Hal couldn't remember his mother at all, but he did remember his father, Savor Mull, who had taught him to ride saddle horses and shoot a Henry rifle and rope calves well enough to win two junior team roping titles. Orphaned at ten, Hal grew into a cautious, pensive man, and the people who know him best see it as his flaw. His Aunt Henrietta, who raised him and "didn't put no stock in rodeo," said he was the only man she ever knew who went to war to avoid a fight. His best friend thinks he's a coward. The woman he lives with wants to know what it takes to make him mad. And the girl who falls...
Hal couldn't remember his mother at all, but he did remember his father, Savor Mull, who had taught him to ride saddle horses and shoot a Henry rifle ...
