Five hundred head of stolen cattle. A vengeful Apache war party. One man caught in the crossfire.

Drifting west after the blood-soaked events of Texas Revenge, former U.S. Marshal Eldridge Sample is looking for a quiet trail. Instead, he finds a column of black smoke rising from the Pecos River valley.

The Lazy J ranch has been liquidated-the family slaughtered, the dogs clubbed, and the herd driven west by "Big Red" Kilgore, a ruthless rustler with a government contract in his pocket. Wearing a blood-stained Texas Ranger star that doesn't belong to him, Sample rides into the jagged badlands of the New Mexico Territory to deliver a reckoning.

But the desert has other plans.

A chance encounter in a blind canyon leaves an Apache chief's son dead at Sample's feet, turning the hunter into the hunted. Now, caught between Kilgore's fifteen guns ahead and Chato's relentless war party behind, Sample must run a deadly gauntlet through the Devil's Spine.

To survive, he'll have to turn his enemies against each other. From a dust-choked stampede under the moonlight to a brutal three-way siege at a corrupt Army fort, Sample wages a private war where the only law is gravity and the only currency is lead.

"It's not stealing. It's probate."

Gritty, atmospheric, and relentless, Arizona Trail is a masterclass in frontier tension.