{"id":534,"date":"2026-05-01T10:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/?page_id=534"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:11:43","slug":"elementor-534","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/?page_id=534","title":{"rendered":"Play for Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"534\" class=\"elementor elementor-534\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-813e7d8 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"813e7d8\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7e68f0b0 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7e68f0b0\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1c9b84de elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"1c9b84de\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"1022\" src=\"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PlayforBloodFLAT_edited-641x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-529\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PlayforBloodFLAT_edited-641x1024.jpg 641w, https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PlayforBloodFLAT_edited-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PlayforBloodFLAT_edited-768x1227.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/PlayforBloodFLAT_edited.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f0ddacb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7f0ddacb\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61230e49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61230e49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Cotton Smith<\/p><p><strong>Publisher:\u00a0<\/strong>Wolfpack Publishing<\/p><p><strong>Published:\u00a0<\/strong>April 14, 2026<\/p><p>Scott F. Smith, son of acclaimed western author Cotton Smith, returns with another hard-hitting chapter in the Corrigan Brothers saga.<\/p><p>Texas Ranger Holt Corrigan has faced rustlers, killers, and more gunfights than most men survive. But he has never hunted anyone like Calista Theriot. A legendary river pirate turned frontier power broker, Calista has left the waterways behind and ridden into Texas cattle country with a bold new prize in mind. The booming Texas railroad trade.<\/p><p>Beautiful, ruthless, and cunning as any cardsharp, Calista does more than rob men. She ruins them. With newspapers spreading lies and her gang ready to spill blood, she is turning towns against Holt and the people he holds dear. To stop her, Holt must outplay a woman who treats every scheme like a high-stakes poker game and always plays for blood.<\/p><p>Can Holt Corrigan beat the most dangerous gambler in Texas before Calista Theriot takes everything he is sworn to protect?<\/p><p>Order your copy on <a href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/08HazZ9d\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ride-Away-Classic-Corrigan-Brothers-ebook\/dp\/B0D9YWW312\/ref=pd_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0?pd_rd_w=s40eS&amp;content-id=amzn1.sym.352fa4e9-2aa8-47c3-b5ac-8a90ddbece20%3Aamzn1.symc.40e6a10e-cbc4-4fa5-81e3-4435ff64d03b&amp;pf_rd_p=352fa4e9-2aa8-47c3-b5ac-8a90ddbece20&amp;pf_rd_r=P6RRD37Y04CM2KR2QKNT&amp;pd_rd_wg=TjpdO&amp;pd_rd_r=39497385-238c-4472-b2ad-f157291298d9&amp;pd_rd_i=B0D9YWW312\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0today!<\/p><p><a class=\"maxbutton-3 maxbutton maxbutton-buy-now-button\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/a.co\/d\/08HazZ9d\"><span class='mb-text'>Buy Now!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author:\u00a0Cotton Smith Publisher:\u00a0Wolfpack Publishing Published:\u00a0April 14, 2026 Scott F. Smith, son of acclaimed western author Cotton Smith, returns with another hard-hitting chapter in the Corrigan Brothers saga. Texas Ranger Holt Corrigan has faced rustlers, killers, and more gunfights than most men survive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":453,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-534","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534\/revisions\/552"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsmithwesterns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}