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Pre-release pricing! Regularly $7.99! MABEN The man who called himself John Parker never actually admitted that his real name was Frank Maben. And old Al Maben, the only one who would have known for sure, had been shot from the brush by an unknown killer as he sat on his front porch in his rocking chair, perhaps thinking about his dead wife and a son he hadn’t seen since before the Civil War. The local ranchers and rustlers seemed convinced that the tall two-gun stranger was in fact old Al Maben’s long-lost son. When they weren’t too busy fighting among themselves, they spent their ...

Pre-release pricing. Limited time only! Regularly $7.99. BRANDON’S LAW Brandon’s law was simple. Leave him alone. But Ram Salter’s men couldn’t leave him alone. They had orders from their boss to run him out of the country or kill him. That should have been easy. There were enough of them to get the job done. But which one of them would he kill first when they went for their guns? And how many of them would he kill before they got him? There was only one way to find out. WARNING: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old ...

On Sale for a Limited Time!! Regularly $7.99. THE LONG TRAIL The long trail means death in the Old West. But it’s a long and dangerous trail that Ben Russell must follow in his search for the men who murdered his father. Then it’s that other long trail for the killers when they go down before his blazing gun—the long trail to hell. Van Holt’s hellbound gunslingers always send the bad guys where they belong. It just isn’t safe for them anywhere in the Old West anymore. Of course, the gunsters and punksters of our own time will feel a lot safer when the government disarms their ...

On Sale for a Limited Time!! Regularly $7.99. DEATH IN BLACK HOLSTERS They said Lorn Chambers packed death in his black holsters. But Chambers was a relic from the past, the last of the great gunfighters. All the others were dead or had hung up their guns, trying to change with the times. Chambers turned his back on the future and rode off into the western wasteland, looking for what was left of the past. What he found was some vicious killers from his own past. They had robbed and murdered his parents years before and planned to kill Chambers before he could kill them. Warning: Reading a ...

Pre-release pricing for a limited time! Regularly $7.99 DEAD MAN RIDING In this Eastwoodish western, no one in that troubled part of Texas had ever heard of anyone named Fanton, but that was the name prodigal brother Hawk Spradlin whispered just before he pulled his gun on a quiet, grim stranger and got himself killed. It happened one evening just before dark in Hoot Spradlin’s dugout store and saloon. The skinflint rancher was saving his coal oil until full darkness forced him to light a lamp, and he could not see the stranger clearly. But he got the drop on the tall man from behind with...

On Sale for a Limited Time! Normally $7.99. The Gundowners While Jeff Mitton is away fighting in the War Between the States, his sister Lettie disappears. When he returns home, his mother makes him promise to find her. When Jeff is bushwhacked while looking for Lettie, he is befriended by a secretive gunfighter named Steve KIbben, who is hunting some men who killed his sister. Jeff doesn’t know they are searching for the same dangerous men. Men, and beautiful women, who will stop at nothing to stay out of the clutches of the Federal agents pursuing them for spying for the South. More ...

On Sale for a limited time! Regularly $6.99. Shoot to Kill Mark Reston had never set out to be a killer. But there were those who just wouldn’t have it any other way. And now there were five more men that he had to kill. They should have left him alone or made sure he was dead the first time. He was tired of being used for a target. He hadn’t decided what to do about the beautiful young woman who had been given a very difficult choice by the outlaws. If she didn’t kill Reston, the man who had saved her life, they would kill her. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A ...

Limited time sale pricing. Normally $7.99 WILD COUNTRY Jeff Pickett didn’t even have enough money to buy himself a good warm winter coat when the dying gambler rode up to his campfire with an offer he couldn’t afford to refuse. The $10,000 in the wounded man’s saddlebags was his. And all he had to do to keep it was make sure the killers on the gambler’s trail didn’t get their hands on it. So Jeff Pickett rode off alone into wild country—Apache country—with $10,000 in his saddlebags and a dozen greedy outlaws on his trail. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A ...

On Sale Now! Regularly $6.99! Save 63%! Wild Desert Rose In the fall of 1874, a beautiful half-breed Indian girl named Rose Wilder shoots the most powerful man of a small town accidentally in a quarrel. Then to escape the lust and rage of the sheriff and his deputy, both related to the dead man, she sets out alone on a perilous journey that takes her to wild Texas towns and on into even wilder desert country roamed by the wildest men of the wildest time in America. Stalked by lawmen and outlaws, she meets famous gunfighters and a strange Indian who wants her to go away with him into the ...

Pre-release pricing! Regular price will be $7.99! REBEL WITH A GUN He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right. So he headed for Texas with a disreputable old snake oil peddler and a beautiful blonde with a jealous husband and a dangerous secret that could get them all killed. Even though he had ridden with Quantrill and Bloody Bill, he was not like the others. Many of them were not the only bushwhackers who flourished during the war. Men ...

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On Sale Now! Limited time only! Regularly $7.99. THE LAST OF THE FIGHTING FARRELLS The Haggan brothers were all cocky, mean bastards. They felt they were above the law and that anyone who got in their way or crossed them, would pay. They could not even remember when they had not been feuding with the Farrells, only that their Pa had killed old Matt Farrell over some cattle their Pa had rustled from him. There had been an uneasy truce for many years, but the Haggan boys were resstless and wanted to get things going again. They ambushed Luke’s oldest brother, Matt and then killed the other ...

On Sale for a Limited Time! Regularly $7.99. THE BOUNTY HUNTERS His name was Dan Britton, but he used other names—Ben Travis and Rex Farley among them—because both lawmen and outlaws hunted him for the bounty Sam Grayson had put on his head to get even with Britton for killing his brother. Grayson was himself an outlaw and the leader of other outlaws who had joined the hunt for Britton. All of them had prices on their heads. Britton finally decided to collect some bounties himself. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s Law ...

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Now on sale for a limited time! Normally priced at $7.99. THE MEN FROM MISSOURI Dan got to his feet. “Tell me one thing before I go. If you didn’t steal my money, how did Swope get hold of my new carpetbag? He was carryin’ it into your house when I rode out of town that day.” “Why don’t you ask him when he gets back?” “I intend to,” Dan said. “It’s about time me and him had it out.” He turned to find Hump Bagley at the door, making angry growling noises. Dan smiled and drew his gun. “You can have her. You and Swope can fight over her. Now get the hell out of my way...

Special pre-release pricing! Regularly $7.99! THE HELL RIDERS The people of that remote desert town called him Gatten, but that was not his real name. Those who knew his real name never told anyone. And if they knew, they never told anyone why he had come so far or waited so long to right some old wrongs and give the wrongdoers the dose of lead they needed. The two people who seemed the most worried about Gatten’s intentions were crippled old Colonel Easton and the young woman who claimed to be his wife. After Gatten shot their black cook off the balcony outside the window of his hotel ...

On Sale! Regularly $7.99. CURLY BILL AND RINGO Why did the legendary gunfighter, Ringo, come to Boot Hill? Rumors and innuendo ignite the small frontier town. Did the wealthy rancher, Willy Gibson, hire him to combat the cattle rustlers? Was he here to even up some old grudges? Or to hunt down the men who tried to kill him? Miss Sarah, the most beautiful woman in town, seemed in a much different mood after he checked in at the hotel where she worked. Curly Bill knew who he was, or thought he should, since they rode together for a time. Curly also remembered that around Ringo, you always ...

On sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. THE HELLBOUND MAN Jim Benton had come to think of himself as the hellbound man because he seemed to be headed in that direction. But there were some interesting stops along the way. One such stop was a lawless little town called Rustler's Roost in honor of some charming young men who seemed to think other men's cattle, horses and women were theirs for the taking. But Benton had them worried. He didn't seem afraid of them and when somebody shot at him he shot back – with alarming accuracy. They were afraid somebody had sent for him to put a stop...

On Sale for a limited time! Normally priced at $7.99! THE SIX-GUNNER The three seedy outlaws followed Decker’s trail through the rocky, cactus-spiked hills to a lone cottonwood on the rim of a steep-sided ravine. They found a note on the trunk of the cottonwood. “You claim you can read a little, Lick,” Snot Wagner said to his brother. “See what it says.” Lick Wagner rode close enough to reach the note from the saddle. He grinned as he read it. “It says, ‘Foller me, boys. I went thataway.’ There’s a arrow on it that was pointin’ straight toward that ravine before I got it...

On Sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. RIDING FOR REVENGE Another wandering tale of revenge in the Old West begins with the brutal murder of Frank and Pearl Ryden and the wounding of their only son on the lonely Kansas prairie. They had come west after the Civil War looking for peace and safety and a distant farm a mysterious stranger had sold them a deed to. Another mysterious stranger—or was it the same one?—saved young Jim Ryden’s life and taught him how to shoot as well as helped him track the killers all over the West—when he wasn’t too busy making war on a renegade ...