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1 Series, 3 Books : Free with Kindle Unlimited! Never before bundle as a boxed set. Texas Cattle War – Book 1 You can take the man out of law enforcement. But you can’t take the law enforcement out of the man. Rancher Logan McCoy is forced back to duty as deputy sheriff as deadly attacks spread across his town. As he seeks to restore justice and peace, the disorder snowballed into a free range war. A Texas Cattle War. Logan gathers together a posse to end these barbaric acts of destruction to a peaceful town. But how will a posse of sheriff be enough to end this madness? The Sheriff’s...

Payne Conway didn’t plan on staying in Arizona – until the outlaws start falling to his .44. After signing on as town marshal in Sentinel, Payne crosses paths with ruthless businessman Sam Horton. Sam thinks that the desolate railroad town is the perfect place to build a gambling house and brothel, but Payne doesn’t want to watch his community turn into a hotbed of vice and murder. When Payne tosses one of Sam’s closest allies in jail, he quickly becomes the target of the Hand Gang, Sam’s desperado footmen, for daring to stand in the way of Sam’s sinister ambitions. It seems to ...

Star Holiday is on the run. Left on her own to tend to a hopeless harvest, she watched as her husband, Fletcher, was seduced by saloon girls, card tables and violent robbery. Now Fletcher is dead. To free herself and the quiet Nebraskan countryside from her husband’s mounting cruelty, Star pulled the trigger. Star is the only person that sees justice has been served. On trails and rails, Star battles across the tormented Great Plain to get to her aunt and uncle’s ranch in Colorado. Freedom and peace are on the horizon. Now, the law is on her trail. U.S. Marshal Duke Horne always gets ...

Hunting the men who did it. One by one. After learning the truth about his family’s killers, Deputy Lucas Butler leaves behind his East Texas home and tracks down the Bloodhoof Gang, the seven men responsible for the fateful night that tore apart his childhood. Some of the brutes have vanished from sight. But others still eke out their heartless trades. Elwood Roscoe, the engine behind the Bloodhoof reign of terror, hasn’t lost his taste for blood and theft. He’s made his living making a mockery of justice. As Lucas uncovers an ocean of pain left behind by the gang, he also finds ...

Young ranch hand Cole Tyler’s best friend, Martin, has been captured while on a cattle drive through Indian Territory. And if Cole doesn’t get there fast, Martin will be a dead man. Martin has been forcibly taken hostage by an outlaw. One named Bones Foster. A violent robber on a crazed mission for a Spanish Treasure. If the treasure is found and presented to him, he’ll let Martin live… But nobody knows where the treasure is. And Clare Whitley, Martin’s sister, doesn’t care if the treasure is real or a myth. Clare is no sharpshooter. Nonetheless, her guns are ready and she has ...

“Do I need to remind you to take care of yourself?” she reminded him. “Don’t worry about me. I still hate to lose, dear,” Colton mildly admonished her. Colton Day does not get a chance to rest much as yet another threat has come to the rugged frontier town of Temple Ridge. Earlier in the year, former lawman Colton defeated a killer gang and then thwarted a group of kidnappers. Now, Birch Simmons has come to town and killed Temple Ridge’s Mayor Huck Flinton. But bringing the corrupt rancher Simmons to justice will be a monumental challenge. This challenge naturally falls on ...

Missie Pickard is dead. Main street has burned. And the outlaw that pulled the trigger has disappeared into the scorched Arizona desert. The townspeople demand justice. When young miner Miles McLean returns home to find his town in ruins, he wants justice as much as anybody. Miles must find Willy Helm, the murderous bank robber seen fleeing the scene of the crime… Willy Helm. He’ll kill for money and he’ll kill for fun. Nobody has come close enough to collect the bounty on his head. As Miles searches alone in the sweltering desert, he finds himself entangled in bloody Apache wars and ...

Colton Day, a rugged cowboy tired of bloodshed, yearns for a simple life in the wilderness. Leaving behind his love, Caroline, and the town he once protected as sheriff, Temple Ridge, he thinks he can escape the shadows that haunted him. Little did he know that his past would come roaring back with a vengeance. Buck Mantooth, a cold-blooded outlaw, and his malevolent father, Virgil, engineer a prison break, unleashing a horde of ruthless criminals upon Temple Ridge. Plundering and killing are not enough for them – they crave the death of Colton Day, a thorn in their side. But what they ...

Bart Fulton feels compelled by fate to pin on a deputy’s badge in Arizona Territory’s Plain Creek. The young twenty-two-year old has drawn an almost impossible first challenge – putting an end to the evil and murderous ways of criminal Weed Meadows. Weed doesn’t bat an eye killing innocent people and threatening others. He wants to expand a silver mine he stole. To do that he’ll have to get land from two families, the Lees and the Rileys. There’s one problem – both families have been feuding for years. Bart knows about Weed’s nefarious plans. But convincing the Lees and the ...

The fearless and famous Dory McLee, and her friend Evan Henson, are back and facing yet another daunting challenge in the New Mexico Territory. This time it involves a caravan freight wagon company, J.C. Holdings Co. The business founder, Jed Coburn, has been murdered by a disgruntled former worker named Flint Mattox. And now Jed’s daughter, Ruth, wants to find Mattox and bring him to justice. Evan is out to help the Coburn family after they previously saved the life of his brother Baxter. Once again, it will take bravery and quick thinking for Dory and Evan to capture the thoroughly evil...

Civil War veteran and cowboy Gabriel Hansen is called to serve as a deputy in order to stop Rube Bauer, an evil and unstable man who has a sinister plan to become wealthy. Bauer’s plan involves murder and illegal land sales in Arizona Territory. He wants to swoop up lands in small towns Newton and nearby Grove. But the town of Newton is an all-black settlement, which no longer trusts white authorities especially in the aftermath of the killing of a black family. The lynching has concerned officials from Tucson to Washington. Helping the investigation is famed black lawman Baker Reed. Both...

Matt Foster’s tight knit Silver Hill horse ranch family has entrusted him to find the men responsible for fatally shooting his grandpa in a senseless road robbery. Matt must stop the desperate outlaws from inflicting the same pain on other families and bring the criminals to justice. In order to hunt down the rabid Harley Cole gang, Matt volunteers to be a deputy. The gang isn't just threatening the settlers, but also a nearby Apache village, and a special attraction – Rachel Divine, one of the greatest trick shot performers to have ever lived. The lives of many and Rachel rely on the ...

It is 1873 and cowboy Tate Foster finds himself having to lead a wagon train of some two hundred western bound settlers over a dangerous canyon pass. The rugged young cowboy also has to be mindful of a gang of villains, led by the ruthless and thoroughly evil Cobra Hawkins. No decent person is safe from Hawkins, and he is especially sinister towards women and children. The lone wagon will cross paths with the Hawkins gang, and Tate will have to put up a fight of his life if he is to protect the innocent. Tate’s spirits are buoyed by a fellow wagon train beauty, Julia Wright, who is ready ...

Jason ‘Jace’ Foster must find and bring home his missing brother Matt, whose life has tragically crossed paths with Arizona territory’s most ruthless man, Edgar Marble or Snake Marble. Marble’s reputation, and that of his brutal associates, is well earned and the man has no conscience when it comes to doing business with fellow thieves and degenerates. The odds are against Jace, the former Union Army soldier, until he meets Emma Jackson, a charming and feisty woman of the west. Another classic western with respectful romance and women as strong frontier folk from author William ...

Plain Creek veteran Sheriff Isaac ‘Ike’ Hoskins never knew it before, but there’s a deeply corrupt town not too far from him. Arizona Territory’s Irongate is plagued with extortion and graft, as well as too many unexplained deaths. One of those was the son of widow Marge Davenport. She also happens to be the long lost love of Sheriff Ike. Some twenty-five years before, Ike chose his profession over her. Now, with an uncertain retirement ahead, Ike questions if he did the right thing. The lawman will fight through those feelings to take on the wickedly cunning Wesley Lutton, a ...

It’s 1876 Arizona and the territory may never become a state unless it can bring its outlaw problem under control. Only recently an illegal territory wide whiskey cartel was responsible for the murder of a beautiful young innocent woman. Governor Anson Safford believes he may have the man to turn it all around. He is Pinkerton Detective Denver McCoy on loan from the fledgling Department of Justice. Denver will have to use all of his cunning to go up against a gang, which lingers in the shadows and remains elusive. It’s led by Herman “Birchwood” Hatcher, who has his hands involved in...

Michael Stratten’s soul was aching for a new life, one far away from the bloodshed and battlefields he knew as an army officer. For a brief moment it appeared he found it on a tranquil farm in Arizona. Not only that but he discovered a beautiful partner, Dolly Carrington. All of that was yanked from him by a ruthless raid conducted by Mexican Federales. It left his beloved Dolly dead. Michael vows to go after those who crushed his dreams. Along the way he finds out the so-called Federales are really a vicious gang of American and Mexican outlaws who are conducting a ruse. The real goal of...

Rugged tracker and Civil War veteran Tristan Hawk is hellbent on accomplishing his mission to serve justice. Railroad tycoons Ames Hathaway has enlisted Tristan Hawk to go after the Rip Bateman outlaws who have kidnapped the younger 15-year-old Baker Hathaway. Bateman and his lackeys had been working for Ames until they were fired for abusing Chinese railroad workers, and Bateman’s way of revenge is a kidnap-for-ransom. A lot is on the line for Tristan, including Baker’s life and the safety of anyone who gets too close to Bateman and the outlaws. And Ames is under pressure to make sure ...

The Old West frontier was never a perfect or safe place. Nobody knows that better than Deputy Johnny Russell. The energetic young man works for Sheriff Marcus Sharpe in the town of Plain Creek, located in the Arizona Territory. Earlier in 1875 he survived being shot by a vicious killer. Now the lawman is on the trail of another gang of outlaws, led by cunning career criminal Waco Walker. One of Waco’s men kills a farmer and two sons. Johnny has to muster his courage and law enforcement skills to stop additional bloodshed and protect a major gold shipment. It won’t be easy as the bandits...

No lawman has ever been tested under fire as Sheriff Clay Granger. The lawman must respond to a large murderous Vortman family intent on leaving behind a trail of blood and fear in 1874 Empire, Texas. The Vortmans, led by evil patriarch Asa Vortman, don't mind burning, shooting, bludgeoning or blowing up anyone who gets in their way. To complicate matters, the insidious gang are holed up a most well protected pieces of real estate on the frontier, Ridge Country. Nobody can lay a hand on them in the barren, rugged rock terrain. Or can they? That's Clay’s mission as he fights against the ...