggressively?
The prison has a 100 year old secret - with a skeletal sentinel watching over it. Who is he, and why is he there?
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Wikieup is a small, unincorporated community located on U.S. Route 93 in Mohave County, Arizona. It is located approximately 37 miles south of Interstate 40 and approximately 124 miles northwest of Phoenix, Arizona. In 2000, the population of Wikieup was 305.
When Abigail married her husband, John, she was a beautiful woman, twenty years old, with a shapely figure. She was forty-seven years old now and she looked sixty. Three days short of her thirtieth birthday, she had her only child. They named him John Wesley Hardin after her husband. Her husband told her - and she believed him, because she wanted to believe him - that the famous gunfighter John Wesley Hardin was a distant relative of theirs. He told her that a cousin on her husband’s side was married to Hardin’s attorney brother, Joe. At least that was the story that was handed down from father to son and it was what her husband told her - and he was an honest man who never told a lie - so she believed him. She hesitated at first to name her son after the gunfighter because she didn’t want the taint of his name and reputation associated with her son, but in her life, she could be proud of very few things. She loved her son and deep down inside her, the one thing she could be proud of with certainty was they were related to a famous man.
When her husband died suddenly of a heart attack, they lost their sixty acres of land because she had no way of keeping up with the mortgage on the property. William Hayes was the man who held their mortgage and he was tortured by having to evict the mother and son from their home. Hayes was an upstanding Christian man who felt genuinely sorry for her and the boy. He spent sleepless nights thinking of a way for them to keep their home and property, but it was to no avail.
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Already translated.
Translated by Pedro Pablo Perez Aguero
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