BOOK #1 in the Pigeon-toed Horse Mysteries For Collin Mitchell, there is no peace. After a year of fighting renegade Utes, in the Black Hawk War, he returns to Salt Lake City, in the fall of 1868, hoping to forget the killing. Haunted by the brutality of his past, Mitchell hangs up his guns and prepares his family for a move to a quieter place. Brother Brigham Young, however, has other plans for the reformed gunman and charges Mitchell with the task of recovering a missing girl. Unwilling to refuse the request of his friend and spiritual leader, Mitchell gathers his family and rides north to investigate. But what absolution can there be for a man caught between the violence of his past and the religion he loves? Old enemies want Mitchell dead, and in the small Mormon town of Ogden, they lie in wait to destroy Mitchell and his family. Caught in a storm of lethal violence, Mitchell struggles to unravel a mystery of the missing girl. But to save his family, Mitchell must resurrect the destroyer within and steel himself to stand or die in the shadows of the Wasatch Mountains.