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Wanton Angel
by Elizabeth ChadwickPassion burns between a lawyer and the sister of a cathouse madam in this fiery Western romance from the bestselling author. Her beauty was intoxicating. Drunk on passion, in the midst of the burning town of Amnonville and among the flames eating away at the Fallen Angel brothel where he found her, Aaron Court mistakenly took Susanna&’s innocence. When he discovered that she was not the Gold Rush&’s newest lady for hire but the naive younger sister of the brothel&’s owner, Court realized that he had a lot of explaining to do. But he could not forget her sizzling embrace, luscious lips, or burning passion. Although he was determined to save her reputation, Court could not resist her ever-present temptation.
Wanton Angel
by Linda Lael MillerA sensually thrilling novel from one of America&’s favorite storytellers, bestselling author Linda Lael Miller, Wanton Angel captures the blazing passions inside a daring woman&’s heart. Her free spirit carried her far away—but her passionate heart never left home... When Bonnie McKutchen left her wealthy husband in a storm of heartache and betrayal, she fled New York with nothing but the dress on her back. Eli McKutchen finally caught up with her in a Washington mining town, outraged to find his beautiful wife dancing for money in a gaudy saloon. Yet as his temper flared, so did his passion...for nothing could extinguish Bonnie&’s blazes once she set them. Tormented with desire by his every touch, Bonnie yielded to the wild delight of her husband&’s embrace. Time and again she vowed to resist, and was sweetly defeated. But with savage pride, she denied her love...even at the risk of losing him forever!
War at Fire Creek
by JuddTHE THRILLING CONCLUSION OF THE CARRIGAN BROTHERS SERIES HELL ON THE RANGE Liam and Joseph Carrigan's quest to find their long-lost Uncle Patrick ends when they finally reach western Montana. Their joyful reunion is short-lived, however, as Patrick is embroiled in a bloody land war with powerful rancher Bret Ellison. Liam and Joseph take up their uncle's cause in their own ways: Liam leaning toward hard action, and Joseph wanting to use diplomacy to find out why Ellison despises their uncle so viciously. After Joseph's attempts at playing peacemaker lead to his being taken hostage by Ellison, Patrick valiantly turns himself over in exchange for his nephew, placing himself at the mercy of his worst enemy. Now, after enduring all the trials of the trail, the Carrigans risk losing the only family they have left. Their last hope is a daring shoot-and-run rescue that can only end with one side the final victor -- and the other side dead.
War Chief (The White Indian Series #3)
by Donald Clayton PorterChained side by side with the fiery Consuelo in a Caribbean dungeon, Renno shares her degradation--until, together, they dare a thrilling escape. THE MAN. Through the Seneca forests that were his home, to the forts of English settlers, across pirate-plundered seas, savage tropical jungles, and the teeming horror of the Everglades, Renno the White Indian blazes a trail of hard-won peace and legendary valor. THE WOMEN. Chained side by side with the fiery Consuelo in a Caribbean dungeon, Renno shares her degradation--until, together, they dare a thrilling escape. And, bound by desire, he takes to his heart the Virginian beauty Betsy--to make her his wife and the mother of his child.
War Comes to the Big Bend: A Western Story
by Zane GreyA wheat farmer is torn between allegiances while fighting to keep the woman he loves in this epic of the First World War!It's 1917, and the United States is about to enter the First World War. The wheat farms of rural Washington State have become an important resource in winning the war. Kurt Dorn is a wheat farmer born of a German father and an American mother, and his family's farm contains some of the finest wheat grown anywhere. But a Bolshevik band, calling itself the Industrial Workers of the World, led by a spy financed by imperial Germany, and, secretly, by a German wheat magnate, seeks to stop Dorn's wheat from getting in Allied hands.Meanwhile, Dorn has fallen in love with Lenore Anderson, the daughter of a wealthy farmer who wants Dorn to supervise his empire and prevent the destructive IWW from ruining everything. But Dorn loses the battle to keep his farm, and instead of fighting from the home front, decides to take up arms and enlist in the US Army. Dorn will now be forced to choose between his patriotism, his love for Lenore, and his desire for revenge in a tale that spans continents and delivers a sobering message of the horrors of war.Heavily edited upon its original publication in 1918, this edition of War Comes to the Big Bend has been restored from Grey's original handwritten manuscript, and showcases the full vision of a master storyteller.
War Cries
by David William RossSEASON OF VENGEANCE Between the Gulf of Mexico and the high plains lies a golden land claimed by a proud warrior people. Now strangers-- unwanted intruders who call themselves Texans--have arrived to challenge the noble Comanche. Soon there will be war in this place where their ancestors rode and hunted--and this land that cannot be shared will be washed in blood and tears. In this time of violence, Libby and Jody Holister have come to build a new life in a rich and fertile valley. But explosive and unstable confrontations now threaten everything they have dared to cherish. For they have settled in the eye of a hurricane of treachery, hatred and greed--a killing storm that will test the resilience of their spirits... and the strength of their dreams.
War Cry (The White Indian Series #7)
by Donald Clayton PorterThe continuing saga of Renno, the white Indian.
War Eagles
by Len LevinsonIn the North, a lanky lawyer named Abraham Lincoln was recovering from a brutal political setback. In the South, eloquent U.S. Senator Jefferson Davis was risking all in a race for governor of his native Mississippi. And far to the Southwest, the future of the frontier was being decided as the U.S. Army, under Colonel Bull Moose Sumner, faced the growing alliance of Native Americans led by the great Mangas Coloradas and determined to defend their ancestral lands. For First Lieutenant Nathanial Barrington it was his first test as a professional soldier following orders he distrusted in an undeclared war without conscience or quarter-and his test as a man when he met the Apache woman warrior Jocita in a night lit by passion that would yield to a day of dark decisions...War Eagles. The tremendous second novel of the authentic Apache Wars Saga epic series that began with Desert Hawks.
War of the Mountain Man (The Last Mountain Man #7)
by William W. JohnstoneRocky Mountain Showdown <P><P> Big Max Higgins ran the outlaw town of Hell's Creek up in the north Montana Rockies... and he decided to include the nearby town of Barlow in his cutthroat operation. What he didn't know was that Smoke Jensen was there with his wife, visiting relatives.<P> It didn't take Smoke long to rout out the lot of them with angry fists and blazing guns... but Smoke didn't count on Big Max doing something as daring, desperate, and stupid as kidnapping his wife--and demanding the town of Barlow itself as ransom.<P> Soon Big Max Higgins would look up and see the last mountain man riding down the middle of the street with reins in his teeth and both hands filled with .44s. Big Max had always wanted to make a name for himself, and he was going to get it, too--carved on his gravestone.
War on Bear Creek
by Robert E. HowardRobert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 - June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. This is one of his western stories.
War on the Cimarron (Center Point Western Standard (large Print) Ser.)
by Luke ShortTwo cattle punchers share a dream of making it big—until one of them is murdered—in this suspenseful western from an award-winning author. Frank Christian and Morg Wheelon were going to build something great. After the two veteran cattle punchers saved up enough to start their own outfit, Frank was to ride down to Texas and buy whatever herd he could, then bring them up the Chisholm Trail through Indian country to the rich grasslands of the Cheyenne in Wyoming. Morg would be waiting with the grazing rights in hand. It was a risky plan, but Frank and Morg weren&’t about to give up their dream. But when Frank arrives with the herd, Morg has been murdered. The land has been stolen by a gang of outlaws, and a corrupt army officer wants to bring Frank down. Frank has never backed away from trouble, however, no matter how long the odds. To avenge his friend&’s death and keep their hopes alive, the small-time cowpuncher must become a world-class gunslinger. A winner of the Levi Strauss Golden Saddleman Award from the Western Writers of America, Luke Short was a master of the frontier epic. War on the Cimarron is one of his most thrilling and unforgettable tales of the Old West.
War Party: Stories (Sacketts #10)
by Louis L'AmourBud Miles was a boy when he crossed the Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man ... Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight--a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold--knowing that someone wanted him dead ... Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a failure on the frontier. But when the chips were down, she was the only one who could save her husband's life ... In these marvelous stories of the West, Louis L'Amour tells of travelers, gunfighters, homesteaders, and adventurers: men and women making hard and sudden choices and fighting battles that could cut a person's life short--or open up a bold new future on the American frontier.From the Paperback edition.
War Path
by Kerry NewcombAs France and Britain wage battle over America, one man takes the war into his own handsTwo lines of Abenaki Indians stand between the settlers and freedom. Each holds a fearsome club, and each is eager to kill. Survive the gauntlet, and the white men are free to go. None but Johnny Stark is up to the task. A mountain of a man, used to spending months at a time in the untamed wilderness of North America, he beats the Indians at their own game, disarming one of the warriors and using his club to fight his way to survival. It is a miracle escape, one that the Abenaki will sing of for generations. This is only the start of the legend of Johnny Stark.When France and Britain go to war over their North American colonies, the Native American tribes are forced to choose sides. In the middle is Stark, who owes allegiance to no crown, but will do whatever it takes to ensure that the frontier remains free for as long as he draws breath.
War Scout (Wildgun #5)
by Jack HansonWhile south of the border, rumblings of war distract Will Barlow from his search for his daughter-and land him in jail as a spy.
War Valley (A Hank Gannon Western #1)
by Lancaster HillIn this powerful new series, a Confederate veteran heads west to start a new life—and gets caught in the middle of a new kind of war . . . WAR VALLEY Hank Gannon grew up on a Florida plantation. He fought alongside his brothers-in-arms in the Civil War. Then he joined the Texas Special Police to help build a more peaceful union—and a future for his beloved Constance. That was the plan. But when a prisoner dies in his custody, Gannon is forced to leave Austin and head into Comanche territory. Alone but undaunted, he meets up with Roving Wolf— who has just slain a former soldier from his unit. Gannon can’t let the killing go unpunished. Even here, in this Godforsaken valley, the law must be upheld . . . On the one side is a bloodthirsty war party of Indians, heading for the white man’s capital. On the other side is a makeshift army of Texas Special Police and the Texas State Guard, ready to meet the threat head-on. In the middle are Hank Gannon and Roving Wolf, waging their own blood feud. Two men trapped in a war. Fighting to survive their mutual hate. Killing to get out alive . . .
Warlock
by Robert Stone Oakley HallOakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, Warlock is not only one of the most original and entertaining of modern American novels but a lasting contribution to American fiction."Tombstone, Arizona, during the 1880's is, in ways, our national Camelot: a never-never land where American virtues are embodied in the Earps, and the opposite evils in the Clanton gang; where the confrontation at the OK Corral takes on some of the dry purity of the Arthurian joust. Oakley Hall, in his very fine novel Warlock has restored to the myth of Tombstone its full, mortal, blooded humanity. Wyatt Earp is transmogrified into a gunfighter named Blaisdell who . . . is summoned to the embattled town of Warlock by a committee of nervous citizens expressly to be a hero, but finds that he cannot, at last, live up to his image; that there is a flaw not only in him, but also, we feel, in the entire set of assumptions that have allowed the image to exist. . . . Before the agonized epic of Warlock is over with--the rebellion of the proto-Wobblies working in the mines, the struggling for political control of the area, the gunfighting, mob violence, the personal crises of those in power--the collective awareness that is Warlock must face its own inescapable Horror: that what is called society, with its law and order, is as frail, as precarious, as flesh and can be snuffed out and assimilated back into the desert as easily as a corpse can. It is the deep sensitivity to abysses that makes Warlock one of our best American novels. For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall's to remind us how far that piece of paper, still fluttering brightly behind us, has to fall." --Thomas Pynchon
Warpath of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man #28)
by William W. JohnstoneTHE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY When an old friend’s family is massacred, legendary mountain man Smoke Jensen hits the vengeance trail. He’s soon riding into a bloody Colorado war that has militia cavalry volunteers and Kiowa warriors stalking each other across the territory—matching kill for kill, outrage for outrage. Defying both sides, Smoke uncovers a sinister conspiracy to set ranchers and Kiowas at each other’s throats. It turns out that the war’s been cooked up by renegade Jack Tatum and his outlaw band, who stand to reap a fortune in gold by selling illegal guns and whiskey to the Indians. High atop the Rockies, a blizzard’s white hell sets the stage for the final showdown with Tatum’s bloody gang, as the mountain man unleashes an avalanche of destruction. Now his enemies are about to learn that the only thing Smoke Jensen sells is death…wholesale.
Warrior Heart (The Wolf McCloud Novels #4)
by Jane BonanderWhen a father returns home to reclaim his daughter, a heated conflict with the woman who raised her turns to a chance for love in this western romance. California, 1891. After losing his wife in a violent attack, Jackson Wolfe ran from his grief and his guilt, leaving behind his baby daughter to be raised by strangers. Twelve years later, he knows it&’s time to quit running. He&’s had his fill of revenge. It&’s time to settle down and take up a new mantle: father to Dawn Twilight. He knows that if he finds her, he&’ll be the best father a little girl ever had. But when he arrives in the town of Thief River to be the new sheriff and claim his daughter, her adoptive mother has other plans. Liberty O&’Malley has never loved anyone like she loves Dawn. But in the court of law, she knows she has little chance of keeping her against the will of the town&’s new sheriff. Yet even in the pain of her heart she can see a way to nurture the seeds of love. But to do it, she&’ll have to soothe Jackson&’s wounded heart first . . . &“Jane Bonander reaches to her readers&’ hearts.&” —RT Book Reviews
Warrior Moon (A Southwestern Saga)
by Sara OrwigA Kiowa man and a white woman are drawn together by passion—but distanced by distrust—in &“a mesmerizing read&” by the USA Today-bestselling author (Affaire de Coeur). Vanessa&’s father controls a railroad, and can summon the military with a single word—yet he cannot control his fierce and beautiful daughter. When Vanessa stumbles across a wounded Kiowa brave, she knows at first glance that this powerful warrior is a man she will fear, then heal, then love. Lone Wolf&’s land was ravished and his people were murdered by outsiders, leaving him with a searing hatred and insatiable appetite for revenge. But the moment he beholds Vanessa, he is drawn to her captivating beauty and willful spirit. But is his love for her strong enough to snuff out the fire of loathing he harbors for her people?
Warrior Son
by Rita HerronA NATIVE SON ON A STRANGER'S LAND Deputy Sheriff Roan Whitefeather never thought he'd set foot on Horseshoe Creek. He was from a different world. But when the ranch's patriarch dies unexpectedly, Roan suspects foul play. And so does Dr. Megan Lail. Roan has been trying to avoid the beautiful medical examiner since the one incredible night they spent in each other's arms. After all, they had work to do. But crossing paths again only stirs up old feelings-and an even older web of murder and deception. The deeper he investigates, the more he realizes everyone has secrets. What will they do when they discover Roan holds the biggest secret of them all?
Warrior Woman: The Exceptional Life Story of Nonhelema, Shawnee Indian Woman Chief
by James Alexander Thom Dark Rain ThomA bestselling master of historical fiction, James Alexander Thom has brought unforgettable Native American figures to life for millions of readers, powerfully dramatizing their fortitude, fearsomeness, and profound fates. Now he and his wife, Dark Rain, have created a magnificent portrait of an astonishing woman--one who led her people in war when she could not persuade them to make peace. Her name was Nonhelema. Literate, lovely, imposing at over six feet tall, she was the Women's Peace Chief of the Shawnee Nation--and already a legend when the most decisive decade of her life began in 1774. That fall, with more than three thousand Virginians poised to march into the Shawnees' home, Nonhelema's plea for peace was denied. So she loyally became a fighter, riding into battle covered in war paint. When the Indians ran low on ammunition, Nonhelema's role changed back to peacemaker, this time tragically. Negotiating an armistice with military leaders of the American Revolution like Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark, she found herself estranged from her own people-and betrayed by her white adversaries, who would murder her loved ones and eventually maim Nonhelema herself. Throughout her inspiring life, she had many deep and complex relationships, including with her daughter, Fani, who was an adopted white captive ... a pious and judgmental missionary, Zeisberger ... a series of passionate lovers ... and, in a stunning creation of the Thoms, Justin Case--a cowardly soldier transformed by the courage he saw in the female Indian leader. Filled with the uncanny period detail and richly rendered drama that are Thom trademarks, Warrior Woman is a memorable novel of a remarkable person-one willing to fight to avoid war, by turns tough and tender, whose heart was too big for the world she wished to tame.
The Warriors (Wells Fargo Trail Book #7)
by Jim WalkerZac, Joe, and James Cobb receive telegrams sending them to Santa Fe. There they learn that the U.S. government wants them to travel into Mexico to rescue their brother Julian and save the government of President Diaz. Along the way, they encounter two women who work for the president's enemy. Sequel to The Oyster Pirates.
Warrior's Baby
by Sheri WhiteFeather"HAVE MY BABY."Be the mother of Colt Raintree's child? For Melanie Richards, this request was a dream come true. To be near the tempting Native American once more, to have him touch her, caress her, call out for her... But Colt didn't know her real name, and his offer didn't include the word forever.Melanie knew the price she'd pay to bear her warrior's baby. For how would Colt ever forgive her quiet deception? How could he understand that she had thrown even more than passion into their strictly business arrangement? If only she could bare her soul and tell her lover the truth: "I'll have your child but I'll have your heart first."
The Warrior's Captive Bride
by Jenna KernanHis wife for two moons...? Plagued by a mysterious sickness, Crow warrior Night Storm captures the witch he believes cursed him. But his anticipated revenge dissolves when he realizes that beautiful Skylark might be the only one who can provide a cure... Skylark agrees to pose as Night Storm's wife so she can find a way to heal him. But when an unexpected desire flares, Sky's mission changes and she'll do everything in her power to find a way to make their arrangement last a lifetime!
Warriors of the Night (The Medal #4)
by Kerry NewcombIn the Texas desert, a soldier fights Rangers, Indians, and the woman he lovesDoña Anabel Cordero gallops across the moonlit desert, a tribe of Comanche warriors at her heels. She is the daughter of the country&’s greatest bandit, who was cut down by the Texas Rangers against whom Doña Anabel has sworn vengeance, and the Comanche do not scare her. But when a well-meaning soldier, Ben McQueen, mistakes her for a damsel on a runaway horse and slows her mount, the warriors surround them. With McQueen&’s help, Doña Anabel escapes the Comanche . . . but their fight is just beginning.A savage cult roams the moonlit desert, exacting terrible vengeance on all who cross their path. With the help of a fearless Ranger named Snake Eye, McQueen sets out to bring order to the frontier. But when Doña Anabel&’s cause runs up against his own, McQueen will have to choose between his country and the woman he loves.