The Midnight Marauder, John Crudder, has once again taken to the road to capture the very evil Butch Granger and his three friends in Bad to the Bone by Roy Clinton. When Butch arrives in Bandera and kills Jack and Thelma, an elderly couple John...

Love Child: A Midnight Marauder Adventure is a true western novel that was an excellent read. When Slim Hanson discovers he has a teenage son, Richie, from a woman he loved very much many years ago, he is thrilled. Slim, his daughter, Charlotte, and her...

The world’s population has been reduced to a more manageable level thanks to a deadly version of common influenza. In the dystopian novel Gone to Ground by Cheryl Taylor, this means that people have to move closer together and live in so-called APZs (Authorized Population...

Jeffrey W. Tenney’s Kimberling Bridge is a story of survival in a world gone mad. William is alone, dwelling under a bridge in Arkansas. Every day his situation worsens, he struggles, questioning his existence. At seventy-two, he is exhausted, too old to deal with simply...

The DeVine Devils by Jeremy Spillman is a historical Western novel about two young men, Audie and Shane DeVine. Set in the late 1860s in Verde Valley, Azariah DeVine, an evangelical preacher, takes his two sons with him to the Indian territory. Their mother...

A Woman Doctor Came to Town by Raymond Cook is a historical Western frontier story that follows Julia Pearce, a midwife who moves with her father Jacob to Apache Junction in 1890. As the father and daughter team settle into the town without a doctor,...

The Girl Who Loved Cayo Bradley by Nina Romano is a western tale with hints of romance, set against the interesting backdrop of Native American culture. Cayo Bradley is a cowboy from a nearby ranch, a wild young man with a painful past linked to...

Sophia’s father, an Italian immigrant, loses a poker game to Comanche Crow, a ruthless outlaw who leads a conscienceless band of thugs known as the Hellfire Gang. As a result, Comanche Crow claims Sophia as his prize. He calls her “Little One”, a supposedly affectionate...

The McCoys Before the Feud is the first entry in The McCoys Before the Feud Series by Thomas A. McCoy, a historical western tale packed with action. It begins in the last few days of the Civil War when everyone knew that the South had...

Melinda Gamble is a young, idealistic schoolmarm who takes a job in Idaho 3,000 miles away from her hometown, Boston. In Idaho, early on Melinda has an unpleasant encounter with outlaws who rob a bank where she is in the process of completing a...