New Mexico, 1887, a land in the midst of the worst drought anyone can remember. Jesus Lopez is a man with a secret and he struggles to keep low profile as he works for the Running F ranch. But a feud is simmering between his foreman, Shad Marone, and their nearest neighbor. Against his will, Lopez is drawn deeper and deeper, until anger leads to revenge and revenge to betrayal. Soon Lopez is locked in jail, accused by the very man he was coming to trust.

But when the cycle of violence explodes into murder, the County Sheriff must turn to Lopez to track down his Marone. With few options and little hope for freedom, Lopez risks everything on a daring plan: a devil's bargain with the law, his enemies, and the Jornada del Muerto desert, that will either kill him or set him free.

With a propulsive script from Beau L’Amour and Kathy Nolan, adapted by Charles Santino and illustrated in bold black-and-white by Thomas Yeates, Law of the Desert Born captures the dust and blood of Louis L’Amour’s West—a world where the difference between a hero and a villain can be as wide as the gap between an act of kindness or brutality or as narrow as a misspoken word.