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The first cattle drive of the season leaves Texas for Abilene, Kansas along the Chisholm Trail, but unforeseen terrors lay hidden in the natural beauty of the land. In the heart of Indian Territory lies the sleepy town of Duncan, a friendly respite from the dusty land. But something lurks in the untamed West - a powerful creature that hunts to satiate its horrifying hunger. The land will run red with blood, and only Karl Beck has a chance against this ancient evil.

The Caldwells have one goal in life: to be left alone. They’ve been living on the backwater planet of C’dar for years, smuggling and scavenging their way to a comfortable life on their homestead. But you know the saying about all good things - they come to an end. The civilization wasn’t content with falling apart the first time and has finally caught wind of the ol’ boys and girls on their little rock in the middle of nowhere.

In 1876 the seemingly impossible happened in San Antonio, Texas - Emmett Strong, a prodigy of a pistolero, accidentally shot his own young wife in a showdown gone awry. Five years later, death again visits Emmett's family, and now - want to or not - he's going to have to overcome his reluctance to draw his six-gun if he's to catch and bring to justice the crazed gunman who murdered his brother.

August, 1934. The Great Depression has turned the red clay of Georgia into dust and desperation. For Ray Stubbins, a good man with a back made of iron and a heart too soft for his own good, the world is shrinking. With a 47 dollar tax bill threatening to take the family land, Ray leaves his young wife, Lurene, and his watchful sister, Jessie, to take a dangerous logging job on Candletop Mountain.

A number of years ago, I heard some stories about ranch and Western life I thought were among the funniest anecdotes I had ever heard. It started a quest. Over a 10-year span, I interviewed 150 cowboys, ranchers, and others, mostly in Texas and Nebraska. The result is Cowboys, Ranchers, and Assorted Characters: True Tales from the New West. It's the best of the best anecdotes from those encounters.

After pursuing a cold-blooded murderer all the way to Nevada, Texas Ranger Emmett Strong is returning home to San Antonio - but not alone. He's found a girl he longs to marry. Finding someone to tie the knot for them is proving to be a challenge, however, owing to the fact that she's the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Along the way, there's a ruckus in El Paso's Wild Hog Saloon, and by noon the next day, folks are convinced it was Emmett and his compadres who robbed the saloon owner and beat him up..

The last thing Jeremy Staymour remembers is the crack of gunfire, the rush of pain, and the blinding darkness that follows. A drive-by shooting leaves him lying unconscious, his life hanging by a thread. Now, no one knows if he’ll ever wake up, or if he does, what kind of life will await him.

Frank Hinkle is thrilled when he is unexpectedly released from prison, but after a few days in his hometown, he's going to wish he had stayed safely behind bars. Things have changed in Rook Mountain, Tennessee, since Frank went away. His brother Jake has been missing for seven years, a fact no one bothered to share with Frank. His fun-loving buddy Will is now a somber man known for his violent enforcement of the town's bizarre new laws.

Ship of Fools is the fourth book in The Tales of Dan Coast series and begins where Coasts of Christmas Past left off. Find out how Dan deals with the death of a young friend while looking into the disappearance of a new friend's sister. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they fumble their way through a new mystery.

Their home is lost to them and their way of life is on the line, the Caldwells are scattered to the endless ocean for a way to fix the world they treasured. The daughter, the father, and the grandfather have no choice but to fight for everything they once held dear. Kindle, the Captain of Driftwood, is forced to diligently fix the mess she made and finds the truth behind the Flame. Appetite, lost in his anger, trudges the darkness of his own hunger as a predator yearning for only his den. And Drifter, ever older, holds their family together, but for how long?

Tiny yet prospering Benficklin, Texas, wants a clean, respectable town marshal to safeguard their pristine community from the kind of riffraff that turned neighboring Santa Angela into a raucous string of blood-spattered saloons and bawdy sporting houses. Former Texas Ranger Emmett Strong seems to be just the man Benficklin’s town fathers are looking for. Reputations aside, Benficklin - not Santa Angela - is the town with the next scandal on its hands, when the ravaged body of a young, murdered Mexican girl is found lying in the middle of Main Street.

Mystery writer Allen Crane hasn't written a single word in over three years - not since the death of his wife. His publisher suggests a two-week stay in York Beach, Maine. Maybe that's just what Allen needs to snap out of his writer's block and return to the top of the best seller's list. hinking his publisher is probably right, Allen packs up, grabs his dog, Frankie, and heads east. It doesn't take long at all for Allen to discover that the sleepy little town of York Beach might not be so sleepy after all.

Follow the journey of Newcomb Barrett, as he pioneers through his trials of his parent's divorce and father's death. And how a girl, a pair of English Setter hunting dogs, and an old man help him regain meaning in his life. An audiobook for the upland hunter, the traveler, and romantic. Don't miss out on an audiobook of inspiration and soul searching through life's great adventures.

Talk about seeing the sunny side of things: when Thomas is turned into a vampire, he sees the terrifying transformation as a gift from God. Being a vampire is not a death sentence but a second chance at life for him, and he sets off to do God's work in his new role. Too bad there are older vampires who do see their transformation as a curse and resent God. A battle ensues, pitting vampire against vampire and threatening the existence of everyone.

During the winter and spring of 1990, three Spokane area women were found dead, their bodies dumped along the Spokane River.

Get the first three James Beamer thrillers in this box set. Includes: Chasing Fireflies, Babylon Girl, and Facing Hell. In Chasing Fireflies, homicide cop Michael Callahan must catch a serial killer who is hunting the streets for “fireflies” to send home before God cleanses the world. In Babylon Girl, when dreams of the serial killer Murmur ended, Michael buried those memories along with the secrets from his past. In Facing Hell, the end times are here.

George Alwood III is a spoiled and rich young man who heads west to become a mountain man in 1825. Taken under wing by two experienced old mountain men, George Alwood the third becomes Bear Killer the mountain man. After a short visit with Shoshoni Indians, Bear Killer finds himself with an unwanted wife and though he resist's, he eventually learns to love her. A cold and hard winter in the mountains brings him closer to his bride, as he learns to live as a mountain man, and just before spring she informs him a child will soon come.

When Hamilton tires of his deputy sheriff job he decides to try ranching, where the grass grows green and no one is shooting at him. His life is upset when the Stanton family arrive from Texas with their cattle, cowboys, feudal ways, and their beautiful daughter, Wanda. When the "Children's Blizzard" overtakes the country in 1888, the Texans and Hamilton are thrown together for mutual survival. What ensues includes adventure, generosity, misunderstanding, suffering, survival, a bit of humor, and some romance.

Buck lost his wife to pneumonia and his father to murder, within a few short months of each other. When he decides to crawl out of his mourning, he stops by to visit his friend, Dr. Elliott Larkin, and is introduced to Callie Mae Weathers and her friend, Lilac Indigo Preston. Buck had no idea his life would change so drastically within four short days! When he hires the Snow Detective Agency to help find his father's killer, Reed and Deacon Snow uncover information that could change all their lives.

During the day, Dr. Frankenstein works innocently in his laboratory to contribute his fair share of knowledge to society. But at night, he works endlessly in his secret laboratory located in the cellar with his cousin (Martin), perfecting Abellio, a hideous monster pieced together by dead bodies. Dr. Frankenstein has grown obsessed with studying information on the Neuralink Corporation, which is a neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk and others, developing implantable brain - machine interfaces (BMIs).