A quiet stream under the Comanche moon … leaping savages … knives flashing in the firelight … brutal, shameful death …Ripped from the bosom of their slain parents and carried off by the raiding Comanches, Jed Thompson and his sister can never forget that hellish night under the glare of the Comanche moon, seared into their memories forever. Years later, Golden Hawk now, his vengeance slaked, pursued relentlessly by his past Comanche brothers, Jed is driven by only one purpose: to re...

The Craft of Fiction contains the distilled wisdom and unique insights of a prolific author and talented English professor—that teaches the craft and craftsmanship of writing fiction. Adopted by many colleges and universities, it is a succinct, seminal work. Written in a down-to-earth, candid style, William C. Knott provides pragmatic advice, insights, and encouragement for the aspiring writer. The book consists of three parts. In the first part, “The World of Fiction,” ...

Golden Hawk hires out to lead a band of tenderfeet through a maze of mountains and dead-end gullies ruled by the proud Blackfoot nation. To complicate matters, the great Blackfoot warrior chief Black Feather has vowed to take Golden Hawk's scalp. Further bloodying the waters is a raging tribal war in which Golden Hawk has to take sides and take lives, while a mountain man named Elias Hogwood proves a white man can be as savage as a redskin and twice as treacherous.

Wolf Caulder has tried to make peace with his past. Having traveled the trail of the gun to avenge his parent's death, Caulder seeks new territory to leave his history behind. Then, as he rides toward the ranch a shot comes his way. Wolf ducks the shot thinking, "so this is the way it is going to be...more guns, more killing."What he doesn't realize is the enemies ahead are a torturing murderer and a snake of a man straight from hell...only one of the three will survive, and Wolf intends t...

Golden Hawk had hunted many things in the vast Western wilderness. Wild game. Golden treasure. Savage enemies. But now he was on his toughest, grimmest hunt. His beautiful sister Annabelle had been kidnapped by a Comanche band, and Hawk knew all too well what was being done to her. Even more maddening was his discovery that she was being passed from hand to hand as he pursued her abductors. The Comanches, the Blackfoot, and then a mammoth mountain man named Gar Trimm all in turn took posse...

Wolf Caulder is driven by childhood memories too terrible to forget, and by the words of Diego his Spanish rescuer. With his remaining eye Caulder sees frontier justice more keenly than many, and enforces it vengefully with his Colt revolver. The vengeance trail takes him in pursuit of a ruthless gang of train robbers who kill their victims in cold blood. Wolf is on the trail of the ringleader to exact his own brand of justice, and to free a lady driven by a similar revenge. His quest may ...

Born to whites, but raised by the Comanches, Golden Hawk had a single-minded mission to rescue his golden-haired sister Annabelle from savage captivity and sexual enslavement. But now Golden Hawk was at the crossroads, faced by cruel choices. A wagon train he had to save from sure death was headed by a cotton-mouthed preacher he hated. The Indians he had to battle were led by a warrior chief he had to respect. And the beautiful Indian Singing Wind and the gorgeous auburn-haired Alice Gentr...

Hawk saved the Quaker wagon train from a foul fur trader named Bannister and the savage Blackfoot band that Bannister armed and egged on. Hawk even taught the peaceful Quaker men to fight to get back their women and children. But he couldn't stop Bannister from heading across the Rockies with a beautiful young woman worth her weight in gold in the Frisco white slave market.Hawk and his Nez Percé ally Tames Horses had to make it through the mountains in time to stop that sale  and l...

As Hawk watched the Blackfoot warriors attack their Bannock Indian enemies, he was shocked at what he saw. The Blackfoot were attacking not in the helter-skelter Indian manner, but with an organized military precision that made them the most powerful and irresistible fighting force in the West.Then Hawk saw the reason why. Mounted on a horse beside the Blackfoot chief Spotted Pony was a white man with a cavalry saber raised high in the air to order the Blackfoot charge.It was...

TWO NAMES—ONE MANHis parents gave him the name Jed Thompson. But the Comanches who killed his parents and took him into their tribe as a boy gave him a different name.Trained by the fiercest of Indian warriors to fight, and taught by the most passionate of Indian women to love, Golden Hawk—now full-grown—was facing the choice of which world to live in, which path to take.Then his beautiful sister Annabelle, raised by Indians as he had been, was sold into cruel sexual c...

Wolf Caulder's reason for living was to kill.Why?Because ten years earlier, five saddle tramps had murdered his parents and nearly beat him to death.It took him that long to recover and get his revenge.But then he went after them, one by one.And the legend of The Vengeance Seeker was born.

There’s nothing bloodier than a father-and-son range war! All bets are off. Zach Stuart is back. He's got fast hands, a deadly gun, and a plan to destroy the toughest, meanest rancher in the territory. Don't try and stop him, because what's driving Zach is stronger than greed, stronger even than blood-lust. It’s hate. The man he's out to get . . . is his own damned father, "the meanest rancher in the territory." The Promise “G...