“A romance in the middle of a really good Western novel.” – Roundup Magazine Character Profile: Marco Mondragón The Spanish brand series was Marco’s story from the beginning, mainly because I “found” him in an obscure footnote in a Spanish borderlands history, which boiled down to this: “In the absence of sufficient law enforcement on the frontier of 18th century New Mexico, a royal colony, the juez de campo [brand inspector] also investigates petty crime.” In The Double Cross, Marco is a man still bereft, after eight years and the shocking death of his entire family from cholera, while he was…
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