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England, 1940: When seventeen-year-old John Sharratt’s life is shattered by a single, devastating bomb dropped by the Luftwaffe, he is thrust into a world of loss and longing. With his family gone and his heart heavy, John’s conscription into the army offers a refuge and a new beginning, even in the face of turmoil.

Haunted by the memory of the SULTANA riverboat disaster, where he witnessed countless lives perish, Deputy U.S. Marshal Lucas Cain reunites with his old friend, Jim Barnes, now living as a small rancher. When Jim's livelihood is shattered by the ruthless theft of two hundred cows, Lucas pledges to recover the stolen herd.

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 ...

Reed Morrow is happy making a living hunting buffalo on the Kansas plain. But he makes a change after he finds his best friend with a bullet in his neck. He’s turning his rifles away from the buffalo herd and training them on the ruthless outlaw that pulled the trigger – Bradshaw Devlin. Bradshaw failed as a buffalo hunter. But he’s starting to make a fortune from his new trade – cold murder. Following the buffalo herd closely, Reed finds bloody echoes of Bradshaw’s rampage along the trail. Reed thinks he’s alone in his hunt. Until he meets Celia Arnold. Celia’s family has ...

With a growing reputation as a trail boss, Nate Carlton, wants to forget the Civil war and make his way in the west. Having successfully pioneered driving collective herds from the depressed South, Nate leaves the trail head to look up an old friend. He finds Isobel Hart and her family caught up in a run to take over the mining boom town of Langtonville. Caught between opposing factions he has to make a decision: to take a side or walk away. Fate takes a hand and he is forced to use his deadly skill with a gun. But will one man be enough to face the overwhelming odds of land grabbers, ...

The first adventure in a brand-new Western series from Alfred Wallon! When young Deputy Marshal Pete Hooker is brutally murdered after uncovering a plot to smuggle weapons to revolutionary Miguel Otero, hardened U.S. Marshal Jim Kennedy rides into El Paso to finish the job. But time is running out—the first shipment of rifles has already slipped through, and Otero’s blood-soaked revolution looms. Navigating a viper’s nest of smugglers, corrupt officials, and double-crossers, Kennedy battles ambushes, treachery, and his own limits to stop the next shipment.

Colton Day, a veteran of the Mexican-American War as well as of the Civil War, is a rugged figure on the Texas frontier. The former lawman was recently the toast of Temple Ridge, Texas in 1866, helping the town fight off a gang of ruthless killers and outlaws. Colton’s unique set of skills are needed again to help his lifelong friend, Running Deer, an educated and savvy Kiowa Indian. Running Deer’s wife and little girl have been kidnapped by a nefarious group of outlaws dealing with the illegal sale of human beings. Many of these people are coerced into participating in exhibitions ...

COMANCHE MOON In the lands of the Comanche only strength prevails. Returning from trail bossing a cattle drive, Nate Carlton was looking to hole up for the winter, working his ranch in South Texas. The Uvalde valley was a peaceful basin, recovering from the Civil War and fighting its way back to prosperity. Deep in Comanche territory the spectre of an Indian attack was ever present, but so far they had lived in peace. Then everything changed, the peaceful valley was ripped apart to the sound of Comanche war cries: the powerful Comanche nation are seemingly well supplied with new guns and ...

Plainsman series book 4 Troubled Border A foiled bank robbery could lead to another major war. At the trailhead Nate Carlton enters a bank as it is being robbed, unaware that his life will change forever. All but one of the gang lie dead, yet this is no ordinary raid. Nate learns that the money was for a cause, more deadly and with greater ramifications than the recent war that tore the country apart. Desperate to forget the past horrors of the Civil war, he is reluctantly drawn into a terrible conflict, enlisting with the rebels to save both his adopted country and that of a land he ...

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 seen since the end of a broken marriage—Morg realizes that some trails don't end quietly. Old grudges run deep, and there are those who would see Morg buried before they let him ride off into the sunset.

Solitary and legendary shooter Dan “Three Hands” Roberts learns about a tragedy on a wanted poster – the Barber Boys are wanted for the deaths of two men and a house burned to ashes. The victims? Dan’s father and brother. It was a twisted revenge served cold by the Barber Boys after Dan killed Wes Barber, one of the gang members, in a fair duel. But Dan’s mother and sister have managed to flee, and it is up to Dan to protect his surviving kin. The Barber Boys, merciless brothers with a mining fortune, will put anyone in the ground if they stand in their way of making money, ...

Widowed railroad heiress Beth Huntington must adapt or die. A year ago, she didn’t see all this coming. Beth Huntington had lived a quiet life as the wife of a railroad magnate with her son, Tommy. Everything changes when her husband succumbed to yellow fever, and she becomes the heiress to his vast railroad empire. Now, the widow must fend off attacks from her competitors and earn a place for herself in a man’s world. Her enemies will stop at nothing to see her fail. With her life in peril, Beth sets out for the Wild West, determined to succeed. There, amid the dusty trails and lawless...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nine. Scattered across the Indian Territory. US Marshal Caleb Maddox has been warned against going after them. After a brutal train robbery by the Harvey Gang leaves his best friend dead, Caleb is determined to bring the nine outlaws to justice. Led by Cutter Ray Harvey, robbing that train was just another day’s work for him and his eight desperados. And leaving the innocent dead? A regular occurrence. With the sting of his friend’s death still fresh, Caleb hunts the nine outlaws in their hideouts across the Indian Territory and takes them all down. One by one. But after finding the...

En un mundo extrañamente parecido al nuestro Roland Deschain de Gilead persigue a su enemigo, el hombre de negro. Roland, solitario, quizá maldito, anda sin descanso a través de un paisaje triste y abandonado. Conoce a Jake, un chico de Nueva York pero de otro tiempo, y ambos unen sus destinos. Ante ellos están las montañas. Y mucho más allá, la Torre Oscura....

En un valle remoto, oculto entre la cordillera de los Andes, se encuentra «País de los ciegos»: un pueblo donde todos sus habitantes han perdido la visión. Cuando un aventurero llega a sus tierras, luego de una expedición fallida en las montañas, la vida de los pobladores—tan apacible y ordenada hasta ese momento—da un vuelco inesperado.

Las autoridades mexicanas y del estado de Texas organizan una expedición paramilitar para acabar con el mayor número posible de indios. Es el Grupo Glanton, y tienen como líder espiritual al juez Holden, un ser violento y cruel. Nunca duerme, viola y asesina niños de ambos sexos y afirma que nunca morirá. Todo cambia cuando los carniceros de Glanton dejan de asesinar indios y empiezan a exterminar a los mexicanos que les pagan. Se instaura así la ley de la selva, el terreno moral donde la figura del juez se convierte en una especie de dios arbitrario.

TEXAS, 1919 La guerra ha terminado, pero Harry Wilson regresa convertido en la sombra de sí mismo. Sin una pierna, sin esperanza y con un corazón endurecido por el dolor, ha renunciado a todo, incluso a la posibilidad de volver a amar. Cuando Lucy Martin, la mujer que lo engañó para casarse con él en el pasado, se entera de su estado, decide hacer lo impensado: regresar a su vida para cuidarlo, aun sabiendo que él la odia. Lucy está dispuesta a soportar el desprecio de Harry con tal de devolverle la esperanza y lo que alguna vez le arrebató: la felicidad. En medio del rencor, la ...

¡Prepárate para una emocionante experiencia con esta nueva historia que trae de regreso el clásico Libro Vaquero! Con una serie Neo-Western cargada de acción y aventuras, serás testigo de un mundo postapocalíptico en el año 2100, donde la humanidad se enfrenta al borde de la extinción tras múltiples pandemias y experimentos médicos que han causado una infertilidad masiva.

Situada en 1949, en las tierras fronterizas entre Texas y México, Todos los hermosos caballos se centra en el personaje de John Grady Cole, un muchacho de dieciséis años, hijo de padres separados. Tras la muerte de su abuelo decide huir a México en compañía de su amigo Lacey: allí se encontrarán con un mundo marcado por la dureza y la violencia.