Young Daniel Wade worked hard to avoid the battling militias in Missouri in 1860. On the one side were those allied with the Southern cause, and on the other, those committed to preserving the Union.
A HARD-LUCK BRANDOnce Mack Jarvis went to work for the Tomahawk brand in Pioneer Valley, it didn't take him long to fall in love with the owner's daughter, Rosella Wade. He knew it would take money to
CAPTIVE!Ella Mae Campbell traveled west with her family in a wagon train in 1860. But she never made it to Denver City with them. During a terrifying attack on the wagon train, young Ella Mae was take
TROUBLE BREWINGMart Joliffe and his pa owned the Tincup cattle ranch high in the Colorado storm country, up near the Utah border. When sheep rancher John Robineau moved his sheep herd onto Tincup graz
Jane Candia Coleman is a magical storyteller who spins brilliant tales of human survival, hope, and courage on the American frontier, and nowhere is her marvelous talent more in evidence than in this
LAW OF THE ROPEGideon Cooper Smith founded the Double Circle C Ranch in the shadow of Deadman Peak in the Colorado Rockies. Life wasn't easy, but with the help of some hired hands, he was able to live
AN UNSEEN ENEMYWill Parry lost an arm in the Civil War, but he found the strength to carry on with his life, to build a future for himself and his family on a ranch in the Wyoming Rockies. But that br
With his eye for historical detail and unique ability to see into the hearts of his characters, Steve Frazee captures the very essence of the American West. In these five stories, Frazee draws on his
FIGHT OR DIEFor Sergeant Gil Metairie and other Confederate prisoners during the War Between the States, life in captivity was more dangerous than fighting in the front lines. Every day brought more c
The fifth vampire romance by bestselling author Madeline Baker writing as Amanda Ashley! Lost in darkness, Grigori found new sustenance in the light of Marisa's love, and new purpose in his life. Only
Loch is seeking revenge.It would help if she wasn’t in jail.The plan: to steal a priceless elven manuscript that once belonged to her family, but now is in the hands of the most powerful man in the Re
It began in Sienna, with an illicit kiss stolen under a hot Mediterranean sun. It made the blood sing in her veins, burn in her body in ways—in places—that she had never felt before. It was a pulsing
A CLASSIC TRIOMax Brand created a number of immortal Western characters in his brilliant career, and certainly one of the most popular was Reata, the man who preferred a lasso to a gun. In the title s
MOUNTAIN PASSIONTrapped in a loveless marriage, Lark Elliot longed to lead a normal life like the pretty women she saw in town, to wear new clothes and be courted by young suitors. But she had married
When Chase Donlin receives a letter from his dying stepsister in Idaho, he never hesitates before agreeing to care for Anne's daughter, his niece in all but blood. Yet Chase never dreams that "little"
THEIRS WAS A TALE OF TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPHFour children abandoned in an orphanage. Two missing parents. One man whose hatred had divided a family, whose duplicity ended in murder, inextricably weaving a
MAN IN THE MIDDLEJames Geraldi thought he was finally getting his life in order—he was square with the law and ready to settle down with his beautiful fiancee, Mary. Yet the thief who only stole from
DANGER ON THE DRIVEFormer Confederate officer Bill Warren, better known as the Pecos Kid, has been one of Western fiction's most beloved characters since Dan Cushman created him in 1950. Collected in
A beautiful saloon singer and a handsome bar owner find love in the rugged West, in this historical romance from the author of "Willow" and "Kentucky Bride".
As fresh and enchanting as a new snowfall, Laura had always adored Fletcher Thomas. Yet she feared she would never win the trapper's heart—until one passion-filled night in his father's barn. Lost in
WRONGLY ACCUSEDAbner Meadows was only trying to get out of the storm when he sought shelter in the cave. Little did he realize he was about to be embroiled in an even greater maelstrom with one of the
Tom Horn was real. History shows that he actually lived—and died—in the West. But his life has passed now into legend, and his death remains clouded in mystery. No one doubts that he was an army scout
Amid the majestic peaks of Wyoming's mountains, Kane Roemer falls in love at first sight—with a white stallion that has no equal anywhere in the West. But before Kane can ride the magnificent beast of
Logan Huett is a former Army scout who discovers magnificent Sycamore Canon in central Arizona, where he intends to homestead. With some trepidation he wires East to the woman he had courted back in M
A HARD TRAILCuff Lockwood has had enough of cold. He's worked a number of years in Montana as a rangeman and wants to live where there's no snow in the winter. So he sets out for New Mexico, a place w
As he so aptly demonstrated in his novel Open Range, which was made into a movie starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, Lauran Paine is one of the West's most powerful storytellers. In the title no
In an effort to temper the sons who were beyond his control in his lifetime, Ike Banner leaves specific instructions in his will regarding his property, but the angry young men he leaves behind vow to
HIS OWN LAWSheriff Frank Ulring wasn't above getting rid of people in order to get what he wanted—and right now what he wanted was Bethany McAllister. The only thing in his way was her husband. So Ulr
Three classic short novels from an undisputed master of Western fiction! "The Outlaw Crew" is the tale of gold fever and survival in a frontier mining town. In "The Coward", a man humiliated in a gunf
Collected here for the first time in paperback are three of Max Brand's greatest short novels, all restored to their original splendor, just as the author intended. In "The Red Bandanna", Clancy Morga
THE LAW OF THE WEST!No one knew—or wrote about—the West like Max Brand, as shown brilliantly in the three classic short novels collected in this volume. Each novel has been carefully restored to Brand
Raised in a bawdy house, Jonty Rand has posed as a boy all her life to escape notice of the rowdy cowboys who frequent the place. When her granny's dying wish makes womanizer Cord McBain her guardian,
Sixteen In Nome is narrated by young Joe May, an Arizonian who has come to Alaska to "make his stake for a ranch." Joe finds being on his own difficult as he reflects "Sixteen is a bad age for a boy.
Here are three of Max Brand's classic short novels, all carefully restored from Brand's own manuscripts, and collected in paperback for the first time. In "Range Jester," Barry Home, once a free spiri
Everyone in Big Iron knew how vicious Gabe Hawks could get when he was drunk. But Gabe was the son of a powerful rancher, and when Marcy Clayborne accidentally killed him in self-defense, the powerful
The Bank of California in the 1860s is a powerful company that pays its mine workers very little and will not tolerate strikes, sending in vicious strikebreakers to beat down any opposition. When Majo
"The most exacting, yet the most rewarding job in the world"—that was how Gail thought of her job as the only woman physician at Thayer Hospital—and indeed the only woman doctor in Beauchamp, where fo
In 1845, California was still a colony of Mexico, and tensions were mounting against the United States. Monterey closed its ports to all American ships, and Roger Bardine, the U.S. Consul, was missing
In the title novella of this collection, restored to the author's original intentions, the incomparable Les Savage, Jr. combines the thrills, action and romance of the traditinal Western with gripping
As soon as Jake Slade and his partner, Three Fingers Bent, arrived in the small Texas town of New Gideon, they knew no one wanted them there. There'd been some rustling in the area, and folks weren't
