For a man who didn't need another disaster, the fierce winter at Broken Arrow Crossing couldn't have come at a worse time. Stuart Brannon abandoned his Arizona ranch, sick with grief after losing his wife and baby son in childbirth, as well as his cattle to disease. That's when the vicious Colorado blizzard struck. Half frozen, Brannon stumbles into the isolated stage station at the Crossing. He finds a wounded prospector and attempts to nurse the man back to health. Winter storms bring other stragglers to the station at Christmas—an abused, pregnant Indian girl and naive gold seekers. Drawn into their desperate plights, Brannon plunges forward on a dangerous mission to rescue a young boy from the Utes, and then himself as he becomes the target of an outlaw band. Written in the tradition of Zane Grey, Luke Short, and Louis L'Amour, "Hard Winter at Broken Arrow Crossing" recreates the tumultuous old West where good battles evil.