Those long days and nights on the cattle drive are a breeze for Jesse Stalls compared to the mistakes he's made and now has to live with.
Jesse longs to leave home and the family farm. At eighteen years old, he can't wait to see what the world offers away from Booneville.
He and his friend, Billy Cantrell, purchase Colt .45 revolvers while waiting for a cattle drive to come along.
After months on the plains, the cattle drive from Omaha ends at Fort Worth. Jesse finds himself in a gunfight with a man named Max Toliver. When the smoke clears, Toliver lay dead. Jesse takes a bullet in the shoulder but finds himself tagged as the latest fast gun.
The journey brings Jesse face to face with Mexican bandits who've abducted three women. During the conflict, he meets a beautiful young woman, Hanna Elrod. Their relationship grows, but Hanna soon realizes that struggles with the gunfight linger at the center of Jesse's thoughts. As his faith plummets, she keeps praying, refusing to give up on him.
Prodigal Trail is the saga of a young man's determination to leave home on an adventurous journey that turns treacherous.
Can the woman Jesse's fallen in love with persuade him to lean on God and his loving earthly father? Or are his trials too overwhelming, even for her?
How many must die by Jesse's gun before he realizes the answer he needs is God?