A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal (The Tommy Lee Trilogy)

A Time to Kill, A Time to Heal is number three and the final episode in the Tommy Lee Trilogy which starts with Stealin' From the Neighbors and continues in The Fall Roundup. This story that takes place in eight fast moving months in 1979 is a saga of humor, intrigue, and hardship suffered by real Arizona cowboys against a backdrop of frailty of relationships and spiritual awakenings. Tommy Lee has lived a charmed life for seven years only to run into a rock wall that even his inflated ego cannot overcome. Bevin, his beautiful wife with the carrot-colored hair, is confronted with tragedy she can't avoid, and Coley, the good old hand who possesses very little except his honor and seventy years of loyal servitude, stares down the dark tunnel of old age. These three, and others, are driven to the edge of destruction by the one-eyed Ray Lewis and his gang of sociopaths and misfits. And then there is the Indian, Glen Paya, who listens and follows a different call. All of these and more comprise an anthology of characters, both good and evil, guided by unseen forces, and you won't know who wins until the end.