THE EMPTY PORCH: Winds of Hawthorn Ridge
E-BOOK
A stolen legacy.
A girl who won’t stay silent. Dakota Territory, 1847. When seventeen-year-old Maggie Hawthorn loses her father and brothers to a brutal ambush, she’s left with nothing but grief—and a farmhouse the railroad claims is no longer hers.
Evicted by a forged lease and a company man with too-clean boots, Maggie and her mother are forced into town, strangers in a place that once called them kin. But Maggie won’t go quietly. With nothing but her father’s old ledger and a burning sense of injustice, Maggie begins a quiet war against Union Dominion Rail & Freight.
A young Eastern lawyer named Daniel Mercer believes her. His brother Elias, a hardened ex-marshal, doesn’t. Sheriff Clyde Harlan, worn down and wounded, wants to help—but the law in Hawthorn Ridge isn’t written in ink.
It’s written in blood. And when the railroad sends in Silas Black—a smiling man with knives and no soul—Maggie’s resistance becomes a matter of survival. Torn between duty, danger, and unexpected desire, Maggie must decide how far she’s willing to go to defend her family’s name. Some fights are won with bullets. Others with fire.
But the truest victories are written in grit. If you loved the emotional strength of Where the Crawdads Sing, the slow-burn romance of Nicholas Sparks, and the historic heart of Lonesome Dove, you’ll fall hard for The Empty Porch.
