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Fort Riley cavalryman Chad Taylor returns to the Kansas Flint Hills expecting to decide whether his future lies with the Army or on his family’s ranch. Instead, a chance meeting with young artist Frederic Remington and the discovery of an isolated limestone house draw him into a conspiracy far larger than either man imagined.

Someone is plotting...

Life in the Nebraska Sandhills has never been easy, but young farmer Rachel Taylor has learned to face hardship with quiet resolve. When a battered stranger wanders onto her land asking only for a meal and a place to rest, she offers help without knowing that the meeting will change both their lives.

The man remembers nothing—not his name, not...

Morg Fraser thought his days of chasing outlaws were behind him. But when a haunting plea for help arrives—and a string of strange murders follows—the retired lawman can’t ignore the call. Some say it’s justice. Others call it the lawman’s curse.

Riding back into the Nebraska Sandhills, Morg faces more than just danger on the trail. He faces the...

When Ginny’s family is slaughtered and her two young sisters taken captive by a ruthless Comanche band led by the feared warrior Angry Wolf, she’s left for dead on her family’s bloodstained Texas farmstead. But fate intervenes when two strangers--Con, a determined young man, and Ezra, a weathered mountain man--find her barely clinging to life.

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U.S. Marshal Morgan “Morg” Fraser has spent a lifetime walking the hard line between justice and survival. Now sixty, and with his days on the trail numbered, Morg wants nothing more than to fade quietly into the Nebraska Sandhills he’s always known. But when he’s unexpectedly tasked with caring for his 12-year-old son, Andy—a boy he’s barely...

“Yes, I will go to the West. It has been calling me since I was a boy.”

Driven by an unrelenting wanderlust, Henry Ossian Flipper, the first Black cadet to graduate from West Point, sets out on a remarkable journey across the American West. From the heights of glory he achieves during the Apache Wars to the depths of despair brought by a...

Charles Hanover is no ordinary outlaw; he claims royal blood from a distant European throne and he is as ruthless as he is cunning. When a bank robbery he masterminds ends with the kidnapping of one of the Rivers family’s own, the stakes are higher than ever.

As the dust settles on the robbery, the Rivers family and their allies unite to form a...

In the heart of the Nebraska Sandhills, as 1887 draws to a close, Gage Kraft and his grandson, Sam, find themselves grappling with the challenges and unpredictability of life on the frontier. Their lives, marked by the day-to-day work of operating their K Bar K Ranch, take a tumultuous turn as they delve into the shadowy dealings of cattle...

In the rugged expanse of the New Mexico Territory in 1862, two unlikely friends emerge from the chaos of the Civil War. Obadiah “Bushwa” Sparks, a banjo-playing scalawag with a talent for staying alive, and Win Evans, an earnest Iowa farmboy, embark on a new adventure together but just as quickly find themselves compelled to part ways.

While...

THE ACCIDENTAL SHERIFF
Hoping to escape his past and find creative inspiration, Western dime novelist Grant Coolidge heads west, landing in Lockwood, a burgeoning railroad town in Wyoming Territory. Struck by the beauty of the neighboring mountains and ranch lands and intrigued by the town’s inhabitants, he quickly settles into his new life west...

“Doc” Hayes had experienced enough tragedy for several lifetimes, but he thought he had finally found his sanctuary amidst the rugged beauty of the Guadalupe Mountain range. Together with his friend and business partner, Conor Byrne, a West Point graduate with a taste for adventure, Doc was the center of what he hoped would be a burgeoning...

Family life seems to be suiting Grant Coolidge just fine. His career as an author of Western dime novels is flourishing, and his wife, Hannah, is due with their first child together any day. But domestic bliss on their ranch outside of Lockwood, Wyoming is disturbed when his young friend, Brady “Trouble” Yates goes missing, and foul play is...

Just when he thought his lawman days were over, duty calls once again for Grant Coolidge, as a range war erupts around his new home of Lockwood. Initially reluctant to get in the middle of a battle that’s not his to fight, the rise of brutal vigilante justice dished out by a group led by a mysterious and menacing man riding a pale horse pushes...

Greed. Land. Lawlessness.

These ingredients do not portend a peaceful life in Nebraska’s Pine Ridge country for Dan McClure. Dan’s not afraid to fire a gun, but after a lifetime of fighting, he would rather wield a paintbrush. When he’s thrust into the middle of a range war, however, he has but two options . . . and Dan’s not one to run away...

Hoping to escape his past and find creative inspiration, Western dime novelist Grant Coolidge heads west, landing in Lockwood, a burgeoning railroad town in Wyoming Territory. Struck by the beauty of the neighboring mountains and ranch lands and intrigued by the town’s inhabitants, he quickly settles into his new life west of the Mississippi.

But...

With a baby on the way, Sierra Jackson is uncertain about the dog with the “spooky looking” eye her husband, Jordy, returns home with to their house on the Lucky Five Ranch. Their Uncle Rudy’s health appears to be failing, ranch operation funds are tight, and a family new to the ranch brings with them a host of complications. With all of life’s...

Between them, George and Libby Snapp have amassed thousands of acres of ranch land in the Nebraska Sandhills near the boom town of North Platte. But after years of growing apart, Libby wants to end their marriage. There’s just one problem, her young lawyer, Ari Adams, tells her: there are no evident grounds for a divorce to be granted.

Not to be...

After years of running away from a tragic past, featuring detours as a soldier, cowhand, and deputy sheriff, Rance Coldsmith hoped to make a new life as a “cowman” with a small ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. On a late summer evening in 1877, as he decides to investigate the smoke plumes rising from a neighboring farm, his life will change...

THE BLOOD HOUNDS - Book 1
Fifteen years after the disappearance of Miranda Wheaton, Pinkerton agents Trace Crockett and Darby Maguire must leave no stone unturned while evading Kansas twisters, surviving Dodge City gunfights, and embarking on a treacherous journey to “No Man’s Land,” as the two “blood hounds” try to pick up the scent of the...

Winner of the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel
Finalist - Will Rogers Medallion Award Western Fiction

Jack Wills and his longtime friend and saddle partner of nearly forty years, Rudolph Kilgore, assumed they had long ago outrun their last Comanche war party. Tending to the Lucky Five Ranch with Thor, Jack’s 12-year-old...