No Water North (Conn Maddox Series)

One man owns the only water for forty miles. The rest of the country is dying of thirst.

When Conn Maddox rides down off the Rim, he wants nothing but water for his horse and a road south. What he finds is a town with its head down — a place where one man's hold on a single spring has fenced out the small ranchers, bought the law, and taught everybody to keep quiet. No raids. No gunsmoke. Just the slow closing of a hand.

It's no affair of a drifting man, and Conn knows it. He's ridden past hard country before. But a widow holding her place alone, an old man carrying a long shame, and a boy learning what kind of man to be all get under his guard — and the man who owns the water means to keep it, whatever it costs.

If there's a way to break the thing without firing a shot, Conn means to find it. But when the fences and the paper fail, the man who owns the water will reach for the gun he swore he'd never need.

No Water North is a clean, traditional Western — no profanity, no graphic violence, no explicit content — spare and fast-moving, built on honor and hard choices. For readers who love the old-fashioned Western: a competent stranger, a town worth saving, and justice earned the hard way.

The first Conn Maddox Western.