Red Hot Leather

Jack Lane is a man caught between two worlds: the desperate, financial machinery of the urban East and the rugged, unforgiving landscape of his family's Western ranch. After a failed attempt to secure a loan to save his father’s land, Jack returns home on a train where he encounters Ellen Rand, a nurse who represents a bridge between modern civilization and the frontier. Unbeknownst to Jack, Ellen is headed to his own home to care for his father, whose health is failing under the weight of an impending foreclosure. The stakes are heightened when Morton Kane, a predatory neighbor who has secretly discovered oil on the Lane property, conspires to seize the land through sabotage. Jack’s only hope lies in the local rodeo, a high-stakes competition where his physical skill must overcome the underhanded tactics of Kane and his son. The narrative culminates in a desperate race against time and corruption, where the traditional values of the cowboy are pitted against the greed of the industrial age.