The Borrowed Rifle

The Standing Ground, Book 1

By: Emmett Laramie

Narrated by: Dana Christie

When a stranger arrives in a quiet frontier town, he intends to pass through unnoticed. Instead, he finds himself standing between a frightened boy, a borrowed rifle, and a secret powerful men cannot afford to let survive the night.

As tensions rise and the town fractures under pressure, one man’s refusal to step aside forces everyone to choose where they stand.

Not between good and evil—but between silence and consequence.

The Borrowed Rifle is a restrained Western novella about public choices, moral pressure, and the cost of standing still when violence asks for permission.

This is not a gunfight story.

It is a story about what happens before the gun is raised—and what remains after.

©2026 Emmett Laramie (P)2026 Emmett Laramie