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As a boy, Wyn Witcomb watches helplessly as his parents are killed during a deadly raid on their homestead. His sister Marly strikes a terrible bargain with the raiders' leader to save him, and he dedicates his life to finding her. Bringing frontier justice to the men who altered the course of his life one by one until he finds their elusive leader, and his sister, he becomes known as the Ghost Rider. Filled with beauty and complexity, with plenty of action for western fans, The Wild Country is a rip-roaring tale in the best tradition of legends told over a campfire. A classic western, ...

A young pretty teacher hiding a terrible secret, a young man grieving the loss of his parents, and an appointment with fate all collide in a small Oklahoma town during the 1970s. The tender, sweet and forbidden is sensitively dealt with in this atmospheric rural noir which will inevitably explode in violence, and require a miracle for anyone at all to survive…

The first three stories in the Matt Ransom series have been gathered together for the first time in this exciting and explosive collection. The Velvet Sea, The Tender Shore, and the powerful The Gentle Tide await readers just past the shore…

Brooke Lonesome is a Missouri legend who disappeared into the mountains long ago. Katie Wells is a slightly past her prime saloon girl with a young boy to raise. Haunted by the past, a chance meeting in Sonora with a kindly Mexican grape grower offers a second chance for both. The second sprawling and emotional story in the Wild Country saga gives readers a chance to revisit their favorite characters from the first novel, while making friends with new ones. The Trail to Santa Rosa is an intimate and emotional portrait of two damaged people looking for a second chance in an often unforgiving...

Tom and Karen become separated on a Saturday morning in the park when mankind is conquered by an alien race of unknown origin. In the harrowing aftermath, Tom at first believes he is the only survivor. He soon discovers he is not, and Saturday's Children becomes a tender tale of love and family. When the time comes to go searching for Karen, what he discovers changes the history of humankind. Saturday's Children truly is a moving story of humanity, an exciting yet poignant look at what we are, and what we might become one day, if given the chance.

A young writer down on his luck, wins a dream vacation to the California coast. Though he can't recall entering any contest, the opportunity is too good to pass up. Soon after his arrival, he meets a pretty surfer girl too wonderful to leave behind. But all may not be as it seems in this ethereal fantasy.

A private detective in Miami is hired to track down the wife of a powerful gangster. But when he finds her, and they fall in love, only a miracle can help them escape together.

A handsome young couple are having a morning of relaxation along the Spanish Riviera. Their conversation slowly begins to reveal that nothing at all is as it first appears…

The third entry in the Noir Shots series of short noir stories is a deeply moving and emotionally powerful tale of big city despair. Two children growing up together are at the whims of a father who might be far more than just a mean drunkard. As they grow closer, forming a bond borne of circumstance and desperation, their lives spiral toward an act of violence that almost seems fated. Beginning at the end, and then revealing how it got there through the haunted memories of the young man, a heartbreaking story emerges. * This ceaselessly somber noir contains mature themes and sensitive ...

A man devastated by the loss of his wife in a terrible bombing witnesses a strange rain where she appears to still be alive. Holding vigils by his window each night hoping to witness the phenomenon once again only brings him to the verge of mental and physical collapse. When a woman considered an expert in the paranormal, and a man well known for his theories in quantum mechanics not only believe him, but have a theory about what might be happening, the trio embark on a desperate chance that love can shatter all boundaries in this thrilling and moving short story.

Just outside San Francisco on a rainy evening, Matthew Saunders is on his way to meet the great love of his life, Evelyn Hollister. They have been meeting twice a year at the same hotel in San Francisco for a decade. Enraptured in their love for each other, a terrible circumstance has forced the couple to grasp at happiness whenever they can. As Matthew nears the beautiful city which holds so many of his most cherished memories, he recalls how he and Evelyn Hollister first met. Set in the 1960s and filled with atmosphere, Soft Winter Light is a tender and poignant story of love being all ...

Jeopardy lurks around every corner in these three intricately plotted Noir Shot entries. From Kentucky to New York, to the French Riviera, love collides with treachery and madness in a collection of old-fashioned noir stories no reader will ever forget.

The lure of Whisper Valley is too strong to resist for Wyn Witcomb and the gang. Indian legend says thousands of cattle roam free in the haunted and secret valley. But there is also a legend concerning an ambush of soldiers, and gold. Joining Wyn and his friends as they attempt to find the hidden valley is a foreman known only as the Southerner, and his young Cherokee bride, Awenasa. But with buffalo hunters holding a young girl hostage trailing them, Wyn and company may have more to worry about than those strange whispers on the wind Indian legend maintains are spirits of the dead. ...

In THE DAY KATHY DIED, the police arrest a man they see pushing a car off a cliff. A woman's body is inside. Once interrogated, a story so bizarre emerges, it simply can't be true. Or is it? A romantic horror/noir in which nothing is quite as it first appears. Set in the 1940s, this is horror and suspense in the old-fashioned tradition. In VOODOO ROAD, a woman is attempting to escape Montigua, an island in the Caribbean filled with evil. To do so she must make a harrowing journey at night down Voodoo Road. In the back seat is a young girl she is trying to save from harm. A masterpiece of ...

Four stories of noir told in the old-fashioned tradition of days gone by. Colored by atmosphere, mood, and story rather than expletives, brutality, and graphic violence, and peopled by real human beings rather than unredeemable low-lifes and drunken narrators, the Noir Shots series is a return to the more traditional noir of days past. Gathered here in Silhouettes are the first four entries in the Noir Shots series: Dangerous Crossing, One Good Thing, Where the Busses Don’t Run, and Not Dark Yet. Three long short stories and one novella which turn back the hands of time to another era in ...

Haunted by what happened in a leafy glade outside a small town in Indiana, a paroled man returns by train nine years later to discover who killed the girl of his youthful dreams, then framed him for her murder. A small town, a baseball hero and his sister, and a secret no one knows leads to a shattering conclusion in this atmospheric, old-fashioned Noir Shot entry set during the 1940s.

Halloween is growing near, and Matt's buddy Ray, already spooked by strange noises in the morgue, insists the old mansion down the street from Edna's is haunted. When Matt also sees a girl standing at the window of the abandoned old mansion, plans are made for a ghost hunt! With Stacy on her way into town for Halloween, bringing with her some very alluring costumes for her best friend LeAnn and herself, there is sure to be more than a little fun mixed in with the chills! Taking place after The Velvet Sea but before The Tender Shore, this is a fun holiday treat for fans of this unique series.

A WWII soldier returns to his small town in Upstate New York with no memory of his past. Someone is following him and he doesn't know why. Once he arrives at a home he can't remember, he discovers two very different women appear to have designs on him. Shadowed by a mysterious stranger, and romantically confused, he must make his way through the dark corridors in his mind and remember, before it's too late...

Traveling late at night on an abandoned Illinois backroad during a terrible storm, a man has a close brush with tragedy. Relief turns to fear when hours later, morning doesn't arrive. Trapped in an endless night he travels on these lonely stormy backroads recalling the betrayal which sent him cross-country, and wondering if the girl in the rain who saved him from a certain death was actually real...

The tender interlude in Monaco between Matt and Andrea alluded to in the epilog of The Dreamless Sea, is finally told in this beautiful and poignant ode to love, and the end of spring.