A standalone that transplants the First Law world into a Western - wagon trains, frontier towns, and the slow encroachment of civilisation onto lawless territory. Shy South is trying to build a quiet life when her farm is attacked and her younger siblings taken. She goes after them with her stepfather Lamb, a quiet, gentle man with scarred hands and a past he won't discuss. Readers of the trilogy will recognise Lamb. Red Country is Abercrombie's most emotionally direct novel, and the one that earns its sentimentality most honestly.