One foolish cowboy. One stubborn donkey. A small town with big problems.

Welcome to Dry Heave, Arizona, where common sense is scarce, trouble is plentiful, and the most unlikely hero in the Wild West may be a man who can barely manage his own life.

When notorious outlaw Two-Gun McGraw steals Mayor Wiggins’s prized donkey, Bocephus, a thousand-dollar reward brings Don-Key into the adventure of a lifetime. Armed with questionable logic, an unreliable horse named Dammit, and an extraordinary talent for making bad situations worse, Don-Key sets off to recover the missing animal.

Along the way, he encounters Daisy, a sharp-witted saloon owner with ambitions of her own; Silas, an eccentric wilderness man; Ezekiel, a sensitive wolf with confidence issues; and a gang of outlaws who are about to discover that donkeys can be far more troublesome than they appear.

Packed with absurd plans, outrageous characters, unexpected friendships, and classic Western chaos, DON-KEY: A Novel of the Old West is a light-hearted comic adventure about courage, stubbornness, and the surprising ways an ordinary fool can make a difference.

Sometimes, the greatest hero isn’t the smartest person in town.

Sometimes, he’s just the one who refuses to give up—and has a donkey who refuses to move.