Three Word Brand

A father’s final exhale becomes the Big Bang for two diverging universes: one boy is swaddled in civic pomp, the other in alkali dust. The bullet that kills Ben Trego splits destiny itself—Paul Marsden ascends to Utah’s gubernatorial chair, while his mirror, known only by the laconic moniker Three Word Brand, carves justice out of sagebrush with a Colt and a cattle iron. Their parallel orbits collide when a hydraulic despot engineers a drought to steal water and votes alike; Brand, sensing the uncanny symmetry in the governor’s bone structure, kidnaps his own reflection and steps into the marble halls of power. The masquerade is no mere stunt—it is a moral inversion: the outlaw becomes law, the lawman becomes captive audience to his own ghost. Reckoning ricochets through sandstone canyons and gilded chambers until blood answers blood, and the brothers—still strangers—discover that identity is just another frontier to be homesteaded.