Gary Stuart – författare

In the summer of 1901 in the Iron Mountain area of Wyoming, someone shot from ambush and killed a fourteen-year old boy. The kill shot hit him in the back and knocked him o his dad''s horse. Some thought Tom Horn did it. They narrowed the search down to him, and got him to confess, they said. He never said. His arrest, trial and execution by hanging commenced a controversy that roared through the Rocky Mountains for over 100 years. That true story is the historical predicate for this novel.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Angus is sent from Colorado up to the Iron Mountain area near Laramie Wyoming to track down the truth of Tom Horn''s so-called confession. He knows a little about Tom Horn''s legend-in-the making. He''s heard the stories-that Horn claimed, "Killing men is my specialty. I look at it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market."

Tom Horn''s confession involved a concealed stenographer hiding behind a door while an ambitious lawman lured a drunk Tom Horn to leave the territory by offering him a good job in Montana. Angus read the stenographer''s version. Horn allegedly said, "It was the best shot that I ever made and the dirtiest trick I ever done."

But Tom Horn''s friends insist he didn''t do it and never gave a confession. A lawman gone rogue made it up to advance his political career. The real question-guilt or innocence-got lost in the shuffle. Angus rides the Iron Mountain area in search for the truth. He found it when he himself had to solve another murder by ambush. He solves that murder in a way no one in the American West could imagine.

Vivian was just seventeen and in a hurry to get out of high school at the start of this series. She had a list of "wants." She wanted to disappear. She wanted her father to get out of the Witness Protection Program and she wanted her younger brother, Vince, to leave her alone. No one had ever seen Vivian and Vince simultaneously. Some thought she made him up. She became living proof you are who you say you are. She wanted to write a book about herself and family secrets.

She finished her book and disappeared. At least she said she did. Along the way, Vince seems to have stolen her soul, along with her identity. That psychological trauma begat Vinessa. She''s more worldly, and wealthy, but still afflicted with a mental disorder she cannot fathom. A vile creature they call Julia Baby surfaces after killing her father. Vince thinks he''s now in charge and doesn''t want Vivian writing any more books. Vinessa knows about both. The hunt is on. They eliminate Julia Baby.

Back in Phoenix, Arizona, after traveling the world, Vinessa is under treatment for Dissociative Identity Disorder. She keeps Vince, her altered state at bay. She allows Garrison, her mental health counselor to move into her home. Vince shows up to save her and himself. He badly underestimates Garrison, who does his level best to eliminate Vivian, Vince and Vinessa. They have no idea how upside down their shared memories are about to become.