Death Stalks the Young Pistolero

Rafael Ortega de Estrada, the Young Pistolero, has settled back in Santa Fe to resume his life after bringing his family from the hacienda in Torreón, Mexico. Life looks bright and his plans for building a house and growing his horse breeding business are well under way. However, Death is stalking him, wanting to take him to the depths of hell.

Death teases and taunts Rafe in the wild and rowdy mining town of Elizabethtown, New Mexico, when he and his amigo Carlos Zuniga go to rescue George Summers from claim jumpers and a spring blizzard.

After Jed Clements tells Luke Payton his brother Butcherknife Bill was killed by a Mexican in the New Mexico Territory, Death pushes Luke, a notorious gambler and gunslinger, to New Mexico to find the Young Pistolero and kill him.

Smitten with beautiful Ana Teresa, a señorita from a rancho in California visiting her uncle's hacienda near Santa Fe, Rafe gets entangled with Diego de la Torre, Santa Fe's most eligible bachelor. Diego, a Spanish aristocrat, also vies for Ana Teresa's attention. Death disguises itself within the outdated Spanish casta system leaving havoc in its wake.

The Young Pistolero Series continues as Robert J. Alvarado brings his unique perspective of the Wild West from Hispanic eyes, transporting the reader to a time and place where history and fiction collide.