After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now Carrol must fall back on his former outlaw savvy to track the murderer down.As the manhunt drifts mysteriously toward a legendary wilderness landmark known as the Mount of Snowy Cross, it embroils a number of men and women whose lives it will change forever. In the final reckoning, eit...

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Shortgrass Song is the saga of young Caleb Holcomb as he makes his way through life in an epic as big as Texas itself. Caleb's adventures take him through Civil War battles, buffalo hunts, Indian wars and barroom shoot-outs. On his way he meets:Snake Woman--the Comanche slave woman who kidnaps him as a child in an attempt to regain her rightful place in the tribe.Kicking Dog--the renegade Arapaho who rampages through the West scalping victims from Texas to Montana.

Reluctant hero, Honore Greenwood, has a knack for embroiling himself in the most violent conflicts of the Southern Plains. Known as Plenty Man to the Comanches, Honore serves as ransom negotiator for captives among the Indians. As if his life wasn't in danger enough, Honore has offered his services to the New Mexico Volunteers in the Civil War. But as Honore's luck would have it, he's in the same unit as Luther Sheffield, a man whose grudge against Greenwood knows no boundaries, even thoug...

Texan Mike Blakely is the best-selling author of Comanche Dawn (S1024) and a co-editor of Forever Texas (S1037). Moon Medicine is the story of a boy genius with a peculiar sensitivity to lunar cycles. Jean-Guy lives in a school for boys in France until he murders his vile fencing teacher for raping a woman. He is smuggled aboard a Clipper ship bound for America-the place where he knows he will find the visions of his dreams. Featuring a masterful narration by Joel Leffert, this story is an...

The Earth Shaker :: London Style.The Earth Shaker is about 2 office staff people, David and Helen caught up in a freak Earth Quake with the epicenter to the west end side of London.How they find themselves in a new light with each other and how love and passion blossoms.It's a straightforward and simple tale with a few novel twists on location in London around the Lambeth Bridge area.To see the other Short Stories in the Series, follow these links to Amazon....

When Indians massacre an army troop, Ross Caldwell's wife fears he's among the victims. But Caldwell is on the run, pursued by bitter enemies from the Civil War.Caldwell finds refuge in the arms of the sultry madam of Last Chance Gulch. But his bloody past catches up with him. A murderous ex-soldier is on his trail, and his wife has tracked him down as well. . .At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Mike Blakely again takes us on the trail with cowboy musician Caleb Holcomb. Caleb now becomes embroiled in Wyoming's Johnson County War, the Arapaho uprisings, the West's bloody cattle wars, the great cattle drives, and the wild, lawless land rushes that settled the Indian Territory.Through it all Caleb finds music, friends, and wonderful women. But will he ever settle down with Amelia Holcomb, his brother's widow, the only woman he's ever loved? Or will he stay too long at the dan...

Gold Taps Nice HouseWe are all guilty of misconception at differing times in our lives.This short story Gold Taps Nice House highlights our misconceptions and mistakes about people and places that we all too frequently do in our everyday situations.The woman in this short story will be misconceived by the reader as being both really nice and really nasty at different times within the storyline.That will be for you to judge when this happens. There is a bloss...

Microscopic Wizzard Willard : tiny wigan.A poem about the micro artist, Willard Wigan, who was born in Birmingham, England of Jamaican parents.This amazing artist has created some spectacular micro masterpieces, now selling for circa $40,000 +.Some of his better known clients are: Prince Charles, David Lloyd, Elton John, and so forth, so on !https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SX4XZ6HUpdate 17 on Audio includes about Little Miss Muffet, and Charles Darwin v...

A young Frenchman flees to America only to get caught up in an adventure in this Western from the Spur Award–winning author of Summer of Pearls ."Authentic in every detail, Moon Medicine is big medicine, a great novel and a compelling page-turner." — True West MagazineWhen broken-hearted Honoré Greenwood leaves New Orleans—and ...

In Comanche Dawn Mike Blakely does for the Comanche nation what Ruth Bebe Hills did for the Sioux in Hanta Yo. This landmark novel is the first time the story has been told from the point of view of the Comanches themselves. We witness the rise of one of the most powerful mounted nations in history through the eyes of a young warrior named Horseback.Born on the very day that the first horse comes to his people, Horseback matures into a leader of unquestionable co...