What happens when duty forces two strangers together? In The Gamble by Karen Black, readers are taken to Texas in 1895, where Emily chooses to honor her father by agreeing to an arranged marriage, hoping to save his struggling ranch. She’s spent years working like...

In 1876, eighteen-year-old Loren Ardoin left his home in Louisiana, escaping from the lingering aftermath of the Civil War, heading west with only his worn guitar. After days on the railroad and drifting through towns with his music, Loren ends up in Nogales. In this...

Life in the West was tough in the early days of pioneering. In C.C. Harrison’s The Women of Bandit Bend, this life is particularly tough for the women struggling to make a life for themselves on an isolated homestead. Tally and Ivy Tisdale live on...

“I rode out to my horses and spent the night with them. They knew nothing of politics or diplomacy.” No, horses know nothing about these things, and as illustrated in The Shadow Appears, Book 1 in The Devil's Shadow Series by Burt Tyson, they know...

In The Widowmaker’s Bride by Diana Reyes, it is 1874 in the unsettled Colorado Territory, where Deputy U.S. Marshal Dan Crawford tries his best to raise his lively daughter, Susannah, after losing his wife. When he realizes he needs a mother for his daughter, he...

The Boy by Reno Bachman is the story of a young boy who carries the heavy burdens of fear, anger, and grief after losing everything he holds dear. On a fateful night, he witnesses his father's murder and the destruction of his home. However, the...

You don’t expect to find love between rattlesnakes, river crossings, and wagon wheels, but sometimes, it finds you. The Trail to Love by Tina Susedik is a love story that unfolds along the dusty roads of history during a grueling journey along the Oregon Trail...

The Path of Saints and Sinners, the fourth book in J.F. Collen’s Journey of Cornelia Rose series, finds Cornelia “Nellie” Wright and her family at a crucial crossroads in 1857, having just survived the rigors of the Overland Trail to reach Great Salt Lake City....

Rodeo Road by Johny Weber is a heartfelt tribute to the rugged world of rodeo life, blending fiction with authentic experiences from Weber’s own travels on the rodeo circuit in the 1970s. The story follows Kasey Jacobs, an aspiring young barrel racer who is determined...

The Ruby Demon by Oscar O'Rourke is a surreal and emotionally charged literary novel that follows a boy named Jack on a haunting journey through a warped version of the American Old West. In a landscape painted with horror, drama, and poetic intensity, Jack's experiences...