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Bannon's Law
by Lauran PaineJoshua Bannon, a crusty, individualistic old frontier doctor, is never too sparing with advice for his young friend, Sheriff Tom Cartland. "Any time an animal has a lot of brawn and a little brain," he tells Cartland, "it is going to be forceful, dim-witted, obnoxious and troublesome." The sheriff finds out just how applicable this law is to humans when a body of an unknown range rider is discovered just outside of town. The dead man's horse has run off, and there is nothing to identify the man with but his ivory-handled pistol and silver-mounted spurs, which look conspicuously out of place on the apparently ordinary cowboy. Examining the dead man further, the wily but unorthodox lawman discovers two more fascinating items: a moneybelt with six thousand dollars in cash, and a bullet hole in the cowboy's back. Cartland traces the runaway horse to the cabin of George Cannon, a tough but honest homesteader with three sons, each as burly and strong-willed as his father. Despite their initial frostiness and the sheriff's natural prejudice against squatters and settlers, the Cannons and Sheriff Cartland develop a relationship of mutual respect and admiration. The Cannons turn over to Tom a gold pocket watch that the dead cowboy had been carrying, but on the way back from their spread, Tom is ambushed and the watch is stolen. He is wounded in the attack, which the townspeople all assume to be the work of highwaymen, but which Tom and Doc Bannon correctly surmise to be that of men who are after the cash from the moneybelt. With help from the Cannons, the good doctor, and several of the more colorful townspeople, Sheriff Cartland manages to uncover the identity of the bushwackers, and sets a trap for them, using the six thousand dollars as bait. What follows is solid, fast-paced Old West action, interspersed with the constant wisecracking of old Doc Bannon, which makes this another irresistible Western yarn from Lauran Paine.
Bar-20 Days
by Clarence E. MulfordHopalong Cassidy and his fellow cow punchers on the Bar-Twenty ranch run into many adventures during the course of a season. After being shanghaied into forced labor at sea, Hopalong and his friends return to shore to fight Apaches, escape flash floods, and avenge the murder of a lawman.
The Bar-20 Three
by Clarence E. MulfordWhen Hoppy and Red hear that Johnny Nelson has been knocked over the head and robbed of a big chunk of cash over in Mesquite, they race to his aid--and are immediately framed for a bank robbery. Then the trouble really begins......
Barbecue and Blue Jeans (Boys In Blue Jeans Ser. #1)
by Brigitte Ann ThomasCaroline Faye Wright is a twenty-nine-year-old bank teller with abandonment issues, a stubborn will, and a soft spot for doing what people ask. After losing both of her grandparents in the span of a year, their family farm falls into the less-than-capable hands of her father. Caroline gives up graduate school to come back home and help her father with the farm.That was six years ago. Now, she splits her time between those chores and her job in a nearby town… not the fulfilling career she once dreamed of. So when her boyfriend of five years cheats on her, Caroline decides she is through—through giving everything to anyone in need when all she gets in return is crap. That is, until she meets Eliot James. He is sex on a stick, and she can’t help but fall. This cowboy is too good to be true. In traditional form, her self-depreciating, self-destructive ways get between her goals and what might be the best thing to ever happen in her life. If Caroline can’t get to the root of the problem and deal with the issues getting in her way, she may lose him forever. That is the last thing she wants.
Barbed Wire: Two Complete Novels
by Elmer KeltonIrishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers, and land hungry thugs.Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug Monahan. And neither side takes prisoners!At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A Bargain Struck
by Liz HarrisA marriage of necessity grows into a love worth fighting for in a historical romance offering a “vivid portrayal of 1880s mid-west America” (Daily Mail). In 1887 Wyoming, widower Connor Maguire advertises for a wife to raise his young daughter, work the homestead, and—he hopes—bear him a son. And on paper, Ellen O’Sullivan appears to be everything Connor needs in a wife. Although Connor tries his best to be as mannerly as possible under the circumstances, it soon becomes clear that Ellen may have been less than truthful about herself and her reasons for coming west—a fact that Connor considers a breach of their agreement he may not be able to forgive. But as their personal feelings blur the boundaries of their deal—and they bear the hardships of the frontier side-by-side—they begin to wonder if their marriage could be a far more intimate arrangement . . . “Engrossing. A thoroughly enjoyable read, full of romance and with enough treachery and intrigue to keep you rooting for Ellen until the last page.” —Historical Novels Review
Baron of Coyote River, The
by L. Ron HubbardExperience the Old West. Lance Gordon killed his father's murderer in a fair fight, but now he's got a price on his head and has been running from the law ever since. Cornered by men of the US Cavalry in Santos, Lance gets rescued by a mystery man who convinces him to join forces and go after a notorious cattle rustler up the infamous Coyote River. Even together the pair stands barely a chance of bringing the gang of thieves to account, much less dealing with the soldiers still hot on their trail. ALSO INCLUDES THE WESTERN STORY "REIGN OF THE GILA MONSTER""Heart-racing plot charges at the speed of thrumming hooves."--Library Journal* An International Book Awards Finalist
Barry: The Story of a Wolf Dog
by Thomas C. HinkleWhen Jim Williams saved the tiny gray pup from the river, he gained a dog for life. The rescued pup named Barry grew into a large dog bearing a striking resemblance to a timber wolf, so much so that the longhorns on the ranch would attack him. Year after year a wolf pack terrorized the cattle on the ranch and during a skirmish between the wolves and the cowhands, Barry was shot. Wounded, Barry disappeared into the wilderness. Now, with Jim in danger, Barry returns to his master for a final showdown with the wolf pack leader.
The Bartender's Tale (Two Medicine Country)
by Ivan DoigFrom a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son, rocked by a time of change. Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge of the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an "accident between the sheets" whose mother deserted them both years ago.The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom's past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty's life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone's vision but his own. As Rusty struggles to decipher the oddities of adult behavior and the mysteries build toward a reckoning, Ivan Doig wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.
The Bartender's Tale
by Ivan DoigFrom a great American storyteller, a one-of-a-kind father and his precocious son are rocked by a time of change. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine until the summer of 1960 when two new women enter their lives.
The Bartered Bride
by Elizabeth MansfieldLord Kittridge agreed to marry Cassandra Chivers for forty thousand pounds of her father's money. But is his new bride a crafty schemer behind her shy demeanor?
Bastion (Wild West Exodus)
by Craig GallantTucked deep within the rocky mountains of the old west lies a hidden stronghold. Protected by ice and rock among the lands of the warrior nation is a fortress known as the Acropolis. The men and women that call it home belong to an elite group known as the Holy Order of Man. They are a society as old as civilization itself, devoted to safeguarding mankind from the evils of the dark council and the horrors they bring. With the country destroying itself from within, a young man named Giovanni Varro has been called upon to join this epic fight. His journey to become a member of the Holy Ordr will be long and difficult with no guarantee of success.
Battle of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man #21)
by William W. JohnstoneUSA Today bestselling author: A Colorado cattleman wages all-out war on a gang of ruthless rustlers . . .The kind of man for whom God created the gun, Smoke Jensen stands as a force of will in the brutal, lawless west . . .Nothing will stand in his waySmoke Jensen has a good woman by his side. Now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer.But a cattle war has turned the landscape into a battleground, and a ruthless gang of rustlers is hot on Smoke's trail. The bullet-proof mountain man is determined to get what he wants—even if he has to blast every one of the dirty desperados back to hell.
Battleborn
by Claire Vaye Watkins<P>In each of these ten unforgettable stories, Claire Vaye Watkins writes her way fearlessly into the mythology of the American West, utterly reimagining it. Her characters orbit around the region's vast spaces, winning redemption despite - and often because of - the hardship and violence they endure. <P>The arrival of a foreigner transforms the exchange of eroticism and emotion at a prostitution ranch. <P>A prospecting hermit discovers the limits of his rugged individualism when he tries to rescue an abused teenager. <P> Decades after she led her best friend into a degrading encounter in a Vegas hotel room, a woman feels the aftershock. <P>Most bravely of all, Watkins takes on - and reinvents - her own troubled legacy in a story that emerges from the mayhem and destruction of Helter Skelter. <P>Arcing from the sweeping and sublime to the minute and personal, from Gold Rush to ghost town to desert to brothel, the collection echoes not only in its title but also in its fierce, undefeated spirit the motto of her home state. <P><b>Winner of the 2012 Story Prize <P>Recipient of the 2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award <P>A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" fiction writer of 2012</b>
Bay City Belle (In Old California #2)
by Shirley KennedyBefore the war, Belle Ainsworth led a life of pleasure and privilege in the deep South. Five years after losing her fiancé at the Battle of Gettysburg, she is still alone, with no prospects for marriage among the remaining men of her acquaintance. But out west, there are possibilities. And when Belle answers an ad for a mail-order bride and boards a train to San Francisco to meet wealthy restaurateur Robert Romano, it’s with the hope of at last making her dreams of family come true. When the train is robbed, Yancy McLeish, a disillusioned Union Army hero, rescues Belle from her attackers—and lays claim to her heart. But Belle has pledged her troth to Romano and intends to honor that commitment. It’s a decision she soon regrets, for her groom-to-be is nothing like his letters. As she plots a course to escape Romano, Belle prays that road can lead her back to the safety of Yancy’s arms, where she believes she was always destined to be…
Bayou Trackdown (Trailsman #329)
by Jon SharpeIn the marshy wilderness of Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Swamp, people are being killed by a monster that strikes without mercy, leaving behind little more than mangled flesh, blood, and bones. Now, Fargo finds himself hunting a creature straight out of a bad dream. And once he finds his quarry, the Trailsman is determined to put the nightmare to sleep once and for all…
Beans, Bourbon, and Blood (A Luke Jensen-Dewey Mckenzie Western #1)
by William W. Johnstone J.A. JohnstoneJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. HOMESTYLE JUSTICE WITH A SIDE OF SLAUGHTER.In this explosive new series, Western legend Luke Jensen teams up with chuckwagon cook Dewey &“Mac&” McKenzie to dish out a steaming plate of hot-blooded justice. But in a corrupt town like Hangman&’s Hill, revenge is a dish best served cold . . .BEANS, BOURBON, AND BLOOD: A RECIPE FOR DISASTER The sight of a rotting corpse hanging from a noose is enough to stop any man in his tracks—and Luke Jensen is no exception. Sure, he could just keep riding through. He&’s got a prisoner to deliver, after all. But when a group of men show up with another prisoner for another hanging, Luke can&’t turn his back—especially when the condemned man keeps swearing he&’s innocent. Right up to the moment he&’s hung by the neck till he&’s dead . . . Welcome to Hannigan&’s Hill, Wyoming. Better known as Hangman&’s Hill. Luke&’s pretty shaken up by what he&’s seen and decides to stay the night, get some rest and grab some grub. The town marshal agrees to lock up Luke&’s prisoner while Luke heads to a local saloon and restaurant called Mac&’s Place. The pub&’s owner—a former chuckwagon cook named Dewey &“Mac&” McKensie—serves up a bellyfull of chow and an earful of gossip. According to Mac, the whole stinking town is run by corrupt cattle baron Ezra Hannigan. Ezra owns practically everything. Including the town marshal. And anyone who gets in his way ends up swinging from a rope . . . Mac might be just an excellent cook. But he&’s got a ferocious appetite for justice—and a fearsome new friend in Luke Jensen. Together, they could end Hannigan&’s reign of terror. But when Hannigan calls in his hired guns, it&’ll be their necks on the line . . . or dancing from the end of a rope.
Beartooth Incident (Trailsman #332)
by Jon SharpeIn the frozen Beartooth Mountains, Fargo is rescued by a kindly wilderness woman named Mary Harper and her children. But when the brutal Cudgel Stein and his gang decide they want what the Harpers have, the Trailsman is going to give the snowbound sidewinders what they deserve…
Beats Me, Claude
by Joan Lowery NixonExciting escapades follow Shirley's attempts to make an apple pie for Claude until one day an orphan boy makes a pie that wins him Claude's favor.
Beautiful Dreamer
by Elizabeth LowellNevada's rugged, majestic beauty is a balm for the aches of Hope Gardener's heart. But the ranch she loves is dying of thirst, thanks to the worst drought the area has ever seen, Hope needs a miracle -- and one day it comes to the Valley of the Sun.A man out of time, Rio is an anachronism in the modern-day West, bringing with him a reputation for finding water in any desert. Hope has no choice but to trust this dark stranger who claims to make dreams real. And Rio, who has never had a dream of his own to follow, has found something in this extraordinary lady whose passion tempts him to defy his own rules.In the midst of adversity, two free spirits must now explore the most closely guarded corners of their hearts...as they search for a beautiful dream big enough to hold them both.
Beautiful Lawman: A Devil's Rock Novel
by Sophie Jordan“Sophie Jordan excels at writing sizzling hot reads!” —New York Times Bestselling Author Jill ShalvisFrom the wrong side of the tracks and with most of her family in jail or dead, Piper Walsh is used to everyone in town thinking the worst about her. It doesn’t seem to matter that she’s worked hard to build a good life for herself. So she isn’t surprised that when she comes into contact with Sweet Hill’s wildly irresistible, arrogant sheriff, Hale Walters, they’re instant adversaries. Piper has nothing in common with the town golden-boy-turned-lawman—and she refuses to be a notch on his bedpost.Despite rumors, Hale avoids fooling around with the women of Sweet Hill, many of whom are hoping to get him to the altar. But staying out of Piper’s path is proving near impossible. The infuriating troublemaker clearly has no respect for his badge. As she continues to push his buttons, it becomes clear to Hale that he must either arrest Piper—or claim her as his own.
Beautiful Sinner: A Devil's Rock Novel (Devil's Rock #5)
by Sophie JordanLocked in with the town bad boy . . .Most women would be scared, but Gabriella’s only worried about resisting Cruz Walsh, who’s even hotter than he was back in high school. Cruz was wrongly accused of the high-profile crime for which he was imprisoned; Gabriella’s desperate for the scoop that will get her career off the ground and get her out of Sweet Hill, where everyone still remembers her as “Flabby Gabby.” Being stuck in a supply closet with Cruz is the perfect opportunity to land an interview. What Bri doesn’t count on is Cruz taking “up-close and personal” to a whole new level.If there’s a silver lining to the hell Cruz went through, it’s that losing his freedom put everything in perspective. Maybe starting over someplace new would be easier, but after years locked up, Cruz values his family—and his true friends—more than ever. So he’s back home, facing the gossip, dodging reporters . . . and face-to-face with Gabriella Rossi. They’ve both changed: Bri wants a story and Cruz just wants her. Another thing he’s learned? Don’t let a good thing slip away.
Beauty and the Brit
by Lizbeth SelvigTough and self-reliant Rio Montoya has looked after her two siblings for most of their lives. But when a gang leader makes threats against her sister Bonnie, even Rio isn't prepared for the storm that could destroy her family. When their dreams are shattered in one dangerous moment, Rio seeks refuge for them all at a peaceful horse farm in the small town of Kennison Falls, Minnesota.Rio should feel safe in Kennison Falls, but her budding romance with the stable's owner, handsome British ex-pat David Pitts-Matherson, feels as dangerous as her past. The incredibly sexy David is as far from her type as any man could get, yet he tempts Rio in a way she never expected. But Rio knows that her time in Kennison Falls is limited, that her family is still in danger, and that she and David come from completely different worlds--a recipe for disaster.David has his own secrets, and even the sparks he feels flying with the fiery and beautiful Rio may not be enough for him to let her into his heart. Can the beauty and the Brit ever find common ground? Or will their pasts stand in the way of true love?
Beauty for Ashes
by Win BlevinsA tale of love and the American mountain man, from the author of So Wild a Dream After setting off from Pennsylvania to join the ranks of the fur trappers working the Rocky Mountains, Beauty for Ashes picks up where So Wild a Dream left off in this hit sequel from master Western writer Win Blevins. Sam Morgan, traveling with his coyote pup Coy, sets off on foot from the Sweetwater River of Wyoming to Fort Atkinson on the Missouri. Joining up with a brigade to trap beaver, Morgan encounters the warring Lakota and pesky bears, along with a whole lot of adventure along the way. When Morgan goes in search of the beautiful Crow woman Meadowlark, his attempt to win the hand of Meadowlark will lead to one full-hearted, perhaps foolhardy attempt to claim her as his wife. Beauty for Ashes captures the thrills and hardships of early American fur trappers, weaving a tight and compelling love story along the way. Part nostalgia, part reminder to live in the moment, Beauty for Ashes is one of the finer novels written on this oft-forgotten slice of greater Americana, and its exacting prose serves to carry the reader pleasantly toward the story's inevitable conclusion.
Un bebé y una boda (El forastero serie #2)
by Lorhainne EckhartDe la autora Bestselling de estos días, desde NYT y USA, Lorhainne Eckhart, llega como UN BEBÉ Y UNA BODA, en Búsqueda del Amor ~ La historia de enlace de Las Series de Extraños, Los eventos de ésta corta historia de 10,000+ se desarrollan entre el #1 romance del oeste EL NIÑO OLVIDADO y EL HÉROE CAÍDO. Casarse y tener un bebé, para Emily y Brad era perfecto, o eso pensaban hasta que una sorpresa inesperada amenaza con arruinar su día feliz.