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Steep mountain climbs, Indian raids, and lonely New Mexico roads bathed in murderous heat – Crow Woodruff has seen it all. But he’s never had an ex-boss try to shoot him dead. Tired of being treated like a slave, Crow leaves Lawrence Bain’s freighting company and soon finds himself in charge of his own. Now, Bain is losing his fortune. He’s desperate to regain his domination of the supply routes and all the people he abuses for to maintain a life of luxury. With their bitter past fueling his desire to triumph over Bain, Crow refuses to put his mules back in the stall. It’s not ...

After an attempted theft of one of his ranch’s horses, Levi Clay finds himself with blood on his hands and renewed questions about his father’s mysterious death… As he searches for answers in the neighboring town of Masonville, he uncovers a world that’s been warped to serve a brutal gang of outlaws led by one man – Pete Ramsey. Murder. Raids. Corruption. Pete has done it all. But nobody dares to point out the injustices that they have suffered. Speaking up only puts their lives in danger, because… The sheriff and his deputies are on Ramsey’s payroll. As he probes deeper into ...

Star Holiday is on the run. Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery. Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger. Star is the only person that sees justice has been served. On trails and rails, Star battles across the tormented Great Plain to get to her aunt and uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Freedom and peace are on the horizon. Now, the law is on her trail. U.S. Marshal Duke Horne always gets ...

Hunting the men who did it. One by one. After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood. Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice. As Lucas uncovers an ocean of pain left behind by the gang, he also finds ...

“Help them” are the last words of a dying man who had no hat, no gun, no horse and massive callouses on his hands. US Marshal Clint Riley is suddenly staring at a nefarious mining operation in Colorado Territory. Dozens of citizens and an entire Indian village go missing. Innocent men, women and even children are threatened, abused and some killed. This biggest and most wicked crime in Old West lore has to be exterminated – at its roots. Together with his deputy Jasper Teel, Riley saddles up to investigate this nefarious operation. The US Marshal uses his wit, brawn and law ...

Missie Pickard is dead. Main street has burned. And the outlaw that pulled the trigger has disappeared into the scorched Arizona desert. The townspeople demand justice. When young miner Miles McLean returns home to find his town in ruins, he wants justice as much as anybody. Miles must find Willy Helm, the murderous bank robber seen fleeing the scene of the crime… Willy Helm. He’ll kill for money and he’ll kill for fun. Nobody has come close enough to collect the bounty on his head. As Miles searches alone in the sweltering desert, he finds himself entangled in bloody Apache wars and ...

God Set Me Free is a testimonial written by a man that was set free from his mental health psychosis, addiction, and his existence behind bars. This harrowing tale takes you through several years of fear, depression, massive anxiety, auditory, and other hallucinations. God opened him up to his hidden talent as a writer and gave him guidance and courage to develop a series of business books unlike anything else on the market today.

He upholds the law, until the law is held in utter contempt. U.S. Marshal Wade Nelson’s stint in the Union Army and no-nonsense approach to law enforcement makes him a natural fit for his position. When a night has gone lawless to become known as the Bandera Massacre, starting with the death of a sheriff, Wade saddles up. Law and lawlessness cannot co-exist. The Bateman Gang inflicts great evil and suffering in both Texas and the Indian Territory. They terrorize. They think they are soldiers. They see everyone else as ‘outsiders’. Little is known about the gang, except that: 1- they ...

You can take the man out of law enforcement. But you can’t take the law enforcement out of the man. Logan McCoy has a ranch and he just wants to work on it. However his peace is short-lived, as deadly attacks spread across his town. His townsfolk are suddenly violated by torture, murder, arson, kidnapping, and cattle rustling. Logan is forced to take up his badge again – as deputy sheriff. Cattle baron Brock Collins wants a ranch empire for himself. Brock is using the simple invention of the barbed wire to colonize a territory, at the expense of the innocent. Deputy Sheriff Logan needs ...

Former U.S. Marshal Austin Harper is a wanted man. He is wanted in Robbers Roost for intercepting their raids at a stagecoach way station in New Mexico. He is wanted for saving a distressed Rachel Dennis. Now, Harper is facing not just one petty gang of robbers but an entire canyon of criminals operating in a highly organized fashion. Not that Harper is afraid. But his badly injured leg during his line of duty is a huge encumbrance. And time is running short. This nefarious bunch is terrorizing a lot of the southwest from a barren and well-fortified canyon in nearby No Man's Land. Together ...

Young brash cowboy Buck Larsen is fed up and can't take it any longer. Everyone in Centerville, Texas is sitting back and letting a local cattle baron and his ranch hands call the shots for everyone, whether they like it or not. Most of them don't, but won't do anything about it. They're all paralyzed by fear. They refuse to act against the bullies, mis-named the Justice Rangers. That group threatens anyone they don't like with violence and unspeakable acts. Kidnapping and murder aren't below this violence gang, who hide their identities with masks. Not only is the town scared but the ...

The Civil War veteran stands alone in his fight for justice and safety for his townsfolk. Friendly cowboy Gil Richards is one laid-back bronco buster. The war veteran happily makes his living as a wrangler near Hugo, Arizona. But that all changes when a stranger mysteriously dies right in front of him. Gil suspects the dead man may be a state prisoner being used illegally by shady businessman Mort Odom. Mort, and his henchmen don't let anything or anyone get in their way. If that involves murder, then so be it. For the good people and townsfolk of Hugo, Gil takes on the injustice. And among...

Amy Taylor and Colt Harman were riding Walter, the appaloosa, as fast as the critter could carry them. They had one destination – the Taylor Way Station. “Are you sure we have to go this fast, Colt?” a still somewhat distressed Amy asked the Wells Fargo guard. “I’ve learned one thing about outlaws over the years,” Colt answered back with his speech a bit halted by riding on Walter. “You can never tell what outlaws will do. Most of them are yellow bellied cowards. But a few of them are crazy enough to do anything.” “You really think they'd come after us now?” “Pardon me...

No lawman has ever been tested under fire as Sheriff Clay Granger. The lawman must respond to a large murderous Vortman family intent on leaving behind a trail of blood and fear in 1874 Empire, Texas. The Vortmans, led by evil patriarch Asa Vortman, don't mind burning, shooting, bludgeoning or blowing up anyone who gets in their way. To complicate matters, the insidious gang are holed up a most well protected pieces of real estate on the frontier, Ridge Country. Nobody can lay a hand on them in the barren, rugged rock terrain. Or can they? That's Clay’s mission as he fights against the ...

Bart Fulton feels compelled by fate to pin on a deputy’s badge in Arizona Territory’s Plain Creek. The young twenty-two-year old has drawn an almost impossible first challenge – putting an end to the evil and murderous ways of criminal Weed Meadows. Weed doesn’t bat an eye killing innocent people and threatening others. He wants to expand a silver mine he stole. To do that he’ll have to get land from two families, the Lees and the Rileys. There’s one problem – both families have been feuding for years. Bart knows about Weed’s nefarious plans. But convincing the Lees and the ...

Solitary and legendary shooter Dan “Three Hands” Roberts learns about a tragedy on a wanted poster – the Barber Boys are wanted for the deaths of two men and a house burned to ashes. The victims? Dan’s father and brother. It was a twisted revenge served cold by the Barber Boys after Dan killed Wes Barber, one of the gang members, in a fair duel. But Dan’s mother and sister have managed to flee, and it is up to Dan to protect his surviving kin. The Barber Boys, merciless brothers with a mining fortune, will put anyone in the ground if they stand in their way of making money, ...

Evan Henson, a Union battle-tested veteran of the Civil War, dismounted. He stood six-one and paused. “I am so sorry, Miss McLee. Your ma was one of the finest women the Good Lord ever put on this earth. You say it was Kreb who killed her, huh?” “Sure nuff,” Dory McLee confirmed. Evan exhaled deeply and turned around slowly shaking his head. “You know Alton Kreb. He has the most money of anyone in this territory and he ain’t about ready to go to the hoosegow on his own.” “That’s just too doggone bad,” Dory fired back. “He broke the law and now he’s gotta pay for it....

Ben Daniel is a driver for the Rocky Stagecoach Company. He has a zest for the frontier as well as transportation. After all he had been a rider for a short while with the widely known Pony Express outfit. Ben takes enormous pride in his stage duties and is incensed that another company driver, Merle Rusten, has crossed the line and become a criminal. Rusten has orchestrated a holdup on his stage. It led to the deaths of five people and the loss of sixty-thousand dollars. One of those killed is guard Jason Carey, father of Sarah Carey. And Sarah is Ben’s one and only true love. Ben will ...

“The bridge.” Sheriff Dean Coleman paused, then said, “The bridge? What about it?” “The bridge that the Texas Pacific rides on, over Bitter Gorge. That’s a drop of one hundred feet or more, down into the Pecos River.” Dean leaned in. “You don’t figure they’re blowing it up?” “I don’t know. It makes sense. Blow up the bridge, take the gold.” After finding a train schedule in the pocket of a dead outlaw, Sheriff Dean uncovers the most sinister plot yet of the deadly militia Los Bandidos Rojos. There’s a train car full of gold due to pass through Dean’s town. ...

It’s 1868 and many people are relying on the skills of scout Drake Sagewater. Drake is helping settlers on their way to California. The Andrews family, riding in a canvas wagon, has been attacked by a shrewd renegade from the Apache Nation, named Jace. With a rag-tagged band of fellow renegades, Jace is making life miserable, and sometimes deadly, for settlers. That is the case with the migrating Andrews family, who loses their patriarch, Jed Andrews, in a raid. While seeking justice, Jed’s daughter, Lydia, takes a shine to the handsome young Drake Sagewater. Drake’s challenge is ...