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Ariana loves her life-her parents, her little town, her job as the town's schoolteacher, her students. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home before a blizzard hits, her whole life changes in an instant.

"BLOOD IS THICKER THAN SLAUGHTER Luke Jensen has seen some sorry looking bounties in his time, but this one takes the cake. A wanted poster is offering a reward of one dollar and forty-two cents-plus one busted harmonica-to capture Three-Fingered Jack McKinney. Turns out, McKinney's twelve-year-old son Aaron wants revenge on his daddy for abandoning him and his mom. The reward is all the money Aaron can scrape together. Luke can't say no to the poor...

Follows the tracks of young Lew Dorset as he searches for his father, from pre-Civil War Virginia to the prairies of the West. Lew battles the Cheyenne, and shelters with the Sioux, absorbing their culture while his friend Chuck Morris marries an Indian woman. When Lew later tries to reconcile Chuck with his abandoned wife and son, he falls into great danger.

"It is 1830, and the Berrybender family, rich, aristocratic, English, and fiercely out of place, is on its way up the Missouri River to see the American West as it begins to open up." "Accompanied by a large and varied collection of retainers, Lord and Lady Berrybender have abandoned their palatial home in England to explore the frontier and to broaden the horizons of their children, who include Tasmin, a budding young woman of grit, beauty, and determination,...

This debut novel by the star of TV's "Walker: Texas Ranger" and a posse of authors introduces men of simple faith, unsung Civil War heroes who have ventured to the open plains of Texas to bring justice to places that have none.

A novella and stories. In the novella, Rustler Roundup, the lone hero outwits a gang of cattle rustlers, Desperate Men is on a prison break during an earthquake, and in the title tale a cowboy finds women more of a challenge than a cattle drive.

Saga of the men and women who fought savage enemies and many dangers in their conquest of the untamed West.

Follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States, under constant attack by those it borders--land developers, an Indian reservation, and America's first National Park. It is an intense study of a violent world far from media scrutiny--where land grabs make developers billions, and politicians are bought and sold by the world's largest oil and lumber corporations. Where drinking water poisoned...

Wounded gunman Matt Price was resuced by the Carvers, a black pioneer family. In turn, he must save them from the hatred and prejudice of the people in the new area they settle.

A gunfighter leads a team of the deadliest men in the West on a mission to free a peasant leader from a Mexican prison.