Voyage Media presents... Esperanza. A western scripted audio drama, about a pacifist who must bring in a killer, that tempts him to break his code. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chapter Four of Esperanza spotlights the murderer Jack Naples as he explains to the young and impressionable Ned Williamson that anyone who thinks Naples embodies evil is a coward and lying to themself. Bruce stands for objective good, but will not bend in his methods and means to justify peaceful and quiet ends.

Chapter Five of Esperanza follows our characters as they race against each other, and time, to prove their points of view and seal them with blood.

Chapter Three of Esperanza pits the pacifist deputy Bruce Carter against the wild and unpredictable murderer, Jack Naples. Arrested and searching for any openings out of bondage, Naples pries at Carter’s pacifism and attempts to force his hand into using violence once again - even if it's against himself.

Chapter Two of Esperanza brings us out into the distant cattle ranches of New Mexico and into the wild lands across the red river and into the mountains. The men weigh the dangers of arresting the murderer against the finality of killing him on sight.

Chapter One of Esperanza introduces Bruce Carter, a soldier in the US Army fighting in the Apache wars during the 1870s, and the events that lead him to a life of pacifism. But nearly a decade later when his farm is struggling to pay its debts to the bank, Bruce is offered a chance to track down a killer for a sizable bounty. All he has to do is pick up his gun.