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I have loved researching the U.S. Old West to create this story. It covers horses, cattle drives, horseshoes and even poker games. The main character is Lonnie, a young boy with no apparent roots, who lands in trouble right away.

After a summer spent off the grid in the Colorado Rockies, Detective Jack Martin returns to Telluride and finds the sheriff looking for him. Local school boys have found a body in an abandoned mine with a long history of betrayal and greed. Law enforcement needs Jack’s help to find the killer. But when the number of murder suspects mounts, Jack finds himself in the dark, struggling to piece together the clues. And as his investigation intensifies, so does the danger. Will an avalanche of small-town secrets bury him alive?

When a series of seemingly unrelated murders occur in his community, Sheriff Hyde Stinson grapples with how to protect the citizens of Telluride, Colorado. The killers take responsibility, but their motives are a mystery, and they remain on the loose. Hyde must now face the roughest group of outlaws in the area, The McCaffery Gang. Can he stop them alone, or will he need to rely on three brothers with bad reputations and questionable pasts?

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decides who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance. In this sixth book of the series you will find these three stories by the author: What Lies Beyond The Flames, Cactus Joe And The Cowpokes, and Saguaros at Sunrise.

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decides who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance.

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decides who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance.

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decides who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance.

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decides who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance.

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decide who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance.

One Sunday morning, John Thompson went out for a ride on his bike. He never made it home. Was his death really just a freak accident? That’s the question ex-wife, Angela Thompson, has for the sheriff’s office. But for some reason they refuse to investigate further.

The TAO of Da-da is what happens when a sleep-deprived (male) parent starts misremembering excerpts of The Tao de Ching while high-speed toddlers crash and burn and scream into walls and furniture and innocent bystanders, with you just standing there, Legos stuck to your face in fascination-of-the-abomination, pretending that epic tantrums and parabolic dinner arcs are business as usual.

St. Louis, Missouri is gripped by a series of twelve bank robberies that leave local and federal authorities baffled. Dubbed the Boonie Hat Bandit, this criminal methodically robs Banks in broad daylight leaving no clues. Everyone wonders who he is, and law enforcement scrambles while the robberies make national news. In this revised and updated version of the original, Bank Notes Revisited reintroduces the world to Donald Keith Giammanco. How and why would this quiet, middle-class, single father of twin daughters enter a life of crime?

In Miss Slappy Gets an Admirer, Fin pursues Slappy Hughes while she blocks his advances, finds herself ensnared in an old ladies’ club, pursues the elderly but gentlemanly Ed Wilcox, and experiences the best and the worst of her former hometown as everyone takes sides in a garbage war.

In the late 19th century, academics scoffed at the notion that the people of Acoma Pueblo once inhabited the unscalable Katzimo Mesa. In 1897, Frederick Webb Hodge proved them wrong by finding signs of habitation atop the plateau. Today called Enchanted Mesa, it presents one of the better examples of a lost world to be found in New Mexico. But there are so many more.

The rugged men and resourceful women of the West come alive in these western short stories. Traditional westerns are blended with a touch of science fiction and paranormal while remaining true to authentic western storytelling. Come hit the unexpected trail.

From the author of In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree comes this uncompromising and compelling novel of post-Civil War America. Half-starved and disillusioned, Everett Ward searches for a new life after four years of war. He drifts down to Texas where he finds work on a cattle ranch. An encounter with Rebecca, the ranch’s Lakota kitchen girl, leaves him enamored, but it also starts a chain of events that spans decades and leaves the couple embroiled in a bitter clash of cultures.