In Rio Bonito, the second volume in Spur Award-winner Preston Lewis's Three Rivers Trilogy on the Lincoln County War, Wes Bracken refuses to align himself with either feuding faction, earning him the enmity of both. Even in standing tall for what's right, Bracken is called a vigilante, a rustler, and a murderer as he seeks to protect his family and neighbors from marauding bands of outlaws in the lawless New Mexico Territory.
Justice isn't blind in Lincoln County; it's dead and buried like the victims of the bitter vendetta. Just to survive Bracken must battle both the law and the lawless. And throughout it all, Bracken stands in the growing shadow of his sometime pal, Billy the Kid."