The Law of Savage (Savage Legacy Book 1)

THE LAW OF SAVAGE
Book 1 of The Savage Legacy

Long before the Savage name became a legend, John Savage was a twenty-one-year-old Oxford student who believed the right question, properly asked, could uncover any truth.

California is about to teach him otherwise.

In 1880, tragedy brings John and Tempest Calder from England to the frontier town of Blackstone, where Tempest’s parents have been murdered at their ranch. The official story is already settled: Paiute raiders attacked the Calders and disappeared into the desert.

John has one problem with that conclusion.

The evidence doesn’t agree.

Three arrows. A burned office. A disputed mining agreement. Missing papers. Gold beneath Calder land. Witnesses who remember too little—or perhaps too much. And powerful men who would prefer an inquisitive Englishman stop asking questions.

With determined heiress Tempest Calder at his side, skeptical Sheriff Nathaniel Rusk watching his every move, newspaperman Thomas Keene recording far more than John would like, and a half-wild coyote-dog with opinions of his own, John begins pulling apart the story Blackstone has already decided to believe.

But proving a lie is only the beginning.

Because on the American frontier, evidence can reveal the truth—but it cannot make dangerous men surrender to it.

Part Western mystery, part frontier adventure, and the beginning of a multigenerational family saga, The Law of Savage tells the story of how an Oxford-educated Englishman took his first steps toward becoming one of the West’s most unlikely lawmen.

Before the legend came the law.