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Dean Fairchild wants more from life but he doesn’t see it happening in the sleepy town of Winston, New Mexico. When his desires get bigger than his town, and the teachings of his father the local preacher, he runs away from home to find his destiny. Joining up with Nester Strong and his gang, Dean learns the subtle arts of robbery and racketeering. Till it gets too much. There are lines that Dean will not cross. When he witnesses a crime too heinous for his moral sensibilities, he loots as much as he can and runs back to a home he once knew. But Winston has changed. Plagued with petty ...

Carson ‘Colt’ Knight has been promoted to Captain in the Texas Rangers and a new mission has been given to him in a mining town in the south. But a childhood promise remains like an old bruise in his heart, keeping him from complete happiness. Twenty years ago, his mother was killed at the hands of Sammy Day and his outlaws. Colt was only four. When news arrives of an infamous outlaw being sighted in a town nearby, Colt learns that he is none other than Sammy, riding with his ruthless gang to plunder any town in their way. On his trail to bring down the outlaws, Colt meets Felicity, a ...

At the ripe age of twenty-six, Texas Ranger Beau Knight decided to settle down. But before he can put up his guns and badge for good, he’s tasked with one last assignment. Ransom Falls is a thriving town on the wrong side of the Pecos River. Boasting seven large ranches, bustling markets, a church, and the prettiest maiden in all of Texas, Beau finds Ransom Falls the ideal place to pitch his tent in permanently. But nightly raids by a nearby Indian settlement hound the town and leave its people vulnerable. With the help of local law enforcement, Beau goes to eliminate the ‘threat’. ...

Jed Walker, the newly appointed deputy, has long been wary of Father Davenport, a charismatic man who is slowly influencing the youth of his town. When Jed hears about the death of one of his townsmen, Luke Hamilton, due to a tragic farming accident, he suspects murder, and his investigation points toward the Church of God’s Righteous Justice on Earth. With the help of Mayor Bill Hicks, Mayor Ace Knight and the gutsy Persephone Cross, Deputy Jed strike out at this menace but they have severely underestimated the kind of power Father Davenport holds on his congregation, and how they’re ...

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 current challenges, Sierra just has reservations about the other new addition to the Jackson family.

When Lieutenant James Bowman steps off the train in 1920s Salisbury, Rhodesia, he carries more than his kitbag—he bears the weight of war trauma and abandoned love. His encounter with Colonel Voss, an aging adventurer with tales of ancient civilisations and promises of glory, offers an escape from his haunted past. "The legend has it there was a great civilisation here when we in Europe were still climbing trees and living in caves," Voss claims, drawing Jim into a dangerous expedition into Africa's heartland.

In the late 1860s, the Oregon Trail was said to have a grave every mile, its two-thousand-mile stretch wrought with hardship and danger. But in 1840, no wagons had yet made the treacherous journey to the Columbia River.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has written a revolutionary road map to saving our children from leftist indoctrination. Behind a smokescreen of “preparing students for the new industrial economy,” early progressives had political...

Steep mountain climbs, Indian raids, and lonely New Mexico roads bathed in murderous heat – Crow Woodruff has seen it all. But he’s never had an ex-boss try to shoot him dead. Tired of being treated like a slave, Crow leaves Lawrence Bain’s freighting company and soon finds himself in charge of his own. Now, Bain is losing his fortune. He’s desperate to regain his domination of the supply routes and all the people he abuses for to maintain a life of luxury. With their bitter past fueling his desire to triumph over Bain, Crow refuses to put his mules back in the stall. It’s not ...

"Ashmore creates fierce characters with confidence and authority. A fresh and welcome Western narrative." -Best-Selling Author Ralph Cotton Lem Jenkins is a man sentenced to hang for his crimes. John Riley is the bounty hunter who brought him to justice. A jail escape in the middle of the night sends Riley back out on the trail of Jenkins. This time, the young bounty hunter may be taking on more than he can handle. Jenkins will do anything to keep away from the hangman’s noose and Riley wants to see justice done. They are both riding a losing trail. Excerpt The horse was tired and injured...

A Western Adventure by Ronnie Ashmore "Ashmore creates fierce characters with confidence and authority. A fresh and welcome Western narrative." -Best-Selling Author Ralph Cotton The Deceiving Trail John Riley went against his better judgement and hired on for what he thought was an easy job guiding a preacher and his daughter. The job was supposed to be quick and easy with a good payday. But now there are gunmen on the trail of the Milner’s and Riley has been marked for death, even though he doesn’t understand why. He hired on to protect them, and he never leaves a job undone. He has ...

A Western Adventure by Ronnie Ashmore "Ashmore creates fierce characters with confidence and authority. A fresh and welcome Western narrative." -Best-Selling Author Ralph Cotton The Vengeance Trail The past year and a half have been a test of wills and hard lessons learned for the bounty hunter John Riley. Now feeling he needs to set things right by capturing the one outlaw he let get away, he rides into the town he last saw the outlaw. He soon finds he has ridden into a race war involving his friends and a dangerous group of men. He’s not the same unsure boy he was when he was last in ...

A Western Adventure by Ronnie Ashmore "Ashmore creates fierce characters with confidence and authority. A fresh and welcome Western narrative." -Best-Selling Author Ralph Cotton -A Bullet for Malo- After a year of living a peaceful life, John Riley takes on his toughest hunt yet. When a teenaged Mexican girl is kidnapped by an outlaw leader it becomes obvious to Riley that no one wants to help find her. Riley is determined to find her and bring her home safe. He meets up with a notorious border bandit, who is a notorious killer, who has reasons of his own for wanting to find the girl. They ...

A Western Adventure by Ronnie Ashmore "Ashmore creates fierce characters with confidence and authority. A fresh and welcome Western narrative." -Best-Selling Author Ralph Cotton -The Claren Range Dispute- John Riley finds himself working as a lawman in a backwater town that seems to need no law. But there is a fight brewing between two major land holders and Riley will need to keep his wits about him if he is to see it settled. Riley is a man with his own sense of what is right and wrong, but to get out of Claren alive he will have to dispense justice the only way he knows how.

A Western Adventure by Ronnie Ashmore A simple trip to Austin so his wife can shop is anything but simple for Sam Bolton. Caroline is attacked and gunned down in the streets by an outlaw with a taste for killing. With her life in the balance, Sam sets off to find the man responsible. Along the way he discovers that chasing this outlaw will test his limits and his patience. Teaming up with the man’s cousin, they follow the killer’s crooked trail of destruction and deception. This is one trail Sam Bolton won’t let go cold because this time he is riding to settle a score with the man who...

Hay secretos de familia que merecen ser contados.Esta es la historia de uno de ellos. Una noche de febrero de 1900, recién estrenado el siglo XX, en el pazo de Espíritu Santo llegan al mundo dos niñas, Clara y Catalina, cuyos destinos ya estaban escritos. Sin embargo, una venganza inesperada sacudirá para siempre sus vidas y las de todos los Valdés.

La gran voz de la narrativa femenina de nuestro país vuelve con La casa de huéspedes. Una espléndida saga de mujeres tan reales como la vida misma. Madrid, 1937. En el preciso instante en que una bomba cae sobre un edificio del centro de la ciudad, cerca de la Gran Vía, las vidas de dos jóvenes vecinas cambian para siempre. Elvira, cuyos padres regentan la casa de huéspedes ubicada en la tercera planta, se encuentra exiliada de la Guerra Civil en Francia en el momento de la explosión. Sin embargo, la desaparición del hogar al que tanto anhela regresar supondrá un punto y aparte en su destino.

San Francisco, 1866: una monja irlandesa, embarazada y abandonada por un aristócrata chileno tras una apasionada relación, da a luz a una niña a la que llama Emilia del Valle. Criada por su cariñoso padrastro, Emilia se convertirá en una joven brillante de gran personalidad, autónoma e independiente, que desafiará las normas sociales de su tiempo para profesar su verdadera pasión y vocación: la escritura.

Clotilde, una artista gráfica que dibuja caricaturas para los diarios republicanos, asiste en Madrid a los últimos meses de la Guerra Civil. La caída de la República es inminente, por lo que su marido, militante comunista que trabaja para los rusos, decide enviar a Moscú a su hijo Pablo, de tan solo cinco años, en contra de su voluntad.

Henry Lloyd, un hombre con un enigmático pasado, logra forjar a sangre y fuego una inmensa fortuna, a mediados del siglo XIX. Junto con su ejército de esclavos libertos y sus dos hijos mulatos, Lloyd invade tierras, saquea, asesina. Osado, sólo le teme a Jack Barley, su némesis, el único capaz de derrumbar su imperio.