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Thirteen-year-old Brady “Trouble” Yates takes a detour when he hears gunshots and hysterical screaming on his way from a trip into the small town of Lockwood, Wyoming and decides he should investigate the commotion. What Brady discovers puts his own life at risk, and he knows he can’t return home, so he heads for the hills to lie low while he...

While the War of Rebellion rages on back east, military surgeon Captain Gage Fleming is thrust into the middle of death and destruction on the other side of the country, as he tends to the Navajo forced on a 450-mile “long walk” from Fort Defiance to Fort Sumner in 1864. Amidst the brutality of the journey, Gage develops some unlikely...

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL - The Law Wranglers Book 1 After several long years of trying to put the past behind him, Josh Rivers finds himself intertwined in a case that has him leaving the comforts of his life in Santa Fe for the desolation of the Staked Plains. In his quest to find a young woman abducted by the Comanche, Josh must confront the...

“He told me to get the blood hounds. I knew who he wanted. That’s why I’m here.”

In the aftermath of a bloody train robbery, The Pinkerton Detective Agency enlists the newly married detectives Trace and Darby Crockett to track down the gold bullion that was stolen from the train, as well as one of the passengers who was abducted by the outlaws:...

“You’ve got to find a young woman or prove she’s dead. And it’s a cold trail. That’s why the boss man called for the blood hounds. You’re looking for somebody who’s been considered dead since April of 1867.”

Fifteen years after the disappearance of Miranda Wheaton, Pinkerton agents Trace Crockett and Darby Maguire must leave no stone unturned...

Clutching the telegram in his hand, Josh Rivers could not believe it. Not again. Tabby dancing with death, perhaps her last waltz. He loved his little sister. And he was terrified for her fate.

In Escape from El Gato, the sixth novel in the popular Law Wranglers series, Tabby Rivers’s wanderlust leads to a terrifying abduction by the Apache...

Chaos and bloodshed befalls the Bar P in northern New Mexico as seven riders seeking vengeance descend upon the vast 30,000-acre land grant spread. Spared by the attackers—for now—is Adam Laurent, the owner of the Bar P . . . but only until his first wife, Lilith, can calculate how to best claim the land as her own upon his death.

As they are...

FINALIST - WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA BEST WESTERN HISTORICAL NOVEL

FINALIST - WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD WESTERN FICTION

Captain Will Nilsson’s journey to the War of the Rebellion is deferred by the President of the United States so he can be the administration’s eyes and ears on the ground of what would later be referred to as the Dakota War of...

NIGHT OF THE COYOTE - The Coyote Saga Book 1
In 1875, two young Sioux are lynched in Lockwood, Wyoming by a makeshift posse for a crime they may or may not have committed. Ethan Ramsey knows he must act quickly to prevent a bloody retaliation from their Sioux tribe. Can he gain the trust of both the Sioux and the townspeople of Lockwood to allow...

Thad Locke was not surprised to discover a dead body in the aftermath of a fire on a small homestead in the Kansas Flint Hills. That the cause of death appeared to be a bullet hole through the skull, however, was a surprise. When a member of the Locke family goes missing shortly thereafter, and the sheriff and his deputies are slow to act, the...

Winner of the Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award for Best Western Novel of 2018

“Grit” McKay survived the bloodiest battles of the Civil War without incurring as much as a single scratch on his body. When money became hard to come by after the war, he began taking jobs to recover white children that had been abducted by raiding bands of...

A thrilling ride is set in motion when a sergeant’s wife is murdered at Fort Sill and Broken Wing, a young Comanche brave, is found at the murder scene, dazed and chanting. Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, fighting the U.S. government over his tribe’s refusal to adopt the white man’s laws and forsake polygamy and the use of peyote, requests his...

A man searching for his lost son amidst the last days of the Comanche wars!

DEAL WITH THE DEVIL - The Law Wranglers Book 1
After several long years of trying to put the past behind him, Josh Rivers finds himself intertwined in a case that has him leaving the comforts of his life in Santa Fe for the desolation of the Staked Plains. In his quest to...

On assignment for the Bureau of Investigation in the summer of 1927, Trey Ramsey seeks information regarding the disappearances of young Sioux women from their reservations in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Meanwhile, young rancher Kate Connolly is at the right place at the right time to thwart an assassination attempt on the President of the...

The murder of a prominent member of Santa Fe society brings a high profile criminal defense client to the Rivers & Sinclair law firm, but will Josh Rivers’s history with both the victim and suspect make for an untenable attorney-client relationship? And what will the collateral damage be to those trying to seek the truth to what really...

Set amidst the last days of the Comanche wars, The Last Hunt continues the story of the Rivers family, whose fates are intertwined with the Comanche—and their great war chief, Quanah Parker—both personally and professionally. The decisions Quanah makes as the conflict nears its end will have a far-reaching effect beyond his Comanche nation, and...

Ethan Ramsey arrived too late. Death. Destruction. Despair. He vowed to seek out the barbarians who laid waste to the small Sioux village, leaving but only a very few women and children alive. Assembling a rag-tag search party, Ethan embarks on a journey to find the killers while maintaining a glimmer of hope that he has not seen the last of...

As tensions continue to escalate between the U. S. Army and the Comanche, members of the Rivers family find themselves involved on multiple fronts of the “Red River War.” Josh Rivers discovers his efforts to covertly negotiate on behalf of his newest client have been exposed, and now he finds himself looking over his shoulder, even in the...

“There are other lawyers in New Mexico,” Josh said.

“But not many that would know about hunting for a girl among the Comanche,” Levi replied.

And so after several long years of trying to put the past behind him, Josh Rivers finds himself intertwined in a case that has him leaving the comforts of his life in Santa Fe for the desolation of the...

A murder trial would normally be of little interest to Thad Locke, who escaped the “family disease” of law wrangling, but two women--one the accused murderess, the other a member of her defense team--have intertwined themselves with both Thad and his lawyering family.

Will Kirsten Cavelle be the first woman sent to the gallows in the state of...