Destiny of the Mountain Man by William J. Johnstone (Western)
In the bush country of
South Texas, Captain Richard King built a sprawling ranch called Santa
Gertrudis. But at the end of the Civil War, while king was in Mexico,
his ranch was raided by Union troops led by a sadistic killer who burned
Santa Gertrudis to the ground--and slaughtered everyone on it.
Thirty
years later, King's land is about to run with blood once more. Former
Union Captain Jack Brant has gotten out of prison and is raring to pick
up his rampage where he left off. Called to Texas, mountain man Smoke
Jensen is ready and willing to help King fight fire with fire. Brant
isn't worried about Smoke Jensen--after all, what can one man do?
Well...he's about to find out .
The Tourist by Olen Steinhauer
Milo Weaver used to be a
"tourist" for the CIA - an undercover agent with no home, no identity -
but he's since retired from the field to become a middle-level manager
at the CIA's New York headquarters. He's acquired a wife, a daughter,
and a brownstone in Brooklyn, and he's tried to leave his old life of
secrets and lies behind.
However, when the arrest of a long-sought-after
assassin sets off an investigation into one of Milo's oldest colleagues
and exposes new layers of intrigue in his old cases, he has no choice
but to go back undercover and find out who's holding the strings once
and for all.
The Quick and the Dead by Louis L'Amour (Western)
When Duncan McKaskel
decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he
was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was
expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to
use violence against other men—men who would follow him and try to steal
the riches that he didn’t even possess.
Yet bandits were only
part of McKaskel’s worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had
appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian’s true interest
Duncan’s wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him?
As
they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the
greater threat—the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger
within.
Flirting With Forever by Gwyn Cready
RITA Award-winning author Gwyn Cready's fun and sexy new time-travel
adventure, an ambitious writer discovers that bad-boy painters are as
timeless--and irresistible--as their art.
Art historian Campbell
Stratford is about to make a name for herself with her scandalously sexy
tell-all "fictographies" of famous seventeenth-century artists, but
she's more iintimately familiar with her subjects than her eager readers
can imagine. Thanks to a time portal she accidentally discovered, she
has caused quite a stir in the Great Beyond. To save their reputations,
the Guild protecting dead artists convinces playboy Peter Lely,
portraitist to the king, to sabotage Cam's latest project. A few hours
posing on Sir Peter's modeling chaise leads to a night of seductive
passion--then Cam returns home and discovers his betrayal.
But before
she can turn her angry pen on her lover, Sir Peter makes a surprise
visit to the future and transforms Cam's twenty-first-century life into
chaos of classic proportions.
Long Ride Home by Louis L'Amour (Western)
Traveling under an
alias, the last thing gunman Clip Haynes wanted was attention. But Basin
City needed a town-taming marshal, and a cold-blooded murderer was
hiding behind Haynes’s real name. Now Haynes was coming out of hiding to
protect his honor, save a town, and catch a killer—even if it cost him
his life.
Lou Morgan was as tough as they came. But it wasn’t
just the money or the challenge that motivated him to take on a suicide
job involving a buried Spanish treasure and two greedy killers. It was
love for a beautiful señorita who had left him for dead years ago.
It’s not easy being the new schoolma’am in town . . . especially when
you’re a man. But Van Brady isn’t quite the tenderfoot he seems, and
before he’s through he’ll teach a few hard cases a lesson they’ll never
forget.
From the rough-and-tumble streets of San Francisco to
the dry desert plains of Texas, from a roughshod gambler willing to
wager his own life on a single bet to a killer with a heart, here are
stirring tales of the Old West as only Louis L’Amour can write them,
tales of men and women risking their lives, fighting their wars, and
standing tall on the American frontier.
Eyes Wide Open by Andrew Gross
A horrible family tragedy that may not be what it seems . . .
A past encounter with an infamous killer turns deadly today . . .
An ordinary man must risk his own family to find the truth.
Jay
Erlich's nephew has been found at the bottom of a cliff at Morrow Bay.
It's all just a tragic suicide, until secrets from the past begin to
rear up again. Did a notorious killer, jailed for many decades, have his
hand in this?
Years ago, Jay Erlich's older brother, Charlie, a
wayward child of the sixties, set out for California, where he fell
under the sway of a charismatic but deeply disturbed cultlike figure.
Tragedy ensued and lives were destroyed, but as the decades passed,
Charlie married and raised a family and lived a quiet, secluded life
under the radar. Yet the demons that nearly destroyed him never
completely disappeared.
When Jay heads out west to help his
grieving brother, he is pulled back into Charlie's past--and begins to
suspect that his nephew's suicide may not have been that at all. With
eyes wide open, Jay puts his own life at risk to uncover the truth, a
quest that goes beyond the edge of madness and a family haunted by a
secret past . . . and into the depths of evil.
Drawing on two
real-life experiences from his own past, Gross has crafted a richly
personal, yet utterly terrifying tale of two brothers, one successful,
one wayward, trying to bridge the gap of what tore them apart.
Lassiter Gold by Loren Zane Grey (Western)
It started with an old
man's dying wish. All Lassiter had to do was haul a trunk to the sleepy
town of Sunrise and deliver it to the man's son. But when the son dies
mysteriously and the trunk turns out to be filled with $60,000 in
double eagles, Lassiter's simple task becomes a whole lot more
complicated.
Next thing he knows, he's facing the gun barrels of a
ruthless gang out to get the money for themselves and a trumped-up
murder charge. Unless Lassiter finds some way out of this mess, the
only way he'll be leaving Sunrise is in a pine box.
One Fine Cowboy by Joanne Kennedy
"He's got a way with horses...and with women..."
His heart is as wild as the horses he trained...
Nate
Shawcross is perfectly content to spend his days training wild horses.
So when a beautiful greenhorn unexpectedly shows up for a seminar from
the famous "Horse Whisperer" of Wyoming, all Nate wants to do is send
her packing...
The last thing she expects is a lesson in romance...
Graduate
student Charlie Banks came to the ranch to learn about horse
communication, but when she meets the ruggedly handsome cowboy, she
starts to fantasize about another connection entirely...
Nate
needs to stay focused if he's going to save his ranch from foreclosure,
but he can't help being distracted by the brainy and breathtakingly sexy
Charlie. Could it be that after all this time Nate has finally found
the one woman who can tame his wild heart?
The Empty Land by Louis L'Amour (Western)
For thousands of years
the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an
occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and
everything changed overnight.
In six days a town called Confusion
appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the
flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand
only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are
ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt
Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist
trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and
outgunned, Felton and Coburn can’t afford to be outmaneuvered. For as
the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and murder in an
attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can mean either the
fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any move
could be their last.