long-missing sister. And Jed Albright's chance encounter with her outside a cowtown depot draws the railway mail clerk into a perilous web of lies, treachery, and vengeance. Soon, he's a man on the run with a price on his head. Sun Dog Memory is the Depression era saga of a family at war with itself, twenty years after their boom and bust struggles ended bitterly on the vast Kansas plain. The question for Jed, can he outrun his past and a determined killer in a race on the rails from dust bowl Kansas to the steamy streets of New Orleans?