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Once upon a time in Los Angeles, water was everywhere-in rivers that rendered the vast plain a marsh, in underground streams that provided an abundance of water for people, cattle and crops. This is the lush landscape that the young Henry Scott encounters when he arrives, half-dead, in the pueblo of Los Angeles in 1843, during the waning days of Mexican rule. In this fertile place along the Los Angeles River, Scott's fortunes begin to change. His...
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"Tom Fuller, a scrupulously honest fellow, a person of extraordinary physical strength and owner of a savage horse, Rusty, that he alone was able to tame, is generally regarded as a half-wit. He has been summarily fired from every job he has ever had and even comes to regard himself as a failure. He makes one more try when he is hired on as a blacksmith's assistant by Boston Charlie. Finally here is a job that Tom can perform successfully, and his...
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A bride who needs rescuing. A single dad who's a bit rough around the edges. Can they see past their own faults to find love? Overwhelmed with responsibilities after the death of her parents, Lucie Croft accepts a mail-order bride contract. When she and her twelve-year-old brother arrive in Chattanooga, Tennessee, life throws another hitch into her dreams when she learns her groom is dead. Homeless and desperate, she accepts help from a handsome hotel...
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Fifteen-year-old Jane arrives in the goldfields of 1860's Montana with her family, impoverished and despised because her parents are derelicts. Young Jane though, makes a name for herself as Calamity Jane through her exploits racing horses and dealing cards, becoming the toast of the town. Murder and robbery stalk all who travel the surrounding trails though, and Jane thinks she knows who leads the gang. Can she rally forces to clean the place up?...
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"Tight, literate pulp." — IndieReader
A rogue vigilante known only as the Wanderer seeks redemption in a lawless, near-future America that fully protects the rights of armed citizens to stand their ground against mass shooters and motorcycle gangs.
When the Wanderer opens war against injustice in the state of Arizona, his violent yet principled actions attract the attention of journalist Rosa Veras, writer of a subversive blog
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" In 1883, young Wes Montana, hired gun for the cattlemen in Montana Territory, lives a dark life, but he is so dangerous, no one dares call him a breed. Down in Arizona Territory at the Claymore Ranch, his Arapaho mother is murdered. That's when he learns that Ray Eastman, the white father he believes had abandoned them before Wes was born, is still alive and may have sent the killers. Wes swears vengeance on his own father. Eastman is wealthy with...
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Major Press
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2016.
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When a rough-cut Texas cowboy haunted by his past saves a Park Avenue bride on the run, opposites attract in a big, Texas way in USA Today Bestselling Ann Major's Love with an Imperfect Cowboy. “Want it all? Read Ann Major.” – New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts “No one provides hotter emotional fireworks than the fiery Ann Major.” – RT Book Reviews “Ann Major’s name on the cover instantly identifies the book as a good...
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Luminare Press
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2021.
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The first book in the Pocket Full of Seeds Trilogy follows two escaped slaves, Fredericka and Horace on their flight for freedom through nineteenth-century America. It was a time when runaway slaves were hunted, steamships sailed around the Horn to San Francisco, horse-tugged boats navigated the Erie Canal, a midnight tsunami struck Buffalo, Mormons sought a new Zion, and wagon trains lumbered across a continent littered with unmarked graves. ...
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Nuallain House, Publishers
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2011.
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On The Road To Las Cruces is a work of fiction tethered loosely to historical fact. It is the story of the relationship between two men, one garrulous, the other taciturn, the Mutt and Jeff of the old Southwest, and the tradition of storytelling and the authoring of ‘true’ accounts. What is related on the road to Las Cruces is as much a retelling of some history as it is how such a retelling might come about, and is represented in the manner...
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Webster Publishing
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The Good Girl wants to spread her wings… From birth Grace Crockett has been part of an unbroken set: one-in a million identical triplets. Twenty-six years later, however, feeling unappreciated in her role as part owner of a successful Denver restaurant, Grace longs to break away and fulfill her own dreams. But to do so she must learn to trust in her own judgment. The Gambler wants what’s owed to him… Small-time poker player Ty Garraway is...
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Book 1 in the Cowboy Fairytales series from a USA TODAY bestselling author A princess on-the-run finds sanctuary where she least expects it... After nearly dying in an assassination attempt, Princess Alessandra of Glorvaird escapes to a place no one would ever think to look for her: small town Oklahoma and a ranch staffed by a herd of wooly, uncouth cowboys. One cowboy in particular gets under her skin, until she sees his softer side. She knows...
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[s.n.]
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2021.
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Boomtown San Diego, in 1888, erupts in murder by the retired Marshal and hero of the O.K. Corral, Wyatt Earp. What's really going on behind this murder? Can you find who's responsible when others can't? "Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation. Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for...
13) Too soon to die
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"There's nothing like a wedding to bring families together. And there's no place like the Sugarloaf Ranch to throw a foot-stomping hoedown--even if it turns into a gun-blazing showdown. Smoke and Sally Jensen are delighted that their son Louis is marrying the lovely widow he met during a perilous stagecoach journey through the Donner Pass. The whole family welcomes the bride and her young son with open arms. In fact, everyone is invited to the party--even...
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Brilliant but burned out CIA operative Richard Hart has a midlife crisis. He wants out of the intelligence game for good. But he can’t resist his last and only opportunity to meet the legendary V.M. Moodbain, a grand CIA Chessmaster, who will do anything to keep him engaged. When Moodbain does not show up for their rendezvous at the appointed time, Hart realizes he has been set up as a pawn in a dangerous cat and mouse game. He finds himself trapped...
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Based on the true story of an American icon
Darke County, Ohio, 1866. Young Phoebe Ann Moses lives a life of peace and harmony on a farm with her Quaker family and has dreams of living a hunter's life in the woods.
When Jacob Moses, the beloved patriarch, tragically dies, Phoebe's life is sent into a tailspin. The family suffers in squalor as they move from place to place, until Phoebe is sent to live in the Infirmary, where the orphans taunt...
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"Hugh Collier in "The Danger Lover" feels he is living an empty life as little more than a competent bank employee in the town of Stanton. He decides to leave behind a life that for him was a "caricature and savage cartoon of the beautiful truth that life may be" and heads into the mountains alone, carrying only the essentials on his horse. Two things change course of his adventure: he sees a town from a hill, and a stranger, desperate to file on...
17) A Sky So Big
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Premio Publishing & Gozo Books
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2015.
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2016 International Book Award (also Laramie Award finalist). A man and a woman, each searching for missing family members, clash amid a Nevada silver rush scheme that leaves both unsure who to trust—and scrambling to stay alive. Wade Forester must stay in the shadows because, it seems, everyone has reason to shoot him. His father has disappeared, and his sister won’t speak a word to anyone. Beautiful Patricia Laughlin is searching for her family...
18) Two Guns, 1 Mile
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ThomasButlerBooks.com
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2021.
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Two Guns, 1 Mile is a collection of original short fiction and historical fiction. Each story shares the setting of the railroad stop turned trading post turned tourist trap turned ghost town of Two Guns, Arizona. Home to the “Apache Death Cave,” pistol packing prostitutes, and the rumored site of several lost or buried treasures, this small section of desert, nestled halfway between Winslow and Flagstaff, has more than its share of stories. Sometimes...
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[s.n.]
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2018.
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A heart-pounding novel of a love that must truly conquer all— the highly-anticipated tenth book in Wiley's bestselling novels of the American frontier. In 1811, strengthened by his own struggles and triumphs, Liam Roberts earned the respect of his commanding officers and his current boss, cattleman Stephen Wyllie. Although Liam considers himself a homebody, he lacks a home. Tired of bunkhouse life, and twenty-five-years-old, he is ready for a home...
20) Blood and Dust
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Black Rose Writing
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2022.
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James Sinclair is riding hard for the wild Canadian west. Hunted like an animal. It was only one kiss, but her father wants him dead. Will he find a new life, or be gunned down for a crime he did not commit?
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