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By B. J Daniels. 2022
"Daniels is a perennial favorite, and I might go as far as to label her the cowboy whisperer." — BookPage…
Small towns can house big secrets... Former cop Jasper Cole has come home to Buckhorn to ranch—and to find some peace. But there's one part of his past he doesn't object to facing again. Darby Fulton acts like she's forgotten the searing one-night stand they shared in college, but to Jasper, she's as fascinating and tempting as ever. And when she's drawn into an unsettling local mystery, he follows, despite his misgivings. Bad things have been happening to Buckhorn residents, and Darby's sure it has something to do with a new store called Gossip. As a newspaper publisher, she can't ignore the story, any more than she can ignore her deep attraction to Jasper. And as their investigation reignites that spark, it also pulls them both into a twisted scheme of revenge, where secrets are a deadly weapon... Don't miss Under a Killer Moon, the next title in B.J. Daniels Buckhorn, Montana series where o ne small-town marshal will stop at nothing to catch a killer. A Buckhorn, Montana Novel Book 1: Out of the Storm Book 2: From the Shadows Book 3: At the Crossroads Book 4: Before Buckhorn Book 5: Under a Killer Moon Book 6: When Justice RidesBy B. J Daniels. 2023
Grudges run deep between two ranch families. And so do secrets... There's no avoiding anyone in Powder River's small community—not…
even a bitter rival. For years, Cooper McKenna has been thrown together with Tilly Stafford, competing against her at summer rodeos. With all the bad blood between their families, he never imagined they'd be forced to work together. Then Tilly's younger sister is shot, and Cooper comes under suspicion. Determined to get answers, they reluctantly team up, animosity turning to something far more heated—and no less dangerous. Because someone is watching, with a lot to hide and every reason to kill again... A Powder River Novel Book 1: River StrongBy Liz Isaacson. 2024
Tex Young has spent the last two decades traveling around the world with his brothers as part of Country Quad,…
a successful cowboy boy band. He's stepping back from the band and returning to his roots in Coral Canyon, where the Young brothers all grew up. Their father sold the family ranch several years ago when none of them wanted it, and Tex, along with his son, rolls into town the day before an auction for the land. He wants it. He talks to some of his brothers, and they decide to try to get the ranch back. Abigail Ingalls has other plans for that land, as it borders her small farm, which she's labored on with her disabled brother for the past two decades...after Tex left her in Coral Canyon so he could go live the country-music star life. The land isn't taken care of, and she wants to add it to what she owns and create an oasis out of weeds. Abby and Tex both show up at the auction, and they both want that land. The sparks between them are as hot as they were twenty years ago, but Tex tells himself it's because the uppity town librarian outbid him and bought his family ranch. So he devises another plan to get the ranch back—and it includes taking his gorgeous former girlfriend to dinner a time or two. Can Tex and Abby build a real, lasting relationship now that they're both back in Coral Canyon for good? Or will Tex's plan to get his family ranch back end up breaking both of their hearts?By Alex Grecian. 2023
"Impossible to put down." —Kelly Link, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Get In Trouble From bestselling author Alex Grecian comes…
a folk horror epic about a ragtag posse that must track down a witch through a wild west beset by demons and ghosts—and where death is always just around the bend. Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. On the road to Burden County, they're joined by two vagabond cowboys with a strong sense of adventure – but no sense of purpose – and a recently widowed schoolteacher with nothing left to lose. As their posse grows, so too does the danger. Racing along the drought-stricken plains in a stolen red stagecoach, they encounter monsters more wicked than witches lurking along the dusty trail. But the crew is determined to get that bounty, or die trying. Written with the devilish cadence of Stephen Graham Jones and the pulse-pounding brutality of Nick Cutter, Red Rabbit is a supernatural adventure of luck and misfortune. A Macmillan Audio production from Tor NightfireLewis celebrates "America's only truly original art form"--the western--by collecting what he considers to be classic western short stories and…
novelettes. The twenty-seven selected authors range from "pulp" writers such as Max Brand to classic authors such as Stephen Crane and Mark Twain, who are not usually thought of as contributors to the genre. Some strong language and violenceBy Maisey Yates. 2023
Bull rider Flint Carson has a heart of stone, and no one has ever come close to breaking through except…
Tansey Martin, the country music darling whose breakout hit is...about him. What starts as a confrontation ends up a reunion hot enough to melt the snow, in this Carsons of Lone Rock romance from New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates . She turned their breakup into her breakout song. And now they're snowed in... Bull rider Flint Carson has only ever opened his heart to one person...and she turned his heartbreak into a hit song! As if that wasn't torture enough, now country music star Tansey Martin is at his hotel—and when a blizzard hits, they're stranded—together. What starts as a confrontation may just end up a reunion hot enough to melt the snow! But will this time together mean repeating old mistakes, or will they take a chance on a new love song? Includes a bonus story, Claiming the Rancher's Heir !By B. J Daniels. 2023
For two rival families, the only thing that matters more than land...is love. There's a lifetime of tension between the…
McKenna and Stafford ranching families, and Oakley Stafford has the bullet scar to prove it. Defying the bitter rivalry between their families, Oakley grew up thick as thieves with Duffy McKenna. But now the Staffords and the McKennas are competing to buy a neighboring property. Both need that land desperately—and the reasons are more dangerous than Oakley knows. But there's another unspoken rivalry, too, between Duffy and Pickett Hanson, the McKenna family's ranch hand. Once upon a time, Oakley ignored the way the two handsome cowboys playfully flirted with her, but now she's untangling complicated feelings that could upend years of friendship. And when a body is found on the contested ranch, their secrets will be forced into the open at last... A Powder River Novel Book 1: Dark Side of the River Book 2: River Strong Book 3: River JusticeBy William W Johnstone. 2020
"Preacher is no hired killer. When a wagon train is brutally ambushed on the Sante Fe Trail though, he can't…
say no to the St. Louis businessman willing to pay him for justice. It's not the stolen gold that's convinced Preacher to take the job And it's not the missing body of one of the wagon train's crew, a prime suspect who may have plotted the ambush and taken off with the gold. No, it's the suspect's lovely fiance, Alita Montez. She believes her boyfriend is innocent--and has run off to find him. Preacher can't abide the idea of a young woman alone on the Sante Fe Trail. If the Comanche don't get her, the coyotes will. And Preacher can't have that. But to save the girl and get the gold, the legendary mountain man will have to forge a path that's as twisted as a nest of rattlers, face off with trigger-happy kidnappers, backstabbers, and bounty-hunters--and match wits with Styles Mallory, the biggest baddest frontiersman of them all..." -- Provided by publisherBy Courtney White. 2018
Dr. Bryce Miller, a young doctor in Boston, inherits a large, historic ranch in northern New Mexico from a wealthy…
uncle she barely knew. Then, a body is found murdered on the ranch. Is it a warning meant for her? Meanwhile, she must choose among a colorful cast of potential buyers who want to turn the working cattle ranch into something entirely different. AdultBy Carmen Baca. 2017
"El Hermano takes place during the forty days of Lent in 1928 as José and his cousins conspire to spy…
on one of the brotherhood's secret rituals to see what lies ahead for them as novices. José knows his time to join the Cofridías (of which his own father is Hermano Mayor) is near, but having seen Hermanos who appear to be in pain after a night spent at the morada, a meeting house and chapel, and having heard stories about those who even died in the past because of whatever went on within the sacred structure, his fear guides him to join his cousins in their clandestine scheme. Little do they know, certain New Mexican legends conspire against them; La Muerte, Saint Death, warns José to leave his future unknown, a ball of fire thought to be a witch crosses their path, and even la Llorona, ghost of the Weeping Woman, and el Diablo, the Devil make an appearance."--Amazon.com. Spanish language. UnratedBy Ernest Haycox. 1957
By Steven Law. 2022
After serving an eight year sentence, for a crime he didn't commit, Ben Ruby is paroled from Yuma Territorial Prison.…
Along with detailed knowledge of a 300 year-old Spanish Galleon buried in the dunes of Imperial Valley, Ben uses a treasure map, in the form of trinkets, to set out to find the ship. If following up on an old tale wasn't difficult enough, Ben has to outrun the man that put him in prison, as well as a breach in a Colorado River dam that threatens to flood the entire valley. Adult. Some strong language. Some violenceBy Janice Lucas. 1994
Marrying a "savage" was not what Priscilla Ann Billip's mother had ever imagined for her daughter. But that is the…
destiny toward which her young life points. Growing up in the mountainous wilderness of western Pennsylvania, Priscilla Ann Billips never had neighbors or playmates. In 1703 the only other inhabitants are a tribe of Tuscarora. Luckily they had befriended her family, helping the Billipses survive the merciless wintersBy James A McKenna. 2002
First published in 1936, Black Range Tales has become one of the classics of southwest Americana. In his inimitable style,…
"Uncle Jimmie" tells of prospecting, Indian fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico. The result is alternately humorous, poignant, amazing or insightful; a singular look at the times. And most of all these tales are true, for by golly, James A. McKenna was thereBy Ralph Compton. 2019
"It was the 1870s-Jesse and Frank James led daring raids on banks and trains. Doc Holliday's name struck dread in…
the hearts of men, and Wild Bill Hickok played poker with bullets in the hole. A young killer named Billy the Kid was hunted by a determined lawman, and a General named Custer took the Seventh Cavalry into Dakota Territory. One man rides this untamed frontier like a shadow of death. His name is Nathan Stone, and he had learned to kill on the vengeance trail. He would have stopped after settling the score with his parents' savage slayers. But when you're the greatest gunfighter of all, there's no peace or resting place. And it's Nathan Stone's destiny to fight for survival against the most famed and feared figures from Texas to the Black Hills-on both sides of the law." -- Provided by publisherBy Ralph Compton. 2019
"Nathan Stone experienced the horror of Civil War battlefields. But the worst lies ahead. When he returns to Virginia, to…
the ruins of what was his home, he discovers his father butchered and his mother and sister stripped, ravished, and slain. The seven renegades who did it rode away to the West. Half-starved and afoot, he takes to their trail. Nathan Stone's deadly oath-blood for blood-will cost him seven long years, as he rides the lawless trails of an untamed frontier. His skill with a Colt will match him with the likes of the Jameses and the Youngers, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, and Ben Thompson. Nathan Stone will become the greatest gunfighter of them all, shooting his way along the most relentless vengeance trail a man has ever ridden to the savage end...and this is how it all begins." -- Provided by publisherBy Micaela Gilchrist. 2002
Southern belle, Mary Bullitt abandons her life of luxury to marry General Henry Atkinson and accompanies him to the western…
frontier. This is not only a love story but also a depiction of the struggle for the West. AdultBy James Oliver Curwood. 1930
Set in the vast, solitary mountains in the northeast region of Canada, this is the story of a writer's struggle…
to save a young woman from two unscrupulous men. Spanish language. UnratedBy James Oliver Curwood. 1969
Set in the Canadian snow-covered forest, this is a story of a young man who falls in love with a…
girl he helped raise--teaching her music, how to read, etc. Spanish language. UnratedBy James Oliver Curwood. 1969