Western Adventure

Sixty-five million years ago, a disastrous cataclysm eliminated three quarters of all life on Earth. Overnight, the age of dinosaurs ended. The age of mammals had begun. But what if history had happened differently? What if the reptiles had survived to evolve into intelligent life? In West of Eden, best-selling author Harry Harrison has created a rich, dramatic saga of a world where the descendants of the dinosaurs struggled with a clan of humans in a battle for survival.

Barclay Of The Mounted is the memoir of a young man who, looking for adventure and glory, joins the newly formed North-West Mounted Police. Henry Barclay, a native of Toronto travels west to “to keep the peace and maintain the right of all.” Barclay is an educated young man who quotes everything from Byron to The Bible, and from Shakespeare to Shelley. He sees the western frontier lacking only in culture and he is never without his copy of The Best Loved Poems of Our Time. The Western Territories of Canada are vast and in his varied duties, Barclay encounters whiskey traders, native ...

When she suddenly disappeared from his life, he broke. Now she’s back for his ranch. Lane Larsen has one dream left: run his own horse ranch. When a billionaire asks him to take care of racehorses, Lane has to find a stable or lose the opportunity of a lifetime. Maxine is scared to return to Sweet Springs, but her family needs her. She tries to keep her head down, but there are no secrets in a small town – and old trouble is quick to knock on her new door. When Lane and Maxine meet again, old wounds burn and tempers flare until it hurts not only them, but others. Can they find the ...

He’s the one man she never thought she’d see again—and the one she can’t resist. Brant Foxfire didn’t expect his routine day at the office to take a wild turn, but when Hayley Graff walks into his orthodontist practice with her young son, it’s like a jolt from the past. The stunning blonde who caught his attention years ago is back—and this time, she’s a single mom with an air of mystery and a smile that knocks the wind out of him. Hayley has built a life of independence in Reedy, Wyoming, determined to protect her son and keep her past in the rearview. But seeing Brant ...

A trio of outlaws are released from an orbiting prison and sent back to their home planet. The catch? Find the president's missing son, and you’ll be pardoned by the Federation. Welcome to the desert planet of Lazarus, the hottest place in the universe inhabited by humans. It’s not only the heat that will kill you. Lazarus is also home to a spectrum of deadly creatures who have clawed out a living in the harsh desert, and they don’t take kindly to visitors. Not to mention the gangs of vicious bandits roving the land in search of anyone to kill and steal from. As descendants of tough ...

The Sky Door… A test flight. A mysterious rift. A journey across time that will change two lives forever. When Lieutenant Jessica Monroe breaks the sound barrier in the Navy's experimental X-99 fighter jet, she expects to return to base with performance data—not crash-land in 1875 Montana. Stranded in a world of horse-drawn carriages and frontier justice, this elite pilot must adapt her 21st-century skills to a harsh landscape where her technology is useless and her very presence is suspicious. Ethan Blackwood, a former sheriff haunted by tragedy, discovers the strange woman in uniform ...

Whether you kill one man or a hundred, in the end, you only hang once... Deputy Marshal Porter Rockwell can't be harmed by a bullet or a blade but the prophecy about his invulnerability never mentioned a rope. Imprisoned for the supposed murder of a young girl, Porter might be on the verge of allowing the hangman his due. It falls to his friends Roxy and Quincy to make him understand the burden of a lawman, even one as infamous as himself. But dark forces lie in wait to try and end the career and life of this most amazing gunslinger. Bullet and blade might not be what finally take Rockwell ...

They came from the sea: a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother.... A former pirate named “Black Terrance” Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it would be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird’s beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner — Conrad Morgan, son of the legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan.

The newspapers call them the Devil's Horde. A well-oiled team of cutthroat bandits who terrorize the Northern Pacific Railway on route to the coast through Dakota Territory. They dynamite the tracks, blow open the express car door, murder the crewmen, rob the passengers, and empty the safe of gold and cash. If Wells Fargo & Company can't find a way to stop the Devil's Horde, there'll be hell to pay. Enter Wolf Stockburn. A tall rangy Scotsman who dresses like a gentleman but shoots like a cowboy, Stockburn learned his craft from a legendary gunfighter.

From the moment they left their homestead unguarded on that scorching Texas day, Martin Pauley and Amos Edwards became searchers. First they had to return to the decimated ranch, bury the bodies of their family, and confront the evil cunning of the Comanche who had slaughtered them. Then they set out in pursuit of missing Debbie Edwards. In the years that follow, Amos and Martin survive storms of nature and of men, seeking more than a missing girl, and more than revenge. Both are driven by secrets, guilt, love, and rage.

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 ...

Let’s get this out of the way: The Bounty Hunter isn’t perfect. And I’m okay with that. Perfection is a moving target—subjective, slippery, and frankly, kind of boring. What I wrote instead was a raw, character-driven survival story that bruises the heart, dares to be quiet in a loud genre, and lets love rise not like fireworks, but like a slow sunrise. If you're looking for polish and predictability, this book might frustrate you. But if you're ready to feel something a little deeper, a little darker, and a little more real—then maybe this so-called “imperfect” book is ...

Big for his age, young and impressionable drifter Charlie Chilton is taken in by the gruff leader of a gang of small-time crooks and ne'er do wells who sees something of himself in kindly, wayward Charlie. But Grady Haskell, ambitious ruffian with a shady past, soon joins the gang, convincing Charlie's friends to pursue a big score. Charlie fails to thwart the crime, and the heist turns bloody. As the only gang member caught alive, Big Charlie will soon swing for the crimes. He makes a daring escape, determined to track down Haskell and the gang and prove his innocence.

Calling all busy parents! Discover the perfect book for your adventurous young readers aged 9-12! "I Escaped The Donner Party" offers a captivating blend of educational entertainment and thrilling survival that will have your kids turning pages with excitement. In this heart-pounding tale, Zeke, a 15-year-old horseback enthusiast from Illinois, battles hunger, bears, and blizzards when his pioneer-wagon-train takes a treacherous wrong turn on the iconic Oregon Trail. Based on true events, this kid-powered survival adventure, authored by the multi-award-winning Ellie Crowe and Scott Peters, ...

No one more vividly captures the rugged majesty and enduring spirit of the American West than Louis L'Amour. Collected for the very first time are seven unabridged frontier tales from a legendary master of the genre. Volume One celebrates this remarkable voice in American fiction with a captivating blend of some of his best-loved work.

Memphis-based investigator Matt West is back in an escalating murder mystery that will keep the reader puzzled to the end...if it is the end. What begins as a meeting with a new client draws rare book dealer and investigator Matt West into an odd Memphis murder that unveils a deadly international puzzle leading from the Mississippi River to the West Coast and back in a search for the killers and to learn their true target before it is too late to stop them. Matt West follows the bloody "paper trail" that leads where no one suspected.

Kirby - later Smoke - Jensen has just earned his first paying job as a deputy US marshal for the Colorado Territory and is sent to the lawless town of Las Animas. There he finds a sheriff too cowardly to face the outlaw leader Cole Dawson, whose six-gun has left a lot of good men dead. Young Smoke feels no such fear. He takes Dawson down fast. Then the real fight begins. It turns out Dawson is only a cog in a crooked plot hatched by someone hiding behind the law.

A stunning fantasy inspired by familiar fairy-tales, complete with cursed princesses, thieves-turned-soldiers, and an orphan girl transformed into an immortal, shapeshifting heroine. The Nissera Chronicles start here.... Bristal, a 16-year-old kitchen maid, finds herself in a gritty fairy-tale gone wrong when she discovers she has elicromancer magic in her blood. Elicromancers are an ancient breed of immortal people, but only two remain in Nissera after a bloody civil war. Bristal joins their ranks without knowing that one of them has a dark secret.

Living near the beach in his RV with his cat, Walker just wants to relax and savor the good life in Florida. But when he gets a call from the wife of a Key West crime boss asking for a favor, he knows he can't refuse. She wants him to track down a mystery man and doesn't want her husband to find out about it. If he does, Walker could be in serious trouble. And if he doesn't find the guy, the trouble could be a lot worse. To complicate matters, Walker partners up with a hot-tempered redhead looking for the same man. Together they dig into the underbelly of Florida's east coast while trying ...

The three Hill brothers and their families leave their homes in Texas and move to the Arizona Territory, circa 1880. They soon learn just how wild the wild west can be. As they settle into Pleasant Valley, Arizona, they quickly find themselves in the middle of barroom brawls, cattle rustlers, being ambushed, defending their cattle from hungry bears and ultimately a wild shootout to save their ranch. Shootout at the Soaring Eagle Ranch is about adventure, family, friends, law and order, good and evil. It’s a story about the old west and the people who had the tenacity to help settle it.