The Shadow Appears
Now Available – Book One of Seven
Robert Hester went to war as a soldier. He returns to a world where everything he fought for is gone.
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The Shadow Grows
Now Available – Book Two of Seven
After the war, vengeance gave Robert Hester a reason to keep moving. Without it, he’s left to face something harder — himself.
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Burt Tyson
The War had taken everything Confederate Captain Robert Hester valued – his home, his family, his cause. All he had left were his horses, his guns, and his sense of honor. So he pointed his horse toward war-torn Mexico – to find his old life, a new one, or to die with neither. He didn’t much care which.
Stories of honor, courage, and redemption from the heart of the American frontier. Burt Tyson writes in the great Western tradition – heroes who ride toward danger and never lose their sense of honor.
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Two Books. One Long Ride.
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The Shadow Appears
“Robert Hester went to war as a soldier. He returns to a world where everything he fought for is gone.”
The Devil's Shadow Series
A post–Civil War epic. Seven books planned, the first two now in the world — chronicling honor, vengeance, and the slow business of becoming a man again after losing everything.
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The Shadow Grows
Word From the Trail
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I rode out to my horses and spent the night with them. They knew nothing of politics or diplomacy.
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The Shadow Appears by Burt Tyson sees Bob Hester, a Confederate, leaving a Richmond hospital under orders to help move the collapsing Confederate government.
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In The Shadow Appears by Burt Tyson, as the Confederacy collapses in the spring of 1865, wounded cavalryman Bob Hester is released from a Richmond hospital and ordered to help move government assets south.
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