FROM A RAZED COURTHOUSE

Don Porter's debut novel, Notes From a Razed Courthouse, is set in an era when America itself was coming of age. In this richly textured, provocative tale of the Old West, four young workers on the transcontinental railroad join forces to create a freight express company that promises dollars and perils in equal measure. Their dreams of wealth collide with stark reality when one of them finds himself on trial in a very unfriendly town, charged with the murder of his missing partner and facing the gallows.