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n the years after the Civil War, the American West was not yet tame — and neither was the faith that followed it.

The Circuit Rider Mysteries follow Reverend Elias Cane, a Methodist minister who rides the frontier on horseback, carrying the Gospel to towns too small, too rough, or too forgotten to have a church of their own. A former Union cavalry sergeant, Cane came to God on a battlefield and has never quite left the battlefield behind. He sees what others miss. He asks questions quietly and persistently until the truth has nowhere left to hide. And wherever he rides — into revival tents and desert missions, silver mines and cattle towns — he finds that sin leaves tracks as readable as boot prints in fresh mud.

Cane is not a hard-boiled detective. He is something rarer: a man who genuinely believes in mercy, has seen enough of the world to know what it costs, and keeps riding anyway.

Each book in the series stands alone. Together they form a portrait of a man, a faith, and an era.