The Only Doctor in Copper Gulch
Chapter 3 · free to read
They carried the boy down the hill on a door. He lived the whole way — spite of the rock, spite of the man who owned it.
She'd expected him at dawn. He came at dusk instead — the hour a man comes to collect.
One breath to choose: the roof over her dying father, or the boy behind her. Rourke had built the trap so there was no third door.
Three days to fight a man who owned the town — with a dying father, a crippled boy, and a foreman who'd just chosen a side.
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