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It’s John Wayne Orkney’s first week as a cop. There’s already one dead body, two old flames, a half-feral foster brother, and a murder suspect who once slept with him… and recently ran over the police chief with a mobility scooter. Welcome back to Camelot, West Virginia—a down-but-not-out Appalachian town full of ghosts, grudges, and folks trying to claw their way back. Some with magic. Some with moonshine. John Wayne never wanted a badge. He’s already juggling EMT runs, trying to launch a business, and keeping tabs on his three wild brothers. Then there’s Gallagher Lance—...

There are those who would harm America. Terrorists. Assassins. Foreign operatives. The Border Patrol tries to hold back the lethal tsunami, but at times it’s just overwhelming. At times, America needs a scalpel, not a sword. That’s Billy Gamble. Billy is a Wyoming horse breeder. Mostly Quarter Horses and the occasional Appaloosa. He is also a Super Matcher, one of five in the world and the only one in America. Better than a machine and more accurate than artificial intelligence, Billy can pick out a face in a crowd and no disguise or even plastic surgery can fool him. It’s a talent he...

A mysterious old mining town from the old west draws the attention of a police squad while a series of murders and bank robberies take place. Sergeant Payne decides to send in Cole Parker, his top homicide investigator. Cole becomes informed of the town's wild west history, and he makes some shocking discoveries. But uncovering a secret passageway, hidden hatchways, and an underground tunnel is just the beginning. He begins to realize that the bank robbers have more of a history than he imagined, and he soon finds himself in dreadful danger.

A child vanishes, and the silence that follows feels deliberate. In Red Willow County, former lawman and private investigator Cole Maddox knows the land the way some men know scripture. He knows its back roads, its forgotten places, and the way winter can erase more than tracks. He also knows what it is to live with a question that never loosens its grip. When a new case pulls him toward a burned-out site called Juniper Ridge, the answers come slowly, and not without cost. People hesitate. Records resist. The past begins to surface in ways that feel uncomfortably personal, as if the land ...

In C.J. Box's Badlands, the town of Grimstad used to be a place people came from but were never headed to. Now it’s the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest criminals Grimstad’s new deputy sheriff Cassie Dewell has ever...

On a sunny May morning in 1998 in Cortez, Colorado, three desperados in a stolen truck opened fire on the town cop, shooting him 20 times; then they blasted their way past dozens of police cars and disappeared into 10,000 square miles of the harshest wilderness terrain on the North American continent. Self-trained survivalists, the outlaws eluded the most sophisticated law enforcement technology on the planet and a pursuit force that represented more than 75 local, state, and federal police agencies with dozens of SWAT teams, U.S. Army Special Forces....

The story of Gaiatri Singh: FBI-agent, Cowgirl, and Indian.

A herd of wild horses that shouldn’t exist. A scientist who dies before he can tell the truth. And a desert canyon hiding a billion-dollar lie. When equine behavior specialist Sofi Reyes is recruited to investigate a mysterious herd of Colonial Spanish mustangs discovered deep in the Davis Mountains, the find sounds like a miracle for wildlife conservation. A “ghost herd” untouched for a century could rewrite Texas history. But Sofi doesn’t believe in miracles. She believes in evidence. The horses’ behavior is wrong. Their movements are wrong. Even the soil beneath their hooves ...

The vicious Mexican cartel war boils over into the Big Bend in the explosive new novel from the author of The Far Empty and High White Sun. In the Mexican borderlands, a busload of student protesters is gunned down in broad daylight, a violent act blamed on the Nemesio cartel. But its aging...

On the border, there are stories people tell in low voices—stories that shift with the wind, stories that carry the weight of truth even when no one can prove them. And the one name that keeps rising from the dust, again and again, is Juancho. He wasn’t born an outlaw. He became one. Once, he was a young undocumented worker chasing the American promise. But promises break easier than bones, and the country that claimed to offer hope only showed him the back of its hand. When he walked away from the U.S., he wasn’t running. He was leaving behind a place that had nothing left to teach ...

The Kiahawks, a mysterious and isolated warrior nation were defeated by the United States Army in the late 1800’s and forced onto a reservation at the base of Red Sky Mountain. Neglected by the government who put them there over a century and a half ago, and shunned by the local ranching community, the tribe struggles with financial poverty and cultural depression until the J-Bar-S ranch is built and the owners hire Kiahawks to work it. Resentment fills the hearts of the people of Lake Shanoha and their dislike for the tribe grows to outright hatred. After three teenagers from town ...

Kihawk Volume 2. This story hits the ground running right where volume one ends! After performing the brutal Kobani ritual, the Kiahawk elders resurrect their most powerful warrior chief Winter Wolf, who prepares for an all-out battle against a modern-day army. FBI agent Kirk Wallace arrives in Lake Shanoha to investigate several murders, both in town and on the reservation, where supernatural events test his steadfast grasp of reality. Heartbroken by the current state of the Kiahawk people, Winter Wolf uses his medicine to travel back in time in an attempt to change their fate, leaving it ...

Ty Dawson, now the sheriff of Oregon's Meriwether County, is ready to put a trying year behind him, but he's afforded no such luck. In a country still coming to grips with the Vietnam War, Watergate, and Charles Manson, Ty's neck of the woods isn't safe from the turmoil-especially when a commune of young so-called hippies springs up out of nowhere . . .

In a dying West Virginia town, the truth is more toxic than the water. Giovanni Moretti arrives in Ashford chasing the story that will define his career: a chemical plant poisoning its community while corporate lawyers bury the evidence in settlements and silence. What he finds is Beatrice Rappaccini—a twenty-two-year-old woman who has lived her entire life saturated with industrial toxins, her body adapted to contamination in ways that make her both medical marvel and living proof of corporate crime. Beatrice has never left her family's garden, where plants grow in impossible colors, ...

NOT EVERY IMMIGRANT IS A THREAT. Not every threat crossed the border illegally. Everyone is watching the workers. No one is watching the cells. Along the Arizona–Mexico border, ranchers, law enforcement, and border families begin to notice something that doesn’t fit the narrative. The people harvesting crops and chasing a better life aren’t the ones organizing violence. The real danger is quieter. Smarter. Embedded. As cartel routes become saturated with something far more sinister than drugs, unlikely alliances form between Mexican ranchers, American landowners, and a handful of ...

Once Upon a Broken Time A simple man in a complicated time. When a city cop turns up dead in a quiet town under suspicious circumstances, the official story doesn’t sit right with Dave Miller. Among other hints of fowl play, whispers of a drug pipeline running through backcountry trails start to surface, and more indications of turbulence are in the air. With law enforcement looking the other way and too many folks content to stay quiet, Dave does what he’s always done: he gets to work. Alongside his loyal dogs, a sharp-shooting wife who’s as steady under pressure as he is, and a ...

Sometimes it takes decades to find your true family… but only a moment to lose them.Separated at birth, these twins find they have more than genetics in common: they’re both the target of killers who are willing to risk everything to take them out. Third book in That Twin Thing series, the excitement keeps on going for Van, Junior, Cindy, and everyone else they meet. Was peace even possible?