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Gunsmoke
by Gary MccarthySherriff Matt Dillon wonders whether Dodge City's popular new doctor may be in cahoots with a gang of bank robbers, in the first installment in a western series based on the long-running, venerable TV series. Original.
Gunsmoke Justice
by Louis TrimbleThere was room enough in the valley, but Ike Quarles didn't think so. Now he and his hired killers had served notice on Brad--drift or die! "I'm about through drifting," Brad said slowly. "I was thinking about taking up a homestead. " Then he was silent, watching them sit their horses, waiting for the abrupt twitch of a hand--the sudden, lunging move that would explode this whole valley into murderous, bullet-screaming range war!
Gunsmoke Masquerade: A Western Story
by Peter DawsonThe only hope of finding a US marshal who suspiciously vanished in the desert is rotting in a New Mexico jail!Because of reports of a potential range war in Peñasco County, New Mexico, US Commissioner Guilford dispatches Deputy US Marshal Ed Church to help clean up the mess. But after arriving in Agua Verde by stagecoach and renting a horse to ride to the troubled area, Church disappears. At the same time, two top men from rival ranching operations are found killed outside town the day after Church arrived in Agua Verde, apparently the deadly result of a shoot-out.Guilford knows that Ed Church's best friend, Streak Mathiot, is currently sitting in the Pleasant City jail. Guilford visits and offers him the job of deputy US marshal to investigate Church's disappearance. If Streak will accept it, the commissioner's assignment will take precedence over any local charges against him, and the prisoner would be released into Guilford's custody. Streak accepts Guilford's offer to find his friend before it's too late. But little does he know he'll be dropped right in the middle of a fight that has already turned violent . . . and possibly deadly.Gunsmoke Masquerade finds Peter Dawson in top form, justifying his reputation as one of the most respected Western writers of all time.
Gunsmoke Mesa
by Daniel JamesRed Batten was a hot-tempered giant of a man. Talkie Hines was his opposite! smooth, icy, lightning fast. But one thing they shared: bitterness at being railroaded to prison. Busting out was no trick for them, it was setting up an outlaw kingdom in Apache land. But the pair could not rest until they settled scores with the two lawmen who had wrecked their lives! It was showdown time when they rode into town. And the streets would run with blood before the fuse of hate burned to its explosive climax. ...
Gunsmoke Mountain
by Paul LedererAsked to rescue a missing girl, a gunman finds trouble everywhereCelia lies in bed when the man comes through her window. He whispers instructions, and she follows him into the night. Has she been kidnapped, or did she go of her own accord? To Celia&’s father, there is no question that his daughter has been abducted, and he offers $800 to anyone who will kill the man who took her. His first choice is Dan Featherskill, a mysterious drifter with no patience for the law but a deep respect for human life. Dan has killed before but is no assassin, and the offer of a bounty makes him sick. But there are men in this town who see murder as an opportunity.When the men sent out after Celia threaten the girl who Dan loves, he follows their trail into the foreboding Shadow Mountain. Trapped on the mountain by a deadly snowstorm, he will have to kill to survive.
Gunsmoke and Gold (Blood Bond #4)
by William W. JohnstoneJohnstone—Keeping the West WildYoung Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher’s son saved the halfbreed’s life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the breed and the white man who rode together—and who could jerk killing iron with the best of them… GUNSMOKE AND GOLD In Dale, Colorado, any cowboy with good sense knows better than to step through the batwings of the Plowshare Saloon—and any sheep-herder crazy enough to belly up to the bar at the Red Dog is ordering the last taste of whiskey he’ll ever lift to his lips. The town of Dale is heading for an all-out war that will pit father against son, and brother against brother. Bodine and Two Wolves try to make both sides see reason, but that fails when a bunch of hired night riders start scouring the countryside and putting notches on their six-guns. The blood brothers soon figure the cause of the trouble goes a hell of a lot deeper than the grass everyone’s fighting over. A battle’s coming, and they’re about to be caught in the thick of it. But they know it’ll be their kind of fight—dealing out a hard dose of range justice in hot lead…Live Free. Read Hard.
Gunsmoke in the Grassland (Kings of Coyote Creek #3)
by Carla CassidyThe truth will out the criminalAnd change this lawman&’s life forever Deputy Jacob Black&’s homecoming is marred by his first assignment: solving the murder of Big John King. Ashley King is surprised and relieved to learn that her former childhood crush is working to find her father&’s killer. But when Ashley narrowly fends off a brutal attack, Jacob&’s protector instincts kick in. His new mission: keep Ashley safe—and find the killer at any cost. From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served.Discover more action-packed stories in the Kings of Coyote Creek series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Closing in on the CowboyBook 2: Revenge on the RanchBook 3: Gunsmoke in the Grassland
Guy Walks Into a Bar
by Georgina LiMontana rancher Vic Crofford has made his peace with the wide open spaces in his life. Then a hot young hired hand walks into Max's Bar and turns his world upside down. Tennyson Ayers is bright, charming, and willing. When Tennyson smiles, Vic wants to see that smile again. When Tennyson laughs, Vic laughs, too. But there's a sadness under the surface, a vulnerability that pulls on Vic's closed-off heart, and for the first time in forever, Vic wants more. Will Vic let Tennyson in, or is he destined to walk his path alone?NOTE: This story appears in the anthology, Cowboy Roundup edited by Drew Hunt, available in e-book and print formats.
Gym Slave
by Gordon PhillipsMarc is entranced by a playful exchange between two men and a woman on the street, and follows the men to their gym. On impulse he joins, but this is not a gay gym, and Marc finds himself systematically ignored. To challenge this he adopts increasingly provocative workout clothes. He is courting danger, as gym staff member Anatole tries to warn him.But Marc doesn't listen, because one of the gym members, Orestes, appears to be showing interest. Orestes even propositions Marc in the parking lot behind the gym. The encounter is intense, beyond Marc's expectations. But it takes Marc down a path leading to captivity and utter degradation, which exposes him to unexplored aspects of his own inner nature.Anatole rescues Marc, but needs rescuing himself from his own emotional suppression. Orestes re-enters the picture, and the dynamics of the threesome are sufficient to drive Marc to the edge of a personal abyss. He must choose between living the life of an ordinary gay man and that of a true "Sub." The BDSM relationship challenges his deepest values, but will is also feed his deepest passions?
Haji's Exile
by Alan ChinNathan has cared for horses all his life, but Haji is the first he'll train on his own. When the Arabian stallion arrives at Bitter Coffee Ranch, Nathan thinks he is the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. And then he lays eyes on Haji's handler, Yousef. Nathan has much to learn about horses, about pride, and about love, but with the ranch's hopes riding on Haji, he'll also learn that all things have their price. A Bittersweet Dreams title: It's an unfortunate truth: love doesn't always conquer all. Regardless of its strength, sometimes fate intervenes, tragedy strikes, or forces conspire against it. These stories of romance do not offer a traditional happy ending, but the strong and enduring love will still touch your heart and maybe move you to tears.
Half An Inch Of Water: Stories
by Percival EverettA new collection of stories set in the West from "one of the most gifted and versatile of contemporary writers" (NPR) Percival Everett's long-awaited new collection of stories, his first since 2004's Damned If I Do, finds him traversing the West with characteristic restlessness. A deaf Native American girl wanders off into the desert and is found untouched in a den of rattlesnakes. A young boy copes with the death of his sister by angling for an unnaturally large trout in the creek where she drowned. An old woman rides her horse into a mountain snowstorm and sees a long-dead beloved dog. For the plainspoken men and women of these stories—fathers and daughters, sheriffs and veterinarians—small events trigger sudden shifts in which the ordinary becomes unfamiliar. A harmless comment about how to ride a horse changes the course of a relationship, a snakebite gives rise to hallucinations, and the hunt for a missing man reveals his uncanny resemblance to an actor. Half an Inch of Water tears through the fabric of the everyday to examine what lies beneath the surface of these lives. In the hands of master storyteller Everett, the act of questioning leads to vistas more strange and unsettling than could ever have been expected.
Half a Cowboy
by Andrew GreyEver since his discharge from the military, injured veteran Ashton Covert has been running his family ranch—and running himself into the ground to prove he still can. Ben Malton knows about running too. When he takes refuge in Ashton’s barn after an accident in a Wyoming blizzard, he’s thinking only of survival and escaping his abusive criminal ex, Dallas. Ashton has never met a responsibility he wouldn’t try to shoulder. When he finds Ben half-frozen, he takes it upon himself to help. But deadly trouble follows Ben wherever he goes. He needs to continue on, except it may already be too late. Working together brings Ben and Ashton close, kindling fires not even the Wyoming winter can douse. Something about Ben makes Ashton feel whole again. But before they can ride into the sunset together, they need to put an end to Dallas’s threats. Ben can make a stand, with Ashton’s help—only it turns out the real danger could be much closer to home.
Halfway to Hell (A Slick Parker Western)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. GET TOUGH OR GET OUT OF THE WAY.In this hot-blooded new series from the bestselling Johnstones, a young deputy sheriff earns his badge the hard way—with six cutthroat killers out for his blood . . . As the deputy sheriff in a small Missouri town, &“Slick&” Parker Jones doesn&’t have much to do except get drunk and chase saloon girls. Life is pretty dull in Rory&’s Junction—until Slick sees the wanted poster for a notorious train robber. Parker&’s never met an actual outlaw before. He&’s never faced any real dangers, to be honest. But when that wanted man staggers into Parker&’s nightly watering hole—half dead, with a hole in his gut and a bloody map in his hand—the young deputy&’s life takes a wild turn . . . quite possibly fatal. It starts with the dying man&’s final words: &“The gold.&” Which leads Slick Parker to one conclusion: The map leads to the stolen gold from the outlaw&’s latest, greatest train robbery. Instead of calling the marshal, Parker decides to hunt for the gold himself, earn his badge the old-fashioned way, and become the kind of lawman he always knew he could be. There&’s just one problem. Parker isn&’t the only one searching for the gold. A vicious gang of six barbaric killers are looking for it, too—and they&’re gunning for the man with the map. By the time Parker realizes what he&’s up against, it&’s too late. He&’s already halfway to hell. . . .
Halo
by John LovedayA tale of the Old West as it has seldom been imagined before-authentic, frontier-harsh, and ethereal. Scrag, a young man on the trail to Oregon, meets Justly, a young woman, and her mother and is drawn into their lives. Winner of the David Higham Prize as the best first novel published in the U. K. or British Commonwealth.
Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860
by Leroy R. Hafen Ann W. HafenIt is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand hardy souls who trudged across thirteen hundred miles of prairie, desert, and mountain from 1856 to 1860 were European converts to the Mormon faith. Without funds for wagons and oxen, they carried their possessions in two-wheeled carts powered and aided by their own muscle and blood. Some of the weary travelers would finally be welcomed by their brethren in Salt Lake City; others would go to wayside graves or get caught in early winter storms in the Rockies and hope to be rescued by the parties sent out by Brigham Young. The migration is described in Handcarts to Zion, which draws on diaries and reports of the participants, rosters of the ten companies, and a collection of the songs sung on the trail and at "The Gathering. " LeRoy R. Hafen and Ann W. Hafen dedicated the book to his mother, Mary Ann Hafen, who wrote about the long journey in Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier, also a Bison Book.
Handful of Sky
by Tory CatesIn the first of a sweeping Western romance series written by a Rita Award-winning author, a woman tries to make her way into the rodeo world--and lassos the affections of a handsome cowboy. Shallie had to make her way in rodeo, a man's world, and Hunt McIver's help was invaluable to her. But the man himself remained a mystery. Why would he help a woman whose motives he didn't trust? Yet together they warmed the western nights and built a dream beneath a sky as wide and beautiful as the love that bloomed between them....
Hands On
by Amie StuartTouch Me, Baby. . . Monday through Friday, theyre known as Alex, Mel, and Carl. But by night, these blue collar Texas gals trade in their work boots and tool belts for high heels, lipstick, and men! Lexi preaches safety first at her construction site, but when shes blindsided by a hot, hard-bodied foreman, he leads her into the danger zone for steamy sex. . . and all kinds of delicious trouble. Lanie runs her auto shop, Chicks Garage, with no-nonsense efficiency. Nobody guesses the erotic adventure shes planning for a white-collar guy who needs a lady mechanic to give a kinky spin to his engine. Carlotta knows how to splice a cable or wire anything, anytime, anywhere better than any man. But when this curvy electrican meets a quiet computer guy, he has something to teach her about how to connect. . . and give up control. "Luscious. . . readers will want for nothing. . . If you read only one erotic romance this year, put [this] at the top of your list!" --The Romance Studio on Once In A Blue Moon Amie Stuart is proud to be a native Texan. She is a single mom and lives near Arlington.
Hang Him Twice (The Trail West #3)
by William W. Johnstone J. A. JohnstoneJohnstone Country. Frontier Spirit Lives Here.There are a lot of ways a man can end up on a wanted poster. There’s the easy way (murder), there’s the hard way (robbery), and then there’s Dooley Monahan’s way (by accident.) On the trail west with his trusty horse and dog, the hapless gunslinger stops a mean, hungry bear from making lunch out of the legendary Buffalo Bill Cody. In turn, Cody grubstakes Dooley for the purchase of a silver mine in the lawless, violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. Dooley can’t believe his good luck. But when he guns down three deadly outlaws, the grateful townsfolk pin a sheriff’s badge on Dooley. And that’s when his luck runs out . . .Turns out there’s a war going on between two rival gangs. Stagecoaches are being robbed every other day, and fingers are being pointed at Dooley himself. There’s a tradition here in these parts, he discovers. If a sheriff’s no good, they hang him. And if the next one’s no better, they hang him twice . . .
Hang Them Slowly (The Range Detectives #2)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE THE WILL DEFIES FEAR. Stovepipe Stewart and Wilbur Coleman look like drifters, but don’t be fooled. In this blazing Western saga, these two undercover cowboys get paid to find trouble—and to risk their lives to stomp it out. By any means necessary. Strangers. Killers. Spies. Vance Brewster is a hardworking young cowboy. Stovepipe and Wilbur are two new ranch hands working at his side. And all three are caught up in a brewing, trigger-happy Montana range war between the Rafter M and Three Rivers. Then the fury suddenly explodes—in a hail of gunfire the three men must show their hands: they’re all hiding their true identities. With Vance falling in love with the daughter of the Three Rivers manager, and Stovepipe and Wilbur paid by a tycoon who needs the violence to stop, all three are in mortal danger. Their real enemies are hiding true identities of their own—and they’re not nice men. The body count is about to go sky high . . . and Stovepipe and Wilbur would prefer not be be on top of the pile. Live Free. Read Hard.
Hang Tough (Blacktop Cowboys #8)
by Lorelei JamesIn the new Blacktop Cowboys® novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Wrapped and Strapped, one woman learns that when it comes to cowboys, looks can be deceiving... When Tobin Hale stepped in to stop Garnet Evans's son from railroading her out of her own home, he knew moving in with his favorite Mud Lily could be seen as strange. But nothing prepared him for the arrival of Garnet's fiery, beautiful granddaughter, Jade--or her assumption that he's up to no good... While Tobin might be the hottest man Jade Evans has ever seen, his physical attributes won't distract her from protecting her grandma from his sweet-talking ways. But the stubborn cowboy digs in his boot heels and refuses to leave. Stuck in close quarters together, Jade learns Tobin is the real deal--a hardworking, fiercely loyal man and she's the one in danger of losing her heart. And just when he was prepared to leave Muddy Gap behind, Tobin may have found the kind of woman worth sticking around for...
Hanging Fire (A Joe Noose Western #2)
by Eric RedJoe Noose is back—in the blistering Western series from Eric Red, the acclaimed author of The Guns of Santa Sangre and The Wolves of El Diablo. THE DEVIL IS A WOMAN In all his days as a bounty hunter, Joe Noose never met an outlaw like Bonny Kate Valence. The notorious female gunslinger has the kind of beauty that drives men wild—and a criminal record longer than the Snake River. She also has a date with the gallows. But before anyone can put a rope around that pretty neck, Joe Noose has to bring her in alive. On the way, he’ll have to protect his prisoner from a vile ex-lover and a vengeance-seeking posse. Which puts Noose’s neck on the line, too. Especially when this female of the species is deadlier than the male. . . . Praise for Eric Red’s The Guns of Sante Sangre and The Wolves of El Diablo “Blood-soaked weird west story….Red places a premium on action. Readers will enjoy.” — Publishers Weekly “Readers will rediscover an Old West genre.”—True West “In the Old West, there are bad guys and even badder guys. But Eric Red’s are the biggest baddest of all.”—Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season “Bloody fights, desert vistas [and] a touch of romance make this a fast-paced adventure.” —Library Journal
Hanging Judge and Bowie's Mine: Two Complete Novels of the American West
by Elmer KeltonHanging Judge and Bowie's Mine offers two classic novels of the Old West for one low price, by renowned Western writer Elmer Kelton. Hanging Judge Justin Moffitt is eager to help keep the peace as a deputy marshal in small-town Texas. That is, until Justin is assigned to the wrong marshal--a "hanging judge" who is as famous for his ruthlessness as he is for his commitment to justice. When Justin's boss hangs a controversial criminal, Justin must defend himself against an army of friends and relatives, desperate for revenge. Bowie’s MineDaniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife.When a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Hanging Judge: Two Complete Novels Of The American West
by Elmer KeltonElmer Kelton, voted "The Greatest Western Writer of All Time" by the Western Writers of America, is a legend in the field of Western literature. Famous for his realistic characters and accurate depictions of the history of his home state of Texas, Elmer Kelton continues to write exceptional novels of American history.In Hanging Judge, Justin Moffitt is eager to help keep the peace as a deputy marshal in small-town Texas. That is, until Justin is assigned to the wrong marshal-a "hanging judge" who is as famous for his ruthlessness as he is for his commitment to justice. When Justin's boss hangs a controversial criminal, Justin must defend himself against an army of friends and relatives, desperate for revenge.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Hanging Valley
by Jack BallasA stagecoach ambushed on the outskirts of Durango, Colorado, results in a young woman being kidnapped and one witness foolish enough to trail the attackers to save the girl--which was Lingo Barnes's first mistake. His second mistake is taking Emily Lou Colter back to the valley where he learns about her father and brother and the mine they operate--which was the real target of the kidnappers.