Tall, serious faced Mitt Stone runs away from the ranch and takes a freighting job from Uvalde to the West. He is determined to make money and meet up with his buddy Bob Guthrie on the road. At Fort Davis he meets Lydia Lorrain but Mitt fails the mother's test.He and Bob find a niche: buying mules cheap and selling them to the stage and freight line, but the Civil War has destroyed currency and the draft looms. Mitt's brother Sam converts their paper money to gold. With their pal M...

Mitt Stone would never again see his four brothers. He stares at a telegram telling him that the oldest, Sam, had been fatally shot. He meets the remaining three in San Antonio. One is well off, one is a hot head with a gun, and one is a devout Christian determined to save his brothers. None has a clue where to start.The year is 1890.Their journey, by train and two-horse surrey, to Junction City, Texas, brings them into contact with William J. Burns, a Secret Service agent,...

LITTLE STONE MOUNTAINBetrayed in love twenty-seven years earlier Hailey (Hail) Stone is satisfied to indulge his hobbies, live the good life and enjoy the company of his current friend Mattie. At age forty-eight his life is set, his retirement vested, and his comfort complete. No other soul of the old Stone family still lives. When he goes, it's the end of the line.As Hail reminisces about a family story of pre-civil war gold coins hidden on the old ranch south of Uvalde, Tex...

PHANTOM HERDAlex Mentrier is 18 when he leaves the Concho. He knows only that he was born to a Mexican woman in Castroville who claimed that his father was French. He intends to find out.His first attempt at adulthood placed him with thieves. He has not fully overcome the tendency. A man in the Castro Colony claims Alex is his son and suggests that they drive a herd of unbranded wild cattle to the Kansas market. They lack six essentials: cattle, horses, cowboys, equipment, ex...

Bob Guthrie, a successful trail driver, first appears in Denzel Holmes' Mitt Stone series of novels as Mitt's chief accomplice. Matt Altmann enters manhood in Holmes' epic novel Texas Victory as the son of Prince Carl. The two meet on the West Texas Concho River.Col. Mackenzie is poised to put an end to the threat from free roaming Comanche using Fort Concho as a hub. Despite their best efforts Matt and Bob find themselves embroiled in the errupting conflict.Matt is determi...

Curly Smith was a coward when he fled the Civil War. After his encounter with Mitt Stone on the distant Rio Grande there is not a yellow bone in his body. He returns to become a deputy sheriff. His arrest of murderer Angel Ranigan makes him a hero but touches off a wave of violence like no other. Old South sympathizers try to take Texas back in time. Curly, son of a plantation owner,is caught in the middle.A chance meeting with his old friend Mitt Stone gives him the resolve needed...

When the spontaneous nature of Mitt Stone takes hold nothing can stop him. Up to now he had known his enemy and carried forth with amazing success. Friends made it possible. Did he still have them? This time he will enter a world he does not understand.A Texas Ranger who hates Mitt gives him good advice. Good, if he intends to pursue a phantom, the vicious killer of of his six-year-old niece. His earlier nature takes over. When Bob Guthrie, Gilberto Saliz, and M.L. Carter join Mitt...

The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st CenturyYoung Matt Bodine and Sam Two Wolves became blood brothers on the day the rancher's son saved the half breed's life, forging a bond no one could ever break. As years passed, a legend grew of the half breed and the white man who rode together—and when the situation demands, kill together.In Arizona Territory, you can't keep trouble from coming, but when it does, you don't have to offer it a chair. And trouble al...

THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURYIn his authentic, powerfully told tales of the American frontier, William W. Johnstone has defined the Western hero and established an action-packed series that ranks among the bestselling in print. In this rugged new novel, Johnstone sets his sights on the one place that was too wild even for the Wild West . . .No Man’s LandKansas doesn’t want it. Neither does Texas. The 35-mile wide s...

Alone in the big city, a fierce young frontierswoman must outsmart a dangerous con man before she can stake her claim to the family fortune.Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett has never been far from her Tennessee home—until she makes the long trek to Philadelphia to collect her inheritance. In the wilderness Echo can take care of herself as well as any man, but she never imagined the challenge that awaits: a crooked city lawyer who intends to take advantage of her by an...

In The Sackett Brand, Louis L’Amour spins the story of a courageous man who must face overwhelming odds to track down a killer.Tell Sackett and his bride, Ange, came to Arizona to build a home and start a family. But on Black Mesa, something goes terribly wrong. Tell is ambushed and badly injured. When he finally manages to drag himself back to where he left Ange, she is gone. Desperate, cold, hungry, and with nothing to defend himself, Tell is stalked lik...

Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in this heart-stopping thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais.Elvis Cole and Joe Pike keep their promises. Even if it could get them killed...Elvis Cole is hired to find a woman who’s disappeared, a seemingly ordinary case, until he learns the missing woman is an explosives expert and worked f...