Holding the Ace Card

"Hired gun Lou Bellanger had just started his poker game when the law caught up with him. But the fastest draw in Arizona Territory managed to make a daring escape and was just starting to breathe easy when he heard the sheriff had been killed in cold blood. The last thing Lou wanted to do was go back to that hostile town and clear his name. Besides, he had a job to do--a job that ended up leading straight into an all-out range war. With a posse ready to string him up for murder at his back and a gang of bloodthirsty hardcases ahead of him, Lou better have more than an ace up his sleeve if he hopes to stay alive."@en
"Lou Ballanger is a gunfighter who has not seen his mother since she placed him with a foster family. Now remarried, with two small children, she has hired lou to help her in a range war. Judith's husband, Jamie Hudson, was badly beaten by men working for the powerful ranch that wants the Hudson's to sell out and surrender their vital water rights. The matter is complicated by the attempted assassination of the local sheriff, a crime that is blamed on Lou Bellinger, truning the town against both bellanger and the Hudsons."
"When hired gun Lou Bellanger escapes the law in a hail of gunfire, he is torn between returning to the Arizona Territory to clear his name or riding straight into an all-out range war to finish the job he has been hired to do."