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The ruinous love trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, they find something elusive--the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers. From small-town West Virginia to upscale California, and from downtown Boston to rural Texas, the two hunters collide in an annual game of blood and suffering, one that pits them against the most dangerous monsters in the country....
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820L
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Lance Kilkenny is believed to be the fastest gun in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek, a district dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, each claiming the hole for himself. Beautiful Nita Riordan owns the local saloon, and between her charms and the...
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"Hewey Calloway, one of the best-loved cowboys in all of Western fiction, returns in this novel of his younger years as he and his beloved brother Walter leave the family farm in 1889 to find work in the West Texas cow country. The brothers are polar opposites. Walter pines for a sedate life as a farmer, with wife and children; Hewey is a fiddle-footed cowboy content to work at six bits--75 cents--a day on the Pecos River ranch owned by the penny-pinching...
4) Sackett
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910L
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English
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William Tell Sackett had followed a different path from his younger brothers, but his name, like theirs, was spoken with respect and just a little fear. Where Orrin had brought law and order from New Mexico to the plains of Montana, backed up by the gunfighting talents of his brother Tye, Tell Sackett's destiny drew him to Texas after he had to kill a man. There, in the high, lonesome country, he came upon a vein of pure gold. All he'd wanted was...
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"It starts with an unusual request: 'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare...
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"It's 1852. The wounds of the Mexican War are healing. Regis Royle, co-owner of a steamship fleet, has made it out alive, relatively unscarred and with enough profit and foolhardy ambition to envision a new life in south Texas. With the help of his crack-shot kid brother Shepley, his glad-handing riverboat partner Cormac Delany, and his old friend, raw-edged former Texas Ranger Jarvis 'Bone' McGraw, Regis is laying claim to the prime jewel in a magnificent...
7) Amelia
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English
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"Amelia Howard cherishes her desert country. The dazzling colors, white heat, and rough sensuality of west Texas stir her very soul. But there's a serpent in her paradise: King Culhane. A towering sunburned cowboy with silver eyes that miss nothing, he's a man she's come to despise--no matter how much she had worshipped him when she was fourteen. As her father pushes her to secure a marriage proposal from King's mild-mannered brother in order to marry...
8) Kingdom come
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"Like a murderous plague, a band of cutthroats and criminals, led by prison escapees from New Mexico, rages through West Texas. They're slaughtering everyone in their path: men, women and children. They struck at Saragosa. Now they've taken over the town of Boracho. The Dallas newspapers call them the Kingdom Come Gang. In Chugwater, Wyoming, Duff [MacCallister] calls them his enemy. Because one of their victims was family. Riding to Texas, Duff gathers...
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"Luke Davenport has been fighting all his life--for respect, for country, and for those unable to fight for themselves. But now that his Horsemen brothers are domesticated, he's left alone to battle the wildness within. When an opportunity arises to take a job on his own, tracking down a group of rustlers, he jumps at the chance. Damaris Baxter has mastered the art of invisibility. Plain and quiet, she hides in books and needlework, content to be...
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The Good Old Boys: "Hewey Calloway has a problem. He wants to be a footloose cowboy, endlessly wandering the land on horseback, but the open range of his childhood is slowly disappearing. Land is being parceled out, barbed-wire fences are springing up all over, and cars are replacing the horse as a mode of transportation. Swimming against the tide of 'progress,' Hewey begins to understand that the time of the cowboy is over, that the life he dreams...
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Traveling with a new name and a new face, young bank robber, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Tired of shooting, riding, and fighting, all he wants now is to settle down on the ranch in Arizona for a nice, peaceful life. But the Texas Rangers are on his tail in a ride for vengeance, daring Wade to one last fight for his dream--and...
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"Ex-cavalry officer Matthew Hanger leads a band of mercenaries who defend the innocent, but when one of them nearly dies, they seek out help from Dr. Josephine Burkett. When Josephine's brother is abducted and she is caught in the crossfire, Matthew may have to sacrifice everything to save her" -- Provided by publisher.
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"Members of Hanger's Horsemen Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago. After failing at love, Katherine Palmer dedicated her life to caring for children, teaming up with Eliza Southerland to start Harmony House. From mixed ancestry,...
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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Hewey Calloway is heading north to Colorado, on a horse drive for an old friend, Alvin Lawdermilk, when he gets word that one of his hired hands is planning to rob him. After the plot is foiled, the fugitive horsehand is on the run and leaving bodies in his wake. Deputized to help bring the criminal to justice, Hewey is bestowed with a weight of responsibility that he's long avoided. Never known for his skill--or lack thereof--with a pistol, he can...
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Series
Firestick western volume 3
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's Marshal Elwood "Firestick" McQueen's responsibility to keep the peace in the West Texas town of Buffalo Peak. But when an old friend, "Rip" Ripley, comes to town, nothing is going to be peaceful. Rip has joined a gang of cutthroats and is planning on robbing the town bank.
17) Fugitive's trail
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A teenage fugitive, Melvin Parmlee flees Texas to escape a charge of murder after killing a man for shooting his dog, following a twisted trail of adventure, revenge, hardship, and danger as he grows from boy to man.
19) Lone Star legacy
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Forever Texas novel volume 2
Language
English
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"South Texas, 1854. Regis Royle is determined to turn eighteen thousand acres of raw prairie into the greatest cattle ranch in the world. But he can't do it alone. The region is wilder than a herd of mustangs--and crawling with rustlers. Teaming up with the Cattlemen's Justice Consortium, Regis hopes to stop the rustling and start laying tracks for a new railway. Problem is, the cattlemen--including Jarvis 'Bone' McGraw, Regis's own ranch manager--can't...
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Series
Call of duty volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Bella Jordan is assigned to investigate a series of murders in West Texas that are linked to the Spider Rock Treasure.