Burnt Horizon: Book one of the Northumbrian Western Series

It is 2050, twenty years after The Collapse, and cross-border courier Trent is returning to his hometown for the first time in decades. He wants to wrap up a few details before he makes a big deal and finds somewhere safe to retire, somewhere away from the neo-reivers and bandits that infest the roads of Northumbria. But this short visit becomes a fight for survival as he dredges up relationships from the past and is drawn into a desperate battle with the corrupt powers that run the town.