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Waking in the dirt to the smell of smoke, widower Ben Palmer finds his homestead razed, and his daughter gone. Ben is raising his daughter Iris as best he could, scratching a living out of the rocky New Mexico mountain soil. Life is hard – but it just gets a lot harder. Under the lead of the notorious Stitch Jacobs, six desperate men have just fouled relations between the Apache nation and a wealthy land baron. Caught in the crosshairs of their escape, Ben’s daughter is taken hostage as a peace offering to the tyrant who bankrolls the gang. Ben is desperate. Getting his daughter back ...

"Fremde Welten, dunkle Geheimnisse und eine verbotene Liebe. Das Abenteuer geht weiter." Die epische Fantasy-Reihe von Kirsten Storm, Finalistin beim Radio Planet Berlin Award 2022 als Autorin des Jahres. Rubys Leben wird bedroht. Doch wer steckt dahinter? Und was bezweckt er? Bendic und sein Drachengefährte Aris wollen Ruby helfen, es herauszufinden, doch als sie unverhofft hinter das Geheimnis ihrer Träume kommt, eskalieren die Ereignisse. Der Ordensführer Konrad Wigg setzt seine Leute auf Ruby an.

At the ripe age of twenty-six, Texas Ranger Beau Knight decided to settle down. But before he can put up his guns and badge for good, he’s tasked with one last assignment. Ransom Falls is a thriving town on the wrong side of the Pecos River. Boasting seven large ranches, bustling markets, a church, and the prettiest maiden in all of Texas, Beau finds Ransom Falls the ideal place to pitch his tent in permanently. But nightly raids by a nearby Indian settlement hound the town and leave its people vulnerable. With the help of local law enforcement, Beau goes to eliminate the ‘threat’. ...

Jed Walker, the newly appointed deputy, has long been wary of Father Davenport, a charismatic man who is slowly influencing the youth of his town. When Jed hears about the death of one of his townsmen, Luke Hamilton, due to a tragic farming accident, he suspects murder, and his investigation points toward the Church of God’s Righteous Justice on Earth. With the help of Mayor Bill Hicks, Mayor Ace Knight and the gutsy Persephone Cross, Deputy Jed strike out at this menace but they have severely underestimated the kind of power Father Davenport holds on his congregation, and how they’re ...

The blanket of snow covers the state of Colorado as Hudson Owens stands in front of his mother’s fresh grave. It is supposed to be a simple affair after which Hudson would travel back to his home town and carry on with his life. As Hudson rides through a snow storm and into the town of Ashcroft, he notices a commotion at the sheriff’s office. It turns out that a stagecoach has just been robbed by a gang led by Johnny Daggers, a notorious outlaw of the state. One of the victims involved is a woman called Dolly Miller who had cared for Hudson’s mother before her recent death. Knowing ...

Colin Ward receives news that his brother has been killed during a cattle drive. The man who killed him, Vernon Odell, is beyond the reach of the law and also eight hundred miles away from where Colin is. With nothing more than a rifle slung across his back, hunter Colin must journey through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and into Indian Territory to track down the Odell gang. Along the way, Colin rescues the beautiful Kitty Cooper from a group of bandits. In more ways than one, especially after knowing Kitty, Colin’s journey along the western trail will change the course of his life forever...

Tragedies were hard to forget and even harder to fully remember. Jos tried to not think about that fateful night that he lost his family. But with every step he took, he couldn’t help but think that he was in the same place that he had been twenty years ago. Only now he had a carbine and two revolvers. He was eager to use them, in what was perhaps a misguided attempt for revenge. Jos knew that he was getting close, but he couldn’t hear any voices near him. He made sure to be careful, his boots soft on the earth as if he was almost floating in the air and his finger resting on the ...

In the dog-eat-dog world of cattle ranching, where there’s no such thing as honor among thieves and only the slyest survive, Grant Menzies must undertake the greatest race of his life – to take revenge upon the men who killed his sister and took everything from his family. Sitting in his high castle, ruling over his cattle empire, Monroe Croft knows his power. Men have come for him before, and they’ve failed miserably. What could he possibly have to fear from Grant and his three brothers, when he already has a spy in their midst? Try as they might to bring him to justice, Monroe knows...

Ace Knight is a small farmer in Ector County, following his late father’s credo – kill not for killing’s sake. Not beholden to any other man, Ace accepts to be a lookout on the county’s annual cattle drive. Outlaws have been roaming the lands picking off as many cattle and goods as they can. Ace is confident there will be no trouble. But things go horribly wrong. Escaping with his life, Ace is forced to reconsider his philosophy. Outlaws led by Black Eye Joe Baxter besieged towns, slaughtered men and defiled women, leaving no hope for anyone except in Ace Knight. Struggling with his...

Lucy Carpenter knows she needs to help and has to get that rifle stock onto her shoulder as soon as possible so she could aim, but she couldn’t get her arms to function. Instead, she just sits there, frozen stiff, as bullets pinged downwards, splintering rocks in the wall right beside her. Outnumbered, outmanned, but not quite outgunned, Lucy and bounty hunter Leon McEvoy already expect that bringing Devon “The Ghost” Masterson and his gang to justice would be the greatest challenge of their unusual partnership. Lucy just wants to save her little sister. And Leon is racing against ...

A woman persecuted by her own people. A man living away from home. There is justice between them to be upheld. Ben Shelton has been working as a ranch hand for years, but his desire to be independent pushes him to travel across the country, until he sees a bounty offer and decides to go after the ‘outlaw’ – Jeannie O’Pelt. The feisty and opinionated Jeannie is the only one in town brave enough to stand up against Lewis Cosely and his gang, who wants control over women, alcohol and money. When Cosely fails to take over Jeannie’s ranch and get rid of her, he frames her for a murder ...

A young man, Max Wilkins at just 18 years old, lost both of his parents when an outlaw ruthlessly murdered them in broad daylight. Max knows the outlaw to be Shane Richards, who is part of a villainous gang that the law has not yet managed to subdue. Max has no other choice but to take matters into his own hands and hunt for his parents’ killer without the help of the law. As he journeys across Oregon state and arrives in the town of Granite, Max is sweep off his feet by a local nurse, Alice. The widow is concerned for Max and thinks he is in danger to go after Shane. In an encounter with...

A town under the rule of outlaws. A woman in danger. A deputy turns hero. “Colbert, I can fight. I won’t be in your way. And you’ll watch my back,” Thelma O’Malley was serious. “Fine,” Deputy Colbert said. “I think Randell Caricker has your sister. And it seems like Caricker was keeping another woman captive. You just make sure that you’re careful, and that you stay alive, and I’ll make sure I bring your sister back.” Thelma nodded, grateful for all the help that Colbert had given her and her family. It was time to give something back to him, though, and so she raised ...

Losing a mother is not easy. Finding out she had been murdered is devastating. Fern Welles, a sheriff in Nebraska, receives word that his mother had passed suddenly. He rushes back home to Colorado Territory, and what he finds there is beyond his wildest nightmares. His mother had not simply passed. She had been murdered. In cold blood. The sheriff is sworn to vengeance. Mayor Blank and Judge Cornne are two men who are not what they seem. The horrors they had caused in search of wealth and power haunt Sebree, the hometown of Fern’s mother. As the twin evils of the mayor and the judge ...

How far will a man go to avenge his family? Seventeen-year-old Elam Eskers is traveling with his family through the Oregon Trail in search of a better life – a life that he never has the chance to live after his parents and siblings are all brutally murdered by Black Horse. Indian outlaw Black Horse is thirsty for money and blood. He spreads terror in Nebraska, where he and his men rule over the locals of several small towns under the threat of death and demise. Elam swears revenge. Through fights with outlaws who protect Black Horse, and simple men and women who are too afraid to give ...

When the Scarlet Star Gang ride into town, bringing a storm of bullets, Jonah Silk is taught the harshest lesson life can offer: the dead can’t be brought back to life, and the rich will do anything to get richer. Bent on revenge against the men who killed his family, the boy will have to become a man, chasing the ghosts of his past to the bitter end. But nobody ever said that taking an eye for an eye would be easy, and Red O’Connell, the leader of the Scarlets, won’t fall without a fight. For Clara Lasseter, she has her own revenge to take. She’s watched, she’s waited, and now ...

Carson ‘Colt’ Knight has been promoted to Captain in the Texas Rangers and a new mission has been given to him in a mining town in the south. But a childhood promise remains like an old bruise in his heart, keeping him from complete happiness. Twenty years ago, his mother was killed at the hands of Sammy Day and his outlaws. Colt was only four. When news arrives of an infamous outlaw being sighted in a town nearby, Colt learns that he is none other than Sammy, riding with his ruthless gang to plunder any town in their way. On his trail to bring down the outlaws, Colt meets Felicity, a ...

A tormented past returns to haunt him. But he will fight it with honor. Hired hand Bill Young is on a cattle drive with Elander Stetin and his family, when tragedy strikes. A band of outlaws abducts the Stetin family’s oldest daughter, Annette, the woman that Bill had grown to love and care for. Bill swears to her father that he will bring her back. But saving Annette is not the only reason why he chases after the outlaws. The outlaws were none other than Harve Parsons and Clair Vest, the men who had tormented him and his fellow soldiers of the 6th United States Colored Infantry Regiment....

The man who raised Charles Douglas is a criminal. He has escaped prison and he is out there, killing innocent people. It couldn’t go on. Charles is hoping that his father’s capture is going to be as sudden as his prison escape. He needs it to be over. He doesn’t want his thirteen-year-old son knowing that his grandfather is doing what he is doing. Only one thing makes sense to him. If there has to be a man to capture Jake Douglas, then who better than his own son? “I should be the one to do it,” Charles believes. But Charles is not just facing his father alone. Jake Douglas ...

A family in shambles. A town in danger. Now is the time for Alva McRae’s return to fight for justice and peace. Alva is determined to prove to his townsfolk of Margret on his innocence for trying to rape Leda, and to save them from Vernie Sieckes and his evil gang. Vernie has set his sights on the local mines in Margret. He and his henchmen will do whatever it takes to control the mines, and eventually the town as well. An ugly fight to eradicate the Vernie gang is inevitable. It is Alva’s fight to uphold the peace for his town, a fight to protect his woman Louisa, and a fight for… ...