The rancher wants a bear dead. The tracks say the bear is not the problem.

Spring in northwest Montana, and a rancher's calves are dying in the mud. Dale Halvorsen wants a bear dead and the paperwork to say so. Game warden Ryder Lane wants the truth, and the tracks are telling a different story than the rancher is. Then a contractor nobody admits calling pulls up at the gate. His name is Hale. He moves without a sound, speaks like every word is set down whole, and says only that he is a man who hunts bears. One cold night in a pasture. One report Ryder will not change. The first meeting of Ryder Lane and Hale. A free prequel to The Ryder Lane Chronicles.

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