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First Book of the Smash top 100 Old West Series Set in a panorama of the American West as its portrait is first being painted, The Platte River Waltz is the initial stroke in the unfolding of Josh Bonner’s tale. In 1848, only seventeen years old, on the Oregon Trail and suddenly orphaned, Josh begins a journey through the unsettled frontier of a wild continent. Just making first acquaintance with manhood, he quickly finds his future linked to Elizabeth Hampton, a coquette from his old hometown. Together they resolve to venture into an uncertain and dangerous future. Accompanied by Jubilee...

We all have bloody thoughtsFor twelve years on the streets as a sheriff’s deputy, Dean Talley dreamed of becoming a homicide investigator. Four years ago his dedication to the job paid off. Since moving the badge from his shirt to his belt, the dream has become a grim reality of bearing witness to the horrors one person can inflict upon another. The cruelty is wearing him down. The cynicism has turned him into a cop just going through the motions. His commanding officers and fellow investigators can sense the impending wreck. No one wants to be around when he finally flares out. Talley ...

Volume Two of a stirring adventure The Growler Brigade is the SECOND book in The Platte River Waltz series.Together the two volumes take the reader on a journey with the intrepid souls who packed up their lives and walked across a hostile continent to a new life. The first volume is Orphans in the Storm. The third installment "Hangtown", is also available exclusively on Amazon Seventeen-year old Josh Bonner, at the very outset of the journey, is orphaned during an outbreak of cholera. The cholera has also killed off the Hampton family with the exception of their daughter Elizabeth. Rather ...

A tsunami of murder on the Gold CoastMurder on a college campus is only the first in a series of homicides circling Dean Talley, a cop with his own version of criminal justice. Set against the Gold Coast of southern California, Dean and Laura Talley continue their carnage against evil introduced in ‘Deadly Talley’. They balance resolving the campus murder while diverting attention from their own court of no appeal. A hard-boiled tribute to the pulp writers of the 1930’s, ‘Dean’s List’ jolts you from the first scene and never lets go.

It is a time period as vast as the desert and as relevant as our world today. It is the time between the Louisiana Purchase and the modern age. A place that held death, destruction, love, desire and greed. A time of man’s bravery and fears. A place where a man needed every ounce of his strength to survive. A barbaric time. A better time. It is a place we call the Old West. This is an exciting adventure in that dangerous, yet dramatic and exciting place. Josh Bonner and Zack Hammel arrive in the transient town of San Francisco. Soon they are dragged into action and, at the urging of ...

The Bonner Saga continues. Compelling historical drama in the California gold rush Volume Three in the series Upon arriving in California, Josh and Elizabeth Bonner find a land in chaos. Gold has been discovered in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and the whole territory is awash with fortune hunters. The coastal settlements have been abandoned. Law and order has succumbed to gold fever. What little the Bonners possess is on two carts. Winter is coming and they need shelter and supplies. Old friends who have established a bakery tell them of a derelict ship where they can perhaps salvage ...

A tsunami of murder on the Gold Coast Murder on a college campus is only the first in a series of homicides circling Dean Talley, a cop with his own version of criminal justice. Set against the Gold Coast of southern California, Dean and Laura Talley continue their carnage against evil introduced in ‘Deadly Talley’. They balance resolving the campus murder while diverting attention from their own court of no appeal. A hard-boiled tribute to the pulp writers of the 1930’s, ‘Dean’s List’ jolts you from the first scene and never lets go.

Mountain men honor a debt...it will probably cost them their lives Claude and his two friends have wintered with their adoptive Crow clan. They can't forget their companions massacred by the marauding Piegan Blackfeet. The thought of their remains scattered where they fell haunts them. They vow to return and bury the bodies and to avenge their murders. What they find, what they experience, will drive them to the edge of madness.

A savage frontier beckons The Regulators Owen Ripley and his crew of Civil War veterans are unwilling to return to their civilian lives. Instead they elect to make their fortunes fighting the lawless men plaguing the Old West as it extends the frontier. It's a dangerous job, but Ripley and company are well equipped with carefully cultivated skills and the strong sense of fair play necessary to maintain the sanctity of western expansion. This action-packed debut series follows Ripley's crew as they are contracted by the Union Pacific Railroad to protect their passengers on the way to the ...

Death, destruction, love and greed against the background of a city in flames in the old west As San Francisco burns, Josh Bonner embarks on a rescue mission. Little does he know he will uncover a web of human trafficking, gang wars, and a reassembling of the Vigilance Committee. His wife takes up the cause while an old enemy plots vengeance. Book Six in the Bonner Saga is a collection of Western Adventures Boomtown Justice is the newest release Incident at Blue Lead Creek: Bonner has a stake in several gold claims. He transports the gold back to San Francisco. Bandits have another ...

The latest western novel from Ken Consaul. This is high-octane action in the old west! Filled with action, adventure, intrigue and a huge dose of GOLD… Prepare yourself for California during the gold rush, It’s mid-Nineteenth Century and the living is rough and dangerous. A lot of men have come to the promised land for gold but the competition, the frenzy of dreams mixed with greed results, as is often the case when it comes to riches, in somebody gets dead pretty quick. Claims get jumped, gold carriers murdered, and if that’s not enough, the weather can take you down. What you will ...

The mountains never forgive... and neither does a mountain man.Readers first met Claude Delacroix as the wagon train scout in the best-selling Platte River Waltz series. In this prequel installment readers find Claude hiding face down in the mud of a freezing river as a war party who just wiped out a camp of trappers searches for more victims. After the hostiles give up, Delacroix bands with three other survivors. Salvaging what they can from the lost camp they flee the hostiles, making for a village of friendly Crow Indians. Eluding one clan of hostiles they almost wander into the clutches...