Her protective instincts brought out by Emma, who was sent to New Mexico to marry a man she has never met, Addie French takes her new friend under her wing, and the pair begins unfolding secrets, hatching schemes, and questioning everything they once believed.

In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, and another "accident”, that almost takes Joey's life, the boy runs away and joins forces with his only kin-Beau Shipman, a drunk and a jailbird. Beau, along with an outlaw, a San Antonio prostitute,...

From one of the West's greatest living storytellers, winner of numerous awards, including the Spur, the Golden Saddleman, and the Western Heritage Award, here is Elmer Kelton's magnificent new novel of the wildcat West Texas oil boom of the 1920s. It used to be that the worst crime in Caprock was moonshining or lying about your Saturday night date on Sunday morning-until someone struck oil. Now the scent of the stuff has brought every dreamer, drifter,...

Helping Whip Watson hand-deliver two dozen brides to the silver boom town of Calico, Micah Bishop soon discovers that Whip has some killer competition in the form of a woman named Candy who is determined to get to the town first with her own bevy of beauties.

With more than two million copies of his books in print, Cameron Judd has delivered pulse-pounding tales of the Old West to countless fans. In The Treasure of Jericho Mountain, Jeremy Prine is reunited with old Civil War buddies to go after close to a million dollars in stolen loot. But despicable killers have also caught scent of the treasure-and before it's all over more than one corpse is sure to be planted in the local bone orchard.

"Ace and Chance Jensen serve on a jury that convicts a killer. The brother of the hanged killer comes to town with plans to slaughter the jurors one by one, but the Jensen boys don't plan to let him succeed"--

Nothing stirs up emotions in Texas like men stealing other men's horses. Texas Ranger Andy Pickard is assigned what seems to be a routine duty. West Texas horse trader Donley Bannister has killed a thug named Cletus Slocum who stole one of his horses. Ranger Pickard is to find and arrest Bannister, and bring him to trial. But the case turns out to be anything but routine. When Pickard finds him holed up with some cohorts, Bannister saves the Ranger's...

Smoke Jensen deals with a blizzard on the trail and a bounty on his head in the New York Times bestselling Western series by "a masterful storyteller"(Publishers Weekly).
Looking for bounty
Mountain man Smoke Jensen lives by the rules of the frontier. The first rule is: The strongest survive. But when bad breaks, bad weather, and bad bovines back Smoke into a corner, he needs something to go right. Instead,...

Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully...

Driven from his home, a Rebel finds a place among the Cheyenne. Joel Ryan returns from the Civil War with grey hair and a weary heart, but he finds no rest in Kentucky. Turned away by a brother who still blames Joel for abandoning the family to fight for the Confederate cause, Joel rides west, searching for peace in the untamed wilderness of Montana. Instead, against all odds, he finds love. When he sees the gang of thugs tormenting the young Cheyenne...