The Mexican army, a town marshal, and the Sancho Guerra gang are facing off when Doctor Rebekah LaRoche and her new friend, Jimmy, arrive in Zapata, New Mexico Territory. The bandits are holding hostages at Hope Academy, a school for girls located in an old mission outside of town, and Rebekah feels compelled to act-she was sent to the school to modernize the infirmary, not see the innocent occupants murdered.

The notorious and charismatic bandit, Sancho Guerra, led his band of men on a pillaging spree from Mexico to the mission and has proven his indifference to killing, prepared for any tricks the army or the Zapata town marshal throw at him.

But he isn’t prepared for Rebekah, and now the Mexican army colonel wants her to do something terrifying-enter the mission and help with the capture of the deadliest men in the territory.

Once inside the mission’s adobe walls, the game of wits turns personal with Sancho Guerra, becoming a battle burning with an intensity Rebekah may not be able to handle on her own-and may not even survive.

About the Doc Beck Westerns series:

Doctor Rebekah LaRoche is known as Doc Beck, which gets her foot in doors before they slam in her face because she’s a woman. A sophisticated spitfire with remarkable people skills, a foot in the door is all Rebekah needs to do her job. But the work doesn’t fill the longing in her heart for a place to truly call home-and someone beyond herself to believe in.

Books in the series:

Canyon War (Book 1)

Mission Bandits (Book 2)

Grave Robbers (Book 3)