The Silent Pass

Montana Territory, 1870.Cavalryman Rodney Hale has followed orders across the frontier, but during a brutal raid, he finally reaches his breaking point. When he refuses to fire on innocent people and abandons his regiment, Rodney becomes a deserter—and a hunted man.With his black gelding, Rowdy, as his only companion, Rodney disappears into the mountains, hoping the wilderness can hide him from the soldiers closing in behind. But winter is coming fast. Food is scarce. The rivers are freezing. And the deeper Rodney travels into the Gallatin high country, the more the land itself begins to test him.Behind him rides Pike, a ruthless officer determined to bring Rodney back—or make sure he never reaches civilization.Ahead lies an unnamed mountain crossing and the possibility of another life.But Rodney soon discovers that distance cannot erase the things a man has done.A tense and atmospheric Western novella about survival, guilt, loyalty, and redemption, The Silent Pass follows one man's desperate journey through the Montana wilderness as he tries to decide whether a person can truly leave his past behind.