Native American West

A spoiled English Lady rebels against the half-Native American half-English sea smuggler forced to be her husband and they discover the thrill of impetuous passion. Smuggled aboard a ship bound for the colonies, the English lady Keely Bartholomew is ill-prepared for life in America, much less the devilish half-breed captain Brock Forrester. This man, the illegitimate son of a Lenni-Lenape man and an English woman, is used to having his own way. When the tall, brawny, mixed-race man caresses her and holds her in his massive arms, looking at her with eyes as black as night, the heiress is ...

DEADLY SECRETS OF THE TREE SPIRITS. When a member of Seattle's Duwamish Tribe is accused of murder, Dr. Peyton McKean is called in to unravel a dense tangle of clues among the majestic trees of a Pacific Northwest rainforest. The victim, cedar-tree poacher Bradley Olafsen, was found dead beside traces of a freshly removed cedar log and police detectives have fingered an old derelict found raving nearby. Henry George, a native with a grudge against modern society, stands accused of killing Olafsen to avenge the death of the tree. George's mad utterances about ghost tree spirits and his ...

It’s 1806. A young republic just three decades old - the United States of America - is about to make a great push westward, across the Mississippi, into a wild, beautiful, and dangerous land. A territory of towering mountains and violent waters, of icy glaciers and searing deserts. The great northwest. It is a time and a place where fortunes will be made, destinies will be revealed, and legends will rise.

Calling Crow travels down the Southeast coast in search of his wife, Juana, taken by the Spanish. He is captured and badly wounded by the Coosa people. Unable to care for himself, he is saved from a slow, painful death and nursed back to health by Green Bird Woman, who he grows to love. Adopted by the Coosa, Calling Crow becomes their chief. One day word arrives that French Protestant colonists have settled to the north. Then, Spanish Catholic colonists settle near Calling Crow's village and he discovers that Juana is among them.

Investigating a suspicious double suicide in the Mojave Desert, Zack Tolliver, FBI and Eagle Feather must determine if a crime was committed and solve it under increasing threat from persons unknown. They need clues, but the desert sand leaves no trace. This fifth novel of the Zack Tolliver, FBI series contains all the elements of a suspenseful crime mystery: buried treasure, romance, a western gunfight, lurking danger, and murder—all cloaked within ancient Native American legends.

Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. This audiobook is about Fort Sarpy, the American Fur Company men who dared to build it in the wilderness, and the Crow tribe, who owe their existence to its creation.

It all started with a storm, a real gully washer, the type that comes racing across the plains with driving rain, howling winds, and hail as big as your fist. If it hadn't been for the stranger in buckskins, the Jakes family would have been in serious trouble. Little did they know, the storm was just the beginning of their struggles. They'd come to Colorado to raise a new breed of horse. Along the trail they would follow were new friends, old enemies, and the land. At times it was hard to tell which ones were the most dangerous.

Set in the rugged frontier of the West, this unforgettable sequel to Janet Dailey's best selling novel The Proud and the Free begins when Lije Stuart, the handsome son of Temple and The Blade Stuart, returns to the Cherokee Nation after 4 years at Harvard. As the American Civil War rages across the country, the Stuarts, too, are torn apart by an old family feud.

***Edgy Inspirational Novel - Love scenes are consummated*** ***Western & Historical*** The year is 1886, Halona Ackerman’s life and land have been plagued with calamity for three long years. The country heiress knows most of her enemies, but there is no evidence to trace the frequent accidents and her father’s untimely death back to any of them. Until that happens, she has to keep her parents' legacy going even at the expense of her own dreams. A citified lawyer named Adam Thorpe shows up in the small town of Miskito, Nebraska with all the wrong intentions and a deep, dark secret to ...

Grace Partridge returns to Tucson with laundered loot from the bank robbery. Trinity's on the job again. Cool, funny, sympathetic, and gritty. Fans of Elmore Leonard and Richard Stark will enjoy the pitch-perfect dialogue in the Trinity novels. Seventh in the Frank Trinity Crime Novel series.

Enjoy this sweet cowboy book by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… He won’t allow anyone to run roughshod over his heart again… The rodeo circuit gave cowboy Dawson Blackhorse an escape after his racist boss destroyed every one of his dreams, making it clear no man who was part-Navajo would buy his ranch or court his daughter. But when the rodeo unexpectedly brings Dawson to the tiny mountain town of Sawyer, Idaho, he comes face to face with everything he lost. She’s never been able to forget the man who abandoned her... The quiet life Chloe leads is shattered the day Dawson ...

After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is well-documented, the other untested but rumoured to be shorter. Donner’s decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him. The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand.

Guy Thornton’s dreams for his new ranch on the outskirts of the small, southern Arizona town of Sonoita have hit an impasse: his wife is away in Tucson caring for her ailing father; his Yaqui housekeeper is busy participating in her tribe’s 40-day Lenten observances; and JC, the troubled teenager entrusted to him, has gone missing. When Guy’s son, Trick, rides out to investigate, he encounters the unknowable worlds of the Surem, the ancient Yaqui spirits who trouble and assist lost travelers, and returns bloodied, confused, and empty-handed. So Jasmine, Trick’s former classmate, ...

Most of Guy Thornton’s family is thriving on their ranch in southern Arizona, but Samson the mule has grown old and his caretaker, Jasmine, has been struggling with depression since her mother’s recent death. Star insists Guy take them to a Mojave Ghost Doctor living on the Colorado River near Parker where Guy’s son Trick is starting his career as a large animal vet. The old Mojave man’s “cure” involves the family in a mind-bending journey along the Colorado River and a nearly-deadly encounter with his vengeful son and his friends. Book Seven of The Arizona Series—novels ...

People of the Sun follows Guy Thornton’s adventure-packed horseback journey across Arizona’s Mogollon Rim to his claim his young son, Trick, who he’s never met, at a school near Prescott. The life and stories of Trick’s Yavapai mother interweave with the present-time narrative of Trick’s rebellion, and recounts how Star, a Sedona-based life coach and healer, helps Guy reconcile with a suddenly altered future. Book Five of The Arizona Series – novels intertwining Native American mythologies with western/adventure/romances set in the modern American West.

In A Circle of Stars is an epic adventure revolving around the aftermath of one of the most famous battles in American History, The Battle of the Little Bighorn, only this time it's told as fiction from the point of view of the Native Americans who won the battle. Custer is dead, Sitting Bull is fearful about what revenge the U.S. Army is about to take on his people and Fallen Hawk, the fictional young warrior who killed Custer in the book, is still not satisfied his revenge is complete. Days later, it appears to Fallen Hawk that it's the U.S. Army that's taken revenge when he discovers his...

A spring morning in Montana is shattered when Joseph Smith emerges from his tepee and his young wife is shot dead at his feet. He races after his wife's murderer but kills Three Pigs before he finds why the man murdered his bride. He returns to Bannack, where his three other wives fall victim to the plot against Smith and where Smith and his sidekick extract a bloody, Old West-style revenge.

The ancient desert O’odham people’s creation stories parallel the path a young Guy Thornton takes to emerge from the “maze” he has made of his life. The novel opens in the center of the narrative as Guy, a down-on-his-luck Arabian horse trainer fresh out of prison, is getting drunk at the Wander On Inn. He spends the next several months living in the central Arizona desert with an elderly O’odham woman who seeks to teach him “tribe spirit,” while alternating chapters recount the past and his big break when the wealthy Frank Fielding hires him to tend to his champion Arabian ...

The Denver Post hails Craig Johnson's Walt Longmire mystery series as a must-listen. Joining the four previous novels - all of which have been Book Sense picks - The Dark Horse puts a unique Wyoming twist on the classic British village mystery. When Longmire meets a woman jailed for her husband's death, he travels outside his usual haunts to discover the truth behind this unusual murder case.

Enticed by the lovely Professor Sylvia Spelling and guided by an ancient journal, Native American gunfighter Lone Crow plunges into the haunted desert wastes in search of the fabled golden domes of the Seventh City of Cibola. Joining them in their quest is Temple Houston, the son of the famous Sam Houston, the Mormon gunman Porter Rockwell, a former tong hatchetman, the madam of an El Paso brothel, and her troublemaking son. But they aren't the only ones interested in the legendary treasure troves of the Seventh City. One of Professor Spelling's rival colleagues has hired his own bunch of ...