Dust on the Bible

A tense standoff unfolds in the dusty town of San Miguel, where Preacher Elias Creed shelters Judd Tanner, a wounded man with a dark secret. Judd confesses to killing Elias’s brother Ben over a lost silver vein in the Jornada, claiming Ben burned the map but left a carved marker as proof. As Tom Barrow and his crew back off, a new threat rides in—five hard-eyed strangers led by the scarred Reese, hunting Judd. Elias hides him in the church’s crawlspace, facing down Reese’s demand to hand him over or see the church torn apart. Caught between vengeance, loyalty, and the truth about his brother, Elias stands firm in a tinderbox town where the wind howls like a banshee and every choice could ignite a firestorm.

Eight years after chasing a killer through a storm-choked desert, Elias confronts a wounded stranger bleeding on his church floor—Judd Tanner, who claims to be the man who murdered Elias’s friend Ben. Judd spins a tale of betrayal and a mysterious promise tied to the desolate Jornada del Muerto, demanding Elias settle an old debt. As tensions simmer, a dust-worn posse storms the church, hungry for answers and vengeance. Caught between a dying man’s secrets and a town on the edge, Elias must decide who to trust—and how far he’ll go to protect a truth he’s not sure he wants to uncover.

A small-town preacher in 1880s New Mexico, once a gunslinger, takes in a wounded stranger who turns out to be his brother's killer. As a drought strangles the settlement, the townsfolk demand frontier justice, but the preacher's torn between his old trigger finger and the Good Book he barely believes anymore. The climax hits when a sandstorm buries the truth.