Horseman, Pass by by Larry McMurtry
Hud Bannon was as tough as the Texas land he lived on. Women were drawn to him like pins to a magnet. The boy Lonnie made an idol of him. But was he a rapist? Only two people never bowed to the force of his personality; his father Homer and the woman Halmea. Now, Hud is determined to conquer them too, at any cost.