Bullets fly high in the Neversummer Mountains.

Anders Nordic and his loyal collie, Finn, are holed up in a remote line shack in Colorado's rugged Neversummer Mountains, doing what they do best—living alone and staying alive. Hired by rancher Garth Deveraux to deal with rustlers, Nordic's been picking them off like ducks on a mill pond. It's a job that earns him enemies fast, and keeping settlers off the range is part of the deal.

When a farming family from Nordic's home territory of Dakota—strangers to these parts—arrives with a pregnant daughter, Nordic faces a brutal choice: turn them away or risk the wrath of his employer, Garth Deveraux, and the sadistic foreman, Wayne Bitterman. Nordic has to choose: protect the innocent, or follow orders.

Then Deveraux's daughter returns from her East Coast schooling—and promptly falls for Nordic. Their forbidden romance only adds fuel to the fire.

Then murder strikes. The pioneer family is wiped out—except for the young mother and her newborn, now under Nordic's reluctant protection. As tensions rise and bullets fly across the high-country range, Nordic finds himself in the center of a violent cattle war, hunted by men on both sides.

The mountain winds howl. The rifles crack. But the man from Dakota doesn't flinch.

Can Nordic survive betrayal, bloodshed, and forbidden love—or will the mountains claim him for good? Saddle up and ride into book two of the explosive Nordic & Finn saga!