What Becomes Of A Name (The Charlie Randall Chronicles, Band 2) - Softcover

Adams, Scott E

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798993984971

Verlag: Scott Adams Enterprises, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

In the winter of 1899, Cross Fork, Pennsylvania is booming.

Timber money pours in, rail lines run hot, and the town along Kettle Creek has outgrown its reputation as a temporary camp. Hotels are full. Games run late. And men who understand risk are welcomed-so long as they play by the right rules.

Charlie Randall is a gambler who knows when to hold, when to fold, and when to walk away. Arriving in Cross Fork looking for opportunity, he finds a town that offers plenty-cards, money, and the illusion of choice. But beneath the clatter of chips and the polite nods of powerful men lies something else entirely: a system that remembers refusal.

As Charlie navigates high-stakes games, quiet warnings, and offers that sound like protection, he begins to understand how Cross Fork truly works. When his companion, Maddy Pike, finds herself drawn closer to the town's inner circles, the cost of staying becomes harder to ignore-and leaving far more dangerous than it appears.

This is a story about pressure applied gently. About debts that don't disappear when a man does. And about a town that doesn't stop a person from leaving, it simply makes sure they remember why they shouldn't.

What Becomes of a Name is a tense, atmospheric work of historical fiction set in a Pennsylvania lumber town at the height of its power, where survival depends not on winning the game, but on knowing when the game has changed.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Scott Adams Enterprises
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798993984971
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274
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