Western Mystery

It takes a lot to impress a Dalton girl. Family feud or deep, dark secret? Jessamine Dalton is determined to uncover the reason why one branch of the family tree broke off and headed north to Colorado decades ago. Hitting the road to visit their distant relations seems perfect—she’ll get away from her interfering sisters, and making a proper family tree will double as a Christmas gift for the entire Dalton clan, right? Trouble is, Jessamine’s expected back in time for the festivities… and well, Colorado winters are unpredictable. Holidays always depress Jake Strahan. While everybody...

From the pages of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine: When bare knuckle boxer Corey Callaghan’s trainer is locked in prison on a charge of murder, the sheriff doesn’t much care if he’s innocent or guilty. That’s because he doesn’t expect the case to go before a judge and jury. You see, the dead man’s son is leading a posse to town looking for vengeance and Corey’s fists aren’t likely to be enough to save the old man. It looks like Patrick’s only chance to avoid a lynching is lady luck, a named gambler, Pandora Parson, and the strength of her defense.

A grieving father. A small Texas town with big secrets. One man’s fight for justice—and a place to call home. After the loss of his wife, former Dallas detective Link Dixon returns to his hometown of Cartersville, Texas, hoping that a slower pace and the support of his large family will help his young son heal. Life as a night deputy and inheriting a rambling Victorian house are a far cry from his days in the city, but Link is determined to build a safe, loving future for Jason. Just as Link begins to settle in, trouble finds him in the form of an old Dallas acquaintance who needs his ...

Why can salamanders grow new legs, and young children grow new fingertips, but adult humans can't regenerate? What is the electricity that flows through the human body? Is it the same thing that the Chinese call Qi? If so, what does Chinese medicine know that Western medicine ignores? Dan Keown's highly accessible, witty, and original book shows how Western medicine validates the theories of Chinese medicine and how Chinese medicine explains the mysteries of the body that Western medicine largely ignores.

Romance author Becca Mason is spending the summer at Sagebrush Ranch, looking forward to her friend’s wedding, parties and fun. She also hopes to kick the writer’s block plaguing her. Hoping a change of scenery will reignite her creativity, she jumped right in when her friend offered the invitation. Nobody knows what he writes, though, because what credible romance author would have such rotten luck with her own happily ever after? Ethan Boone is a horse trainer at the ranch who’s considered a bit of a player. The truth about that is a little more complicated. He’s carried a secret ...

With the full resources of the Justice Department, the intelligence community, and the military (not to mention presidential pardons pre-signed), Logan must battle a secret organization with the connections and funding to rival many first-world nations. The goal of this organization is both singular and sinister - to pit the United States against China in a bid to dismantle the world’s security and economy.

Present day, army sergeant and member of the elite Green Berets witnesses a war crime while on a secret mission in Syria. What Sergeant Callaghan saw would change his life forever. On the run from a US government deep in the throes of a far-right dictatorship, now civilian Kade Callaghan takes his dad’s truck and camper trailer from Massachusetts all the way to the farthest corner of the nation to hide out until better accommodations can be made by his father. A father who is a retired Marine general with far-reaching connections across the globe. Kade pulls his trailer on a campsite at ...

THE KNACK SynopsisFrank Bass is a U.S. Deputy Marshal on leave from his district in El Paso, Texas, when he's asked by an old friend in Cheyenne to investigate a brutal rape and beating of a young girl in Torrington, Wyoming. Bass agrees to travel from Cheyenne to Torrington with the girl's beautiful Aunt Sally Bloom, and during that trip, their friendship becomes romantic, and eventually, a loving relationship develops. During the story, Bass explains the origin of the Buffalo Robe he carries with him and how it has become a symbol of his notoriety. Colorful characters come and go adding ...

Marshal Frank Bass is asked by the son of a U.S.Cavalry Major to assist in clearing his father's name. The Major was in charge of a gold shipment that disappeared and became a suspect in the crime. Making the investigation more difficult is the death of the Major during the perpetration of the crime, and the further implication of his involvement by a nefarious Cavalry Officer who has designs on the treasure himself. Bass's investigation takes to the reader to various locales in the New Mexico Territory where he encounters a variety of entertaining characters from Cantina Owners and patrons...

A woman obsessed with what’s proper, a cowboy from the wrong side of the tracks, and a second chance spurred on by doing what’s wrong because it feels right. I’m trying to bring in more people and businesses to Tall Pine, Montana. Our town deserves so much more than one tree and one tavern. It’s not my fault the pub I’m pushing to open will be in direct competition with Dawson’s tavern. If he's so worried, he needs to up his game. The cowboy claims to have plenty of tricks up his sleeve, so when I give in to his challenge of playing a game of poker and I lose… big… I can’t...

Indigo Fire The Indigo Brothers Trilogy Book One What would you do if your family went missing? Three brothers, Jackson, Mitch, and Garret Indigo are summoned back home to tiny Indigo Key by their mother. Their sister has gone missing along with her husband and two kids. But the mystery only deepens when they learn a visitor to the town has also disappeared. Are the two cases related? And, if so, what are the people in their hometown hiding?

Ron and Jessica Stahl are a power couple from California, on a Christmas holiday in Colorado. When they stop for the afternoon in sleepy Lone Cone, they're charmed by the quaint tourist town. But the folksy hospitality will vanish as the sun drops behind the mountains. A winter storm is approaching, and the Stahls couldn’t have picked a worse night of the year to get snowed into this perfect little town with a dark, dark secret.

Murder in the Mojave Desert Up until now, the only boyfriend Mindy has is her horse. But that's about to change. Moving horses to the high country comes just in time when Mindy and her coffee date witness murder at a Mojave Desert cafe. But what begins with a horrendous tragedy leads to unexpected romance.

BIG, HARD, and READY for action! These three books and packed full of hot young men and their first gay experience. When they meet their lovers, there is no turning back. It turns out, man on man action is just what they needed. This bundle contains: 1. My Gay Doctor 2. A Ride On His Stallion: The Gay Cowboy's Lover 3. Small Town, Secret Desires Warning: These stories contain filthy, naughty action that might be too hot to handle. Adult readers only.

She's agreed to a loveless marriage. He'll stop her no matter the cost. Will the price to protect their lives mean risking their hearts? The holidays are over, and aristocrat Anna Whitloch must leave Crystal Creek and return to Eastern Europe. She made a promise, a promise that will save her mother’s estate. Someone else has other ideas. Ideas that will get Anna out of the way permanently. Anna can take care of herself, so why was Deputy Rocco Ventali assigned to protect her? She can’t depend on him, as he proved that night ten years ago when they had planned to meet. He never showed. ...

This James Lee Burke novel, featuring Son Holland - the great-grandfather of Burke's Billy Bob Holland - as he flees a Louisiana prison camp with a Native American woman and a fellow prisoner in tow, is now available in audio.

Mystic Caravan has hit Texas, and things are supposed to be quiet in Austin. The only thing of note in a city that praises itself for being weird is the nest of vampires that rules the town.

A gunshot pierces the winter day… A sheriff finds a woman in the woods… …not a normal day in Copper Pass, Montana Investigative reporter, Jordan Evans flees Billings, Montana with an evil stranger hot on her heels. Someone wants her to stop questions. When she meets the town’s handsome sheriff, Wyatt Armstrong, she finds a strong ally, especially when a local girl disappears and he needs Jordan’s investigative skills to find her. Fearing a sex trafficking ring is hiding in Copper Pass, Jordan and Wyatt hatch a brave, dangerous plot to catch the ringleader. Will they stop the evil ...

It is a chill and foggy 12th Night, wild with North Sea wind, when a bizarre murder disturbs the outward peace of Rackmoor, a tiny Yorkshire fishing village with a past that proves a tangled maze of unrequited loves, unrevenged wrongs, and even undiscovered murders. Inspector Jury finds no easy answers in his investigation - not even the identity of the victim, a beautiful young woman. Was she Gemma Temple, an impostor? Or was she really Dillys March, Colonel Titus Crael’s long-lost ward, returning after eight years to the Colonel’s country seat and to a share of his fortune? And who was her murderer?

Retired on a disability pension after being shot in the hip, FBI agent Duncan Wyatt is bored to tears after making a full recovery. His hum-drum existence comes to an abrupt end when he is recruited by ATF to work undercover in the Florida Keys. A Keys native, Wyatt not only knows the territory, but the target of their investigation, his high school sweetheart of twenty-five years ago, Katherine Wolfe. Wealthy Miami based industrialist Xavier Estes, a first generation born Cuban has long been suspected of gun smuggling to Cuban rebels by ATF. His suspected accomplice is Keys resident ...