MOONLIGHT MASSACRES

     When outlaws in the Nueces Strip begin to strike by the light of every full moon, Texas Ranger C.W. Wallace is dispatched to solve the problem. The callous brutality and depredations rampant in South Texas brush country threaten people in every community despite their struggle to recover from the nationwide civil strife of war and reconstruction.
     C.W.’s skills are strained as he struggles to track the criminals and stop them from stealing more cattle and killing more innocent ranching families. He rides alone and is rarely welcomed where he goes. The desperate legal measures taken by Governor Richard Coke and Captain Leander McNelly to combat these crimes by reconstituting the Texas Rangers is as controversial as the violence they aim to stop.
     Clues lead C.W. to a secretive young widow woman at an isolated homestead, but he is hesitant to trust her and the neighbor’s two unruly children in her care. He needs average people like her to support the Ranger’s spy network to expands his eyes and ears in the brush country, but can he trust her to help? In an effort to identify the ringleaders, C.W. and the widow ride break-neck across country, and illegally cross the Rio Grande into Mexico, but disaster plagues them even as his affections turn toward her.
     Can suspicions be overcome by forgiveness? Now Ranger Wallace must do all he can to prevent the murder of the widow and discover where the outlaws will strike next before the coming full moon.