A Debt of Honor: Gerald Lane heads west to seek his fortune and claim the money owed his father by an unscrupulous former business partner. As might be expected, this is not as simple or straightforward as it might at first seem.Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many formulaic juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to...

She feels a magical pull at her heart. But will her stubborn destiny upend an empire?Ka-bes was one step away from the priesthood when a mistake cursed her life. Cast out and devastated, her world upends when she's forced by magic to protect a young girl with a secret…Sifa lives out her boring life herding goats and covering up her strange horns. But when poachers steal the herd and reveal her guardian's true identity, the girl follows the voice in her hear...

Dan, the Newsboy was originally entitled Dan, the Detective, and a first edition of Dan, the Detective is one of Alger's rarest. When it was reprinted, the title was changed to Dan, the Newsboy. Dan and his mother are poor. Dan valiantly struggles to make money by selling newspapers on the streets of New York City. After obtaining employment at a wholesale house, Dan discovers the bookkeeper attempting to steal money from the company. Then, he tracks down a six ye...

The Spirit of the Border is a historical novel published in 1906 by Zane Grey. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late 18th century. It features the exploits of Lew Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans and to the protection of nascent white settlements in that region. The story deals with the attempt by Moravian missionaries to Christianize Indians and how two brothers' lives ta...

A Map to the Greatest Treasure in the World.Tethan is the son of the chief of the Skybear Onei. When his father discovers a map to the greatest treasure in the world, Tethan tries to talk sense to him. The treasure is too far away in the lands of the Eternal Council, lands no one of their clan has ever visited, with dangers they do not understand.Gartan doesn't care about danger. He imagines the bards singing his name for years to come as the greatest Onei ...

Interplanetary Terrorism, Corporate Backstabbing, and Nanotech Zombies!Dorothea, decorated veteran and paroled war-criminal, hopes she escaped her past when she left Mars. She's got a new job using her old skills, but her first mission takes off on the wrong foot. In a zombie-infested station, every mistake can be your last.In this military sci-fi romp across the solar system, Watson Davis weaves a tale of intrigue and terror with guns and blasters blazing.Buy this ...

A simple hunter turned magical beast. Can he slay a demented wizard to free his people?Wallak finds joy in the snow, the solitude, and the hunt. But when a night on the town leaves his nephew missing, the man's peace turns into a panicked search. The hunter uses his tuned tracking skills to locate the boy but finds himself captured and transformed by dark magic…With a powerful collar keeping him and his kin enslaved, Wallak has no choice but to fight his mo...

An empire enslaved. A shaman harvested for magic. Can he break the chains to set his people free?Caldane isn't sure what he has left to live for. He's ritually drained of his magic, forced to perform despicable deeds to survive, and mourns being the last survivor of his tribe. But when one of his captors reveals Caldane's mother is still alive, he begins his plan to break the chains and free her.Outwitting his sadistic jailers, he's forced to take a few of his fellow slaves...

A rebellion rising. A land under siege. Can a conflicted priestess defeat an ancient, ruthless magic?Hanno's husband is dead. Filled with pain, the priestess and healer questions her faith in the almighty Eternal Council. When she unknowingly aids a wounded rebel, she's forced to choose between returning to her old life or taking up arms against the rulers she used to worship…Deep within the heart of the rebel ranks, Hanno witnesses the Council cut down the...

For his first novel, Zane Grey looked back at the extraordinary life of his ancestor Betty Zane—a heroine of the American Revolutionary War.Betty Zane lived her life on the frontier. Her family founded the settlement of Wheeler in West Virginia, which came under attack from British and Native American forces in 1782. With gunpowder running low, all hope looked lost. What happened next would secure Betty's place in the history books.An easy and pacy read, "Betty Zane" is a g...

Though Zane Grey's body of work in the Western genre reveals a prodigious imagination, many of his stories had a strong historical grounding, based in part on the lives and experiences of Grey's own ancestors. The Last Trail, the final entry in Grey's Ohio River Trilogy, expertly combines elements of romance and adventure in a gripping tale that pits protagonist Jonathan Zane against several nefarious rivals.

In this blazing new series from the bestselling Johnstones, the sole survivor of a bloody massacre turns his rage to bounty hunting—and a new Western legend is born . . .They call him Ghost. A hard man with a hard past, Garret “Ghost” McCoy will never forget the day his family was brutally attacked by vicious marauders. It forced him to grow up fast, get tough even faster, and sharpen every skill to survive—by gun, by knife, or by fist. A true loner and silent stal...