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She made a promise. Now she has to keep it...Mary Rodgers has lost everything-or so she believes. Her entire family struck down with influenza, she is alone in the world, with the exception of her beloved cousin. But Philip is bound for Oregon to meet up with his fiancée. Though Mary begs him to take her with him on the Oregon Trail, he resists. Mary's plan is simple. Since they already share a last name, she and Philip will pose as husband and wife. And though the wagonmaster is a firm man-who is sure to dash Philip's dreams of a life with his beloved should he find out the truth-Mary promises it will be their secret.Yet when Luke Sayer, their half-Indian trail scout, begins to spend evenings at their fireside, other travelers can't help but notice the budding attraction between him and Mary. Though Mary denies it, she struggles to keep her promise without bringing harm to both her cousin, who has risked everything for her, and Luke, the love of her life.Mary's grit and determination will see her through the hardships and sorrows she encounters...but Luke's love will give her hope for the future as they walk the promise road. Winner of the 2019 Will Rogers Medallion Award for Historical Romance, Walk the Promise Road is a poignant tale of love and sacrifice.
BUCKLE UP FOR DANGER BEYOND THE RESERVATION IN BOOK TEN OF THE ACTION-PACKED CONCHO SERIES.When a morning run takes a deadly turn, Texas Ranger Concho Ten-Wolves is forced to take matters into his own hands, leaving one man dead and another in custody. Delving deeper into the investigation, Concho discovers a shocking connection-the captured man is the brother of FBI agent Bihn Bui, a close friend with roots in Vietnam.Together, Concho and Bihn unravel a sinister plot involving a gruesome dog fighting ring operating in their midst, and the unlikely duo embark on a perilous journey, risking their lives to bring justice to the innocent animals.Yet troubles multiply when a seemingly unrelated incident unfolds at the Kickapoo casino. Reports of ghost sightings surface, each apparition resembling someone from Concho's dark past. Now facing not one but two enigmatic mysteries, Concho and Bihn must grapple with the boundaries of reality in the name of justice.
Life in the Oregon Territory frontier village of Brookside is drastically changed when schemes and frauds turn violent. Families are split apart, and good citizens die in this first novel in a continuing series of life in Oregon's frontier period.Brookside, Oregon Territory in the late 1840s is a ranching and timber producing village made up of those willing to face the dangers and hardships of frontier life. Some are honest, hardworking, and family oriented while others become criminals, killers, and opportunists.Farmer and rancher Jacob Hoagland works through a rough period and, into the new year, is faced with a growing family relying on him, an opportunity for farm growth, and a community that finds it needs him, too.Irene Creighton is married to an animal of a man who believes it is a man's right to beat on his wife at will. After years of abuse, she fights back with a cast iron pan. Her husband's death leads to the discovery of his participation in land fraud within the territory.Ben Thorndyke is the village's most successful businessman. His company builds the tools and appliances needed by the timber industry and by the farmers and ranchers in the little valley. In turn, his retail farm and ranch supply emporium sell what he builds along with seed and other needed supplies. He is a community leader and friend of the governor.The county constable, Tobias Kennedy, came to America from Ireland and landed in Brookside. He gets his information through the menacing use of an oak walking stick, a constantly questioning mind, and a distinct desire for Irish whisky and Oregon brandy.These lives, along with the loves, joys and hardships accompanying them, will bring questions of criminality to a conclusion. But not everyone's life will take a turn for the better...
"Modern Lawman, Jack Landers is back... Sergeant Rich Ammon has been a successful, hardworking deputy for several years with the Warrior County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff Jack Landers has learned to give Ammon tough tasks and sit back and watch him succeed, and so makes Ammon the lead investigator for his office. No sooner than he is in plain clothes and an unmarked vehicle, Ammon has two murders dropped in his lap. The first is a Wichita Falls consulting engineer who is shot for no apparent reason in Warrior County, Oklahoma. Ammon finds himself in Texas tracking down leads with iconic Texas Ranger Lt. Zack Bodeway, one of Lander's closest friends. The murder seems to be connected with two consulting firms vying for the lucrative contract on a government records facility Ammon meets the not-so-grieving wife and her mysterious sister. A second similar murder occurs just days after the first. The modus operandi looks to be the same. Were the murders connected? Was there an unknown relation between the two victims? Ammon must wade through a world of possibilities to solve both cases. Will the handsome young deputy continue to rise in stature at the sheriff's office? Or, will he crash and burn?"--
BUCKLE UP FOR THIS HISTORICAL WESTERN WHERE ROMANCE KEEPS IT LIGHT AND ROBBERY AND MURDER PROVIDE INTRIGUE AND DANGER.Jordan Hawke has been a loner since boyhood when his entire family was gunned down by the man his mother ran away with. Since then, he's been content with giving in to ongoing and intense feelings of distrust. However, as Jordan finds himself glaring through the window of a Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Train-focused on a solitary, female rider wearing a brown fedora with a red bandana masking half of her face-he can't help but doubt his gut instinct. That is-until the train skids off the tracks and derails into a ditch. Maybe he was right the first time around: women can't be trusted...Alana James is a woman who answers to no one. And she's made up her mind-Jordan is just as dangerous as the conman who murdered her father. But after a shocking derailment refuge comes for the James-Younger Gang she's traveling with-at the farm of a Quantrill Raider-Jesse James bargains with Jordan to take Alana home. And all of a sudden...Alana feels as if her independence is being ripped away. So, she does the only thing she can think of-she refuses. She also demands that Jordan help her catch the man who shot her father. If he agrees-fine. But Alana promises to waste no love along the way.As Jordan seeks to capture a female bank robber and recover $100,000.00 before Allan Pinkerton arrests him and Alana gets an unexpected lead on the counterfeiting conman, both plunge into a Cherokee Nation full of enemies and outlaws.In this intense race against time, life and death circumstances threaten to destroy Jordan and Alana unless trust and love are surrendered...
SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Gideon Hawk shoots three men who try to rob the saloon he's drinking in. One of those men is the spoiled son of a local rancher, Mortimer Stanley. The rancher doesn't take kindly to Hawk killing his son despite the crime his son was committing.When the rancher sends five men into town to kill Hawk, and Hawk turns them all toe-down, dead as stones, war clouds gather over the little prairie town of Cedar Bend."Action-packed...for fans of traditional westerns."-Booklist
RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!Hawk is holed up in an old prospector's cabin high in the Idaho mountains when he learns that an innocent girl has been kidnapped by the notorious outlaw businessman, Quentin Burnett. Burnett erroneously believes he owns this entire corner of Idaho...and all the people in it, including the girls.Burnett has a history of kidnapping young women and marrying them. He gets away with it because he's rich and he knows the most powerful men on the frontier. When Burnett's girls get too old for him, or he just plain tires of them, he sends them down to the second floor of his New Canaan whorehouse and puts them to work on their backs.That dark fate is not going to happen to Jennie Broyles. Not if Hawk can help it.
KHAN, BOOK NINE OF THE ACCLAIMED BIKER SERIES BY MIKE BARON, COMES ROARING TO LIFE LOUDER AND FASTER THAN A HARLEY V-TWIN HELL-BENT ON REVENGE!P. I. extraordinaire Josh Pratt is back with a quirky cast of characters in tow, exposing a mystery within a mystery. When MMA fighter Gena Kropenski goes missing, along with a rare Siberian tiger, animal rights group The Wild Animal Initiative hires him to find the beast and bring it back unharmed.The trail leads Pratt on a wild goose chase throughout the Upper Midwest and sees him cross paths with animal lovers and gangsters, friends and foes, all leading to sleazy Tiger Sanctuary owner Fabian Fitch, who will stop at nothing to ensure his cash cow 'zoo' stays open-despite the State of Wisconsin's crackdown.With more twists and turns than a Colorado mountain road, KHAN is Josh Pratt at his finest, proving once again that Mike Baron is the master of the action scene, the titan of telling tales, and the undisputed King of the Urban Jungle.
"A.W. HART has done it again in the fifth book in the rough-and-tumble action adventure western series starring Concho Ten-Wolves! Texas Ranger Concho Ten-Wolves nearly died in New Orleans when a rocket propelled grenade blew up the truck he was driving. He settled that score and now he's headed home for the Kickapoo reservation in Eagle Pass, Texas where he lives. His Captain doesn't like him and has suspended him without pay. He's riding a Greyhound bus and all he wants at Christmas time is some peace. He's not going to get it. Trouble climbs on the Greyhound in the form of two strangers-a teenage girl who looks like a runaway and a man who looks like a predator. Concho is worried. He knows, children disappear. Sometimes forever. Not on his watch!"--
SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Gideon Hawk hunts the notorious depraved killer, Pima Miller, into the Superstition Mountains of Arizona Territory. Hawk inadvertently shot the killer's Apache woman, orphaning the killer's infant son. The killer himself doesn't seem to mind. He leaves them both behind to save himself and head into the mountains with his beautiful young guide, Jodi Zimmerman, whom he's kidnapped from the Superstition Stage Relay Station.Hawk, however, minds very much that his bullet meant for the killer, Miller, struck an innocent woman. He storms after Miller with his usual bloodlust...
Revenge sure is sweet in this classic western double by Gordon D. Shirreffs.
Julia Waycross wants famous actress and singer Birdie Ballard to visit Pedregosa for Christmas in the hopes that she can perk up the spirits of those wounded in an attack by outlaw Black Jack Tillman and his vicious gang. But someone's got it in for Birdie, and she's not willing to travel without a bodyguard. When Cody Cavanaugh agrees to fetch Julia's idol, Birdie's entire troupe--unbeknownst to Cody--is also invited. But since they're to put on a performance for the town, and they've already been paid for their efforts, he has little choice in the matter. So, instead of a quick trip by rail with Birdie, Cody must escort the troupe--and their three wagons--overland back to Pedregosa. Along the way, they run into Tillman, who's still wanted for murder. And while a local lawman is willing to hold Tillman overnight, he can't spare anyone to accompany him back to Pedregosa. So, Cody decides to bring Tillman and the troupe back in one trip. But Tillman has offered a reward to anyone who can free him from captivity along the way, and a once-easy journey is made near-impossible. Standing in Cody's way are members of Tillman's gang, men seeking coin, Birdie's would-be assassin, and harsh winter weather ...
RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!The Tierney gang is spreading their terror throughout Trinity Ridge, and the town needs a temporary lawman to dole out justice - former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk. He won't rest until they're strung up from the gallows they once escaped."A storyteller who knows the West."-Bill Brooks
The odds are against survival in this classic western double.
"It's May, and the river is in flood. Mountain snow melt and torrential rain has plagued the area for a week. Knox Burdette witnesses a murderous attack on a neighbor and Anson Lowell can't let him escape. With no witness, the case falls apart. When one murder has been committed, a second comes at little cost, right? Especially when the witness is a no-account ranch hand. But William Ault lived long enough to press a letter onto Knox and beg him to deliver it to his attorney in Spokane. Knox, being an honest man, undertakes the task. Knox is trying to escape the gang when a riverbank collapses under his horse. It is Tinker O'Keefe who discovers him clinging to a log. She effects a rescue of both man and horse and takes them in. The gang, while searching for Knox, shows up at Tinker's house, making threats. The thing is, Tinker's home is a former brothel, and she is painted with the same brush. She hides Knox, and the next day they make their way to Spokane to meet with the attorney. More surprises are in store, including to whom William Ault has bequeathed his ranch and the discovery of an independent witness to Ault's murder. Even so, nothing will stop the murderer's urge to kill Knox and Tinker"--
Gideon Hawk follows one rule - justice.Hawk's been asked to find a merciless gang leader called Knife-Hand. One of his hands has been replaced with a Mojave axe. But Hawk has something mightier in his artillery - a personal vendetta."Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series." - James Reasoner
FAME AND FORTUNE IN THE WILD WEST ARE WHAT LOMAX SEEKS... BUT POOR DECISIONS AND A TOUCH OF BAD LUCK ALWAYS STAND IN THE WAY.Accused of cheating at cards on a Southern Pacific passenger train in far West Texas, H.H. Lomax is kicked off the train and finds himself at the mercy of the unpredictable justice of Judge Roy Bean, who calls himself "Law West of the Pecos." After being fined of all his money, married, and divorced by the judge in a matter of minutes, Lomax discovers an unlikely connection to him.Against a backdrop of a pending world heavyweight championship bout, Lomax heads to El Paso to interest someone in writing and publishing Bean's biography. He winds up in an El Paso boarding house across the hall from Texas killer John Wesley Hardin. They despise each other, but Hardin fears Lomax's straight-arrow Texas Ranger brother and treads lightly around Lomax. Because of Hardin's crooked connections in El Paso, Lomax gets caught between him and corrupt constable John Selman.El Paso is becoming the focal point of efforts to host a championship prizefight that everyone from the Presidents of the United States and Mexico to the governors of Texas, New Mexico Territory and Chihuahua have vowed to stop. Calling on his connections to his Ranger brother, Andy, El Paso officials and the promoter of the boxing match, Lomax uses his Judge Roy Bean friendship to pull off the oddest prizefight in heavyweight history.Outlaw West of the Pecos stands as an entertaining mix of historical and hysterical fiction.
"One secret leads to a fight for survival in book one of an all-new Western series from Jeffrey J. Mariotte. When Union private Cody Cavanaugh is captured and sent to the Confederate prison at Camp Tattnall, he's quickly befriended by Sean O'Meara. But O'Meara has a secret-a stash of stolen Confederate gold stashed in a safe location. When he realizes he won't survive Tattnall and its sadistic commander, "Butcher" Crane, he tells Cody where the treasure is hidden, and elicits a promise to deliver it to O'Meara's fiancâee, Eleanor Perry. At the war's end, Cody retrieves the gold, but Eleanor-now Eleanor Bishop-proves hard to find. Her trail leads him across the continent to Pedregosa, in the Arizona Territory. A dozen years have passed, and Cody simply wants to deliver the gold and get started on his own life. But Pedregosa is in the grip of a war between miner and rancher factions, and Cody winds up in the middle of it. When he makes enemies of both sides, only his own hard-won skills and those of a few chosen allies can save his life and bring the war to an end. But that's only if he can survive the lethal manipulations of Ethan Holm, who's not the man he claims to be. And only Cody knows who he really is..."--
FROM FIRST-RATE STORYTELLER TERRENCE MCCAULEY COMES THIS GRITTY AND JADED HUNT FOR A DIABOLICAL VILLAIN RUNNING RAMPANT ON MANHATTAN'S STREETS. It's 1927, and corrupt NYPD Detective Charlie Doherty has been ordered by Chief Carmichael to hunt down a cop killer at all costs. Seeking justice for a fellow comrade in blue while also protecting his crooked way of life and serving his best friend and chief, Charlie begins hunting down the man who killed Detective Spann. His first suspect? The Wandering Man - an infernal villain involved in the disappearances of several young men over the past decade. Charlie's quest to find this madman takes him down the back alleys of Manhattan's underworld to the halls of power within himself. As this suspenseful journey takes Charlie further into the inner reaches of the city and borders on the edges of his own sanity, Charlies begins to wonder . . . Will he be able to catch The Wandering Man before he claims his next victim?
"When Rand Colby's fiancâee is killed by four escaping bank-robbers, Rand takes up the mission of finding the men who killed her. During his search, Rand befriends Charles Holiday, owner of a hotel/saloon/brothel in Laramie. Charles is shot, and his dying wish is for Rand to go to St. Louis to find his niece, to whom he is leaving his business. Carrie Holiday, Charles' niece, lives at the New Life Orphanage where she worked as a governess. It is no mere coincidence, for when she was a baby, she had been left at the home by Charles, the uncle she was unaware existed. When Carrie reaches Laramie she learns that what she thought was a hotel was also a saloon and brothel. She immediately makes some changes and turns the extra space into a community meeting room. As Carrie struggles with the hotel, she is helped by her uncle's lawyer whose 'help' may lead her into bankruptcy so he can take over the hotel for himself. In the meantime, Rand continues his hunt locating and bringing to justice the bank robbers, one at a time. When Carrie is kidnapped, Rand, who has found all but one of the men who killed his fiancâee, must put his original mission aside to rescue her"--Amazon.com.
"A mixed-race outlaw gang terrorizes the border territory between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, committing brutal robberies, rapes, and abductions of women and girls for sale as slaves to oligarchs in their homeland and points farther south. After one of his friends from the Rangers dies pursuing them, G.W. Braddock swears vengeance and embarks on a one-man crusade to end their depredations, rescuing their hostages if possible, while caught unwillingly between government and rebel forces in the early days of the long-running Mexican Revolution."--Provided by publisher.
"In the world of dangerous men, a blood line is a cause passed from generation to generation from master to protâegâe. But on the path to becoming a master, each protâegâe must find their own hunting ground. When a young girl is lured away by an Internet predator, the young protâegâe of an assassin who never leaves a trace decides to leave his own mark by hunting down sexual predators targeting vulnerable teens who are bullied and feeling unwanted. As Sonny discovers his own cause his own reason for existence and a skill set beyond anything his master taught him, he steps out of the shadows and joins a long blood line of masters seeking justice on behalf of defenseless children"--FantasticFiction.com.
Once a lawman, always a lawman. The only variation is whose laws you follow.U.S. Marshal Flagg is not going to let Gideon Hawk, once deputy marshal, now Rogue Lawman, slip through his fingers. He follows Hawk to his hideout in Bedlam, determined to catch him. But he doesn't know that Hawk has the help of an old nemesis on his side, a woman who knows the feel of his touch-and the feel of a gun. And what he doesn't know could hurt him."Action-packed...for fans of traditional westerns."-Booklist
The odds are against survival in this classic western double.
SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk gives some bounty hunters a lethal lesson in how reputations are made when a beautiful prostitute asks for his protection."Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series." - James Reasoner
The Rogue Lawman, Gideon Hawk, can turn from marshal to executioner with the pull of a trigger...A hunted man, Hawk has retreated to his remote cabin in the San Juan Mountains, hoping to simply disappear. But when young, beautiful Catherine McCormick comes to him alone in the rain from the mining camp over the mountain, he knows his respite is over.A vicious gang raided the girl's camp, ravaging and brutalizing at will, and killing Catherine's brother. Catherine is willing to give Hawk anything, even herself, to hunt down the killers and serve up the brutal, decisive, and fitting justice the Rogue Lawman is known for.
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