Canyon War

Dr. Rebekah LaRoche, a 34-year-old physician, has spent years riding across the American West treating patients, and she has learned to handle hardship. On her way to New Mexico Territory, a planned stop in Amarillo, Texas, draws her into a dispute with the Baxters, a family of four brothers with a reputation for trouble. Cattle rancher Clem Baxter is fighting a private battle over grazing land in Palo Duro Canyon, and the fight ends badly, leaving one of his brothers seriously wounded.

Clem wants a doctor for his brother, but he gets a woman instead when Rebekah arrives at the ranch. She goes by Doc Beck, a name that has helped her earn trust before her patients learn she is a woman. Once she is at the ranch she is held against her will, and she has to find a way to escape with a young companion through the rugged canyon, where the landscape is as hazardous as the men pursuing them.

Rebekah is of Omaha Indian and French descent. Her skill with people and her sharp wits have carried her through danger before, but this time she must outthink men who will fight to the death over a stretch of land.

Canyon War is the first book in the Doc Beck Westerns, a series of twelve books, and a boxset collects the first four. The series follows Rebekah as she travels the frontier in the 1890s, treating the sick and solving problems beyond her medical work, while she searches for a place to belong.