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"Beaten and humiliated, young Richard Hamilton is dropped, bound and filthy, onto the deck of Dave Green's boat, the Maria. In no time, he's looking into the barrel of Green's pistol as the trader contemplates shooting the worthless philosopher as a means of motivating his men. Captured by Packrat, Heals Like A Willow dreams of the White Mist Dog and fights a battle of wits with the Pawnee as he transports her eastward in search of his father. Meanwhile, Richard begins to discover something inside himself, but he's still dedicated to escaping the Maria and making his way back to Boston. All of which comes to a head when he and Travis run headlong into Willow and Packrat. For both Willow and Richard, Maria's hard ascent up the Missouri becomes a journey of discovery; but danger lurks on all sides as scheming boatmen, desperate Native chiefs, and passions of the heart all conspire to destroy them. In the end, Willow will make a choice that will change her and Richard's lives forever"--Page 4 of cover.

Wayne Dundee's hard-nosed, hell-bent for justice Lone McGantry rides again with an unforgettable cast of characters and a walloping of action sure to knock you back a step or two, pard!After intervening in an attempted coach robbery on the outskirts of North Platte, Nebraska, Lone learns the two men he rescued are friends of Buffalo Bill Cody who has gone missing under mysterious circumstances somewhere in western Nebraska. Lone, a former army scout and tracker, is solicited to locate him. Helping Lone is an old frontiersman named Arizona Burke, also a friend of Cody. On the fringe of the Wildcat Hills, the pair are confronted by renegade Ghost Dancer Indians and also encounter a gang of Kansas outlaws in the area for mysterious reasons. Before long, female bounty hunter and friend of McGantry's Velda Beloint joins the pursuit.Before it's all said and done, a showdown the likes of which none have ever witnessed takes place. For Lone McGantry and his posse, the stakes are about as high as they've ever been in this action-packed adventure through the Wild, Wild West.Lightning-fast action, adventure, and intrigue await Lone around every corner on the trail...

No matter where one travels in Texas, at practically any time of the year, in cities large and small, some things remain constant: livestock shows, rodeos, and football-and Chef Mia Ellis rejects them all. With a Culinary Arts degree as proof that a cosmopolitan lifestyle awaits her, Mia sublets her Houston apartment and buys a plane ticket to New York City, only to get a call to come home to the Hill Country for a family emergency.Upon arrival, Mia finds herself completely unprepared for the town and the people she has outgrown. Her salvation is cooking-it's the only thing that has ever separated her from her hometown roots-but now that her job in N.Y.C. is on hold, she still needs to earn. Unfortunately, a dishwashing gig at an out-of-the-way bar and grill is all that's available.It isn't until Mia reconnects with Jace, her old high school sweetheart and heir to a Texas Century Ranch, that she realizes she may still have a taste for Texas after all.

"The Oregon Territory village of Brookside sees further violence as the lone constable fights to keep law and order in the second novel in the continuing series of life during Oregon's wild frontier period. The year is 1848. The pace is Brookside, Oregon Territory. The great migration from east to west is just getting underway following favorable comments on Oregon weather, farming, and ranching land in the eastern press. There are those in the Brookside Valley who are dead set against the immigrants. There are those who favor the movement. And there are those who take advantage of the newcomers. Worst of all, good people die. The Brookside constable's office is a one-man affair, and Constable Kennedy is alone as the population explodes, crime explodes, and he is denied the ability to hire deputies. Some of his time is taken up by the delightful Widow Creighton. The one man standing in the way of Constable Kennedy getting help is beaten, robbed, and killed, and Kennedy is blamed. It's a big question whether he will survive this attack on his reputation"--

Award-winning author Irene Bennett Brown's classic, compelling story of love and sacrifice in the face of adversity.Clare Hobb is plagued by the strict boundaries her iron-handed uncles impose at Hobbs' Mills, the family conclave. She's in love with Larkin Wade, a handsome farmer they disdain. When an unfortunate accident takes the life of one of her uncles, the remaining brothers blame Clare's mentally deficient father, forcing the family to make the tough decision to leave the only home they've ever known. Guilt that she might have helped prevent the accident brings Clare to painfully end her romance with Larkin and pledge full attention to her family. With ties broken, Larkin departs for the west.Would a new life in Kansas where Larkin has gone ahead be the answer? Will he wait? Is it possible, ever, to bargain true love away?"Irene Bennett Brown has put heart, soul, and historical detail in her story of love and sacrifice in 19th century New Hampshire and Kansas. Read The Bargain." Lucia St. Clair Robson, bestselling author of The Shadow Patriot"The Bargain is a powerful novel about moral and spiritual courage, and offers radiant insight into how lives are won or lost by the choices we all make. This is a beautiful and compelling novel." Richard Wheeler, award winning author of The Canyon Of Bones "Irene Bennett Brown offers a stirring and complex story of love and family with an unforgettable protagonist in a novel that is just wonderful." Michelle Black, author of the bestselling novel An Uncommon Enemy"In The Bargain, Irene Bennett Brown has created a deliciously detailed historical setting, then peopled it with winning characters rich in depth and heart." Elizabeth Grayson, author of WILLA finalist novel, Moon In The Water

Women in the 1870s have little control over their lives and the women of Dry Creek, California, look to Sheriff Maud Overstreet, a thirty-something spinster, as an example of women's progress. Following a disastrous fire that leveled the school, Maud appoints a woman as fire chief. Inspired, several women step forward to run their own businesses-a bakery, charm school, and newspaper-much to the consternation of the male town councilors.While searching for the school arsonist, Maud witnesses a shooting which left a man dead, questions the new concept of insurance, and assumes the salesman was the arsonist. She also takes on the role of campaign manager for two of her friends, both vying to be Mayor. Toss in more fires, a wild romance, a rowdy town dance, establishing a school for Chinese girls, and mysterious threatening notes, Sheriff Overstreet faces each new challenge with determination. She is, after all, a Lady of the Law.

Gordon D. Shirreffs was an award-winning author of incredible tales of the old American West. In this volume, readers will be delighted with two such action-filled stories.In Too Tough To Die, Buck Ruffin, a righteous gunfighting lawman on a mission, stalks four vicious outlaws across the desert and through an abandoned mining town where snares and pitfalls threaten around every corner. Even against the odds, Ruffin is determined to see justice done for their victims-even if some of the dead might have deserved their fate. In Ruffin's mind, no man was above the law-or above the swift justice of death.In The Valiant Bugles, Captain Holt Downey had vowed upon pain of death to kill the Apache brave known as "The Butcher," the unconscionable savage who had murdered Downey's brother and subjected his fiancée to a fate worse than death.It takes time and many miles, but eventually Holt catches up to The Butcher, setting up a showdown between two able and determined fighters that will leave one victorious and alive, and the other dead in a shallow grave..."Gordon Shirreffs, who has written extensively both for teen-agers and adults, does a professional job of merging history, Americana, and virile action..." - Kirkus Reviews

Two full-length, action packed adventures from one of America's best Western writers!Faulkner is a gun for hire-a money gun-and has been for a quarter of a century. But that doesn't mean he's a hired killer. He'll use his gun if he has to, but only as a last resort. He's agreed to watch his friend's back and help him track down the notorious Frank Sunday gang, but they're headed straight for Gunman's Crossing, a small town with a big reputation as a wild, lawless place with lots of gunplay.In Trapp's Mountain, John Henry Trapp spent twenty-five years in prison for shooting the men who'd killed his wife. Now he's eager to return to the place where he'd once been so happy. However, old enemies think the only way Trapp can pay his debt to society is in a pine box six feet under. Though the strapping mountain man may no longer have youth on his side, he can still hold his own-but a quarter-century is a long time to be away, and just one misstep could put him in the grave.

"The second book in Gregory C. Randall's thrilling new mystery series will leave you breathless with anticipation as the action unfolds at lightning pace! After the murder of her boss, Sheriff Doug Duluth, Deputy Jordan Tynes is asked by county commissioners to step in as acting sheriff. Torn by her obligations to the county and her desire to become the new coroner, she accepts. Within a month, two mining consultants are murdered and left on the side of a snow-swept mountain road. Twenty-four hours later, a man is found walking down a blizzard-obscured highway in the dead of night, with no memory and no identification. Sheriff Tynes discovers him to be ATF Special Agent Mike Cardona, on duty in Montana to break up an international gun-running operation - guns that are being legally acquired in Montana. Sheriff Tynes also learns this same group, a gang of women who call themselves the Sisterhood of the Stone Hammer, is dealing drugs in her county and Yellowstone National Park. A tense final standoff in a box canyon in the Crazy Mountains leaves all involved inextricably changed forever"--

"...come hell or high water, Quinn is going to start her own business... Powerful men will try to destroy her, but she is stronger than they think." -Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, New York Times bestselling authorsThe 1849 Gold Rush is no place for a refined young woman on her own, but Quinn MacCann plans to become a businesswoman, independent, and capable of earning her own way.To escape her wealthy but abusive father with her inherited dowry intact, Quinn marries a stranger-a man so new to the area her powerful father doesn't control him yet-but freedom and independence are more costly than she imagined.With her hopes and dreams buried deep by secrets, she flees to California's gold country, a rugged man's land where only the strong survive. Battling blackmail, fraud, and deception, Quinn must face the most divisive lie of all-her own."An engaging historical novel with original characters, a compelling story line, and a setting rich with evocative details." -John D. Nesbitt, Spur-Award-winning author of Great Lonesome

Two full-length, action packed adventures from one of America's best Western writers!In Backshooter: Once the toughest marshal in Oklahoma, Kyle Maddux finds himself with a bullet in his back and out of job following a brutal shooting, but the vengeful Maddux launches his own investigation, he uncovers a series of similar backshootings in Texas and sets out to bring the bushwhacker to justice, no matter what the cost.In Texas Iron: When Sam McCall got word his pa had died, something seemed suspicious. And even though he and his brothers hadn't been home in twenty years, they wanted the truth. But as soon as they got back to Texas, a posse of hired guns opened fire. Turns out the new owner of their old ranch didn't exactly cotton to having them around. Yet they're determined to find out what really happened to their pa-and make their hometown of Vengeance Creek live up to its name.

Western Writers of America Spur and Owen Wister Award winner Gordon D. Shirreffs is best known for his exciting, action-packed tales of the old American West. Two of those stories have been included in this collection sure to delight fans of the Western genre. In Gunswift, Boone Shattuck's brother-in-law had been murdered in a gold robbery. His beloved sister had died of grief as a result. Shattuck was bound and determined to find the four men who had committed the robbery in order to bring them to justice-the gunswift way. He resigned his post with the Texas Rangers and set off to track them down one by one. He soon discovered that Bass Eccles, the ringleader and the key to finding both the missing gold and the three other scoundrels, was locked away in Yuma prison for unrelated crimes. Shattuck must devise a way to get into the prison and win Eccles' confidence-or die in the process.In Voice of the Gun, Sloan Sutro, former Texas Ranger, inherits a ranch from an outlaw he arrested and who was later lynched. Garth Bylas, corrupt banker and owner of the Rio Blanco Development Company, has his eye on the property now owned by Sutro, and he'll stop at nothing to get it. With an army of hired goons, Bylas sets out to make life a living hell for the Ranger, but Sloan Sutro isn't a man to be trifled with. He gives back as good as he gets, and proves to Bylas that not every man can be bought, sold, or intimidated."The joy of reading Shirreffs is in his mastery of pacing and his tough, gritty prose." - James Reasoner, author of the Rattler's Law series

"Gear writes... with flair, confidence, wit, an ear for sound, and an eye for details... His characters and their utterances are striking. And he has another gift: the ability to entertain his readers as he educates them." ―Rocky Mountain NewsNew York Times bestselling author W. Michael Gear's rough, gritty prose highlights the life of a man teetering between destruction and salvation.Theo Belk is rootless, ruthless, and deadly ― the quintessential gunfighter with the requisite traits needed to survive on the vast, lawless Western frontier. Haunted and driven by the ghosts of the men he's been forced to kill, Belk embarks on a mission to end the life of Louis Gasceaux, the one man who deserves it most - the man who murdered his parents as he was helpless to intervene.Gasceaux manages to stay one step ahead of Belk through dirty gold mining camps, bustling new towns like Dodge City and Denver, and the trails and byways in between. He can't elude his fate forever, and Belk will eventually mete out the justice he so richly deserves...or will he?

One Yellow Dog, the first in Gregory C. Randall's Deputy Jordan Tynes series is a thrilling, old-fashioned murder mystery set in the contemporary west and starring a cast of unforgettable characters.After serving in Afghanistan, five Crow Indian Army veterans return with ten million dollars they discovered during a fouled-up military operation. They use the money to start a construction company, Big Horn Construction, aimed at helping their tribe. Then, for no apparent reason, and within days of each other, three of the five are viciously murdered.Deputy Jordan Tynes, working with her boss, Sheriff Doug Duluth, and retired Montana attorney general, Russell Pike, focus on one man who they believe may be responsible. Before they can make the arrest, the killer kidnaps the daughter of the head of the construction company as well as Pike's youngest daughter, Sophie. The Indian girl escapes and identifies the killer, setting up a manhunt and chase that puts all involved on a collision course with explosive consequences.

"From Award Winning author Randi Samuelson-Brown, a gritty tale about one woman's stark determination to create her own destiny. Maude Montgomery, gifted with the second-sight, is trapped in a bad marriage to a confidence man who doesn't inspire too much confidence in her. Yearning for a better existence, she gets more than she bargained for when her husband abandons her in a remote outpost of Nebraska. Alone for the first time in her life, Maude has a decision to make-return back East to nothingness and mediocrity, or head deeper into the West to find her fortune. She chooses to take her chances in the west, and lands in Cripple Creek where she learns gold is not scattered about in the streets. Armed with little more than an untested belief she can sense gold ore deposits, Maude becomes tangled up in the gold camp's underworld and is instrumental in the makings of a mining swindle. Uncertain where to turn, or who to trust, she's about to learn first-hand that all that glitters might not be gold, and freedom demands a hefty price. Tagline: A clairvoyant, a mining swindle, and a fresh start.."--

Harlan Hague, award-winning author of Along Came Jenny, returns with another thought-provoking read that is sure to delight fans new and old.Brett Davis, a university history professor in 2022, aware that books are written by people with bias, wonders whether written history ever tells what really happened. A cosmic force of some sort transports him to the nineteenth century West where he witnesses firsthand pivotal events he has often included in his lectures. In the process, he is thrown together with a young, pretty Cheyenne woman, and a budding romance begins. As he sees the reality of these events unfold before him, he feels a sense of vindication, along with a certain sadness that history is always written by the victor. He's determined, though, to document as much about his journeys as he can so that future generations may know the real truth.

"...this page-turner left me with a knot in my throat that's still there..." -Peter Brandvold, bestselling author, on Brand Chaser: Dark Range OneIn book 2 of the Dark Range series, Brand Inspector Emory Cross returns home to the Lost Daughter Ranch for a visit and finds herself caught in the middle of a modern-day range war motivated by greed and intimidation.A shootout at the ranch leaves both Emory and her father fighting in a battle that's neither of their own making, nor of their immediate understanding. Emory wants life to continue in Stampede, Rimrock County, much the way it always has, and free from outside influences. When that proves impossible, she wants justice and law and order to prevail-Cross family styleOrganized crime and money laundering has moved into their region of Colorado-with deadly consequences. It's up to Emory to bring to heel the criminal elements responsible, no matter the cost.

"FOR SOME MEN, TROUBLE IS A CONSTANT COMPANION . . . No matter how much he tries to avoid trouble, bounty hunter Brodie Pike can't just look away when it stares him in the face. In his business, friends are hard to find, and when they need help, Pike will always heed the call. Pike faces daunting odds when he rides to the aid of some newfound friends in the gold- and silver-mining towns of Colorado Territory-two marshals beset by outlaw gangs, and a woman ravaged by bestial men"--

He will uphold the law, even if it costs him everything...Shortly after the turn of the century on a Colorado range near the town of Sage, Will Landry-an African American land agent enforcing the Van Wyck Fence Law-finds himself in a precarious position. When he discovers the body of a lynched nester swinging out on the prairie, Landry realizes he's stumbled upon a sinister plot orchestrated by German immigrant cattle baron, Joachim Lang-a man steeped in darkness if there ever was one.To bring Lang to justice, Landry must confront not only the rampant racism of the era but also a town bureaucracy resistant to change. Yet, amidst the adversity, Landry forges unexpected alliances with outcasts and those nursing personal vendettas against a common enemy.As Landry's unwavering dedication and commitment to the law chip away at Lang's facade, tensions escalate toward a dramatic climax-a showdown that will test Landry's courage and resilience like never before.

"A family saga of the old west with richly drawn characters and portrayals of life in the era ... When the father he never knew was gunned down in the New Mexican high country, Ab Catton swore to unite his estranged family--five brothers and one sister--in order to avenge Web's murder and claim his legacy of gold. Now the feuding clan members have to bury their own differences in order to bury their father's killer and take possession of the inheritance that is rightfully theirs. Hot on their trail and eager to disrupt their plans is their sociopathic uncle Brandon Bragg. He hated Web, and he hates the children just as much. Overcoming the difficulties will prove challenging, but Ab and his siblings are willing to risk it all to test the bonds of family and blood"--

Owen Wister and Spur Award winning Gordon D. Shirreffs pens incredible, true-to-life tales of the American west that are sure to please even the most discerning consumer of Western fiction.In Last Man Alive, Lorimer had escaped the massacre at Big Hatchet thanks to pure blind luck-probably the only luck he'd ever had in his life. But the money was gone and the Indians sure hadn't taken it-they considered money bad medicine. The Army thought him a thief and a coward, the Indians wanted him dead just because they didn't like survivors, and Lorimer had nobody on his side but his outcast half-breed...In Now He Is Legend, Ross Starkey is a tormented drifter who lives by the gun and rides wherever the money is-to range wars in the north, to revolutions south of the border, to any outlaw renegade who has the right price to pay for his services. Now Starkey wants out, and there's only one thing that stands in his way-a man they call the Tascosa Kid. The coming showdown will be unlike any Starkey has faced..."The joy of reading Shirreffs' work is in his mastery of pacing and his tough, gritty prose." - James Reasoner, author of Outlaw Ranger.