The Breaking of Ezra Riley

From the author of Bitter Roots, a novel about a young man facing the challenge of his past. All his life, Ezra has felt the failure of letting down his rancher father. Now, years later, Ezra has come back to his dead father's drought-ruined Montana ranch to build a new life with his wife and son. But will the anxieties of his youth break him, or set him free?

John L. Moore is an award-winning writer whose articles and short stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. He has received the Critic's Choice for Fiction Award from Christianity Today. He lives with his family on a ranch near Miles City, Montana.