It is 1867. Captain David “Hondo” Stone of the Texas Rangers has been deployed on an assignment to Old San Antone, Texas. He is to apprehend Cy Jenkins, the son of a wealthy cattle baron, J.B. Jenkins, who is suspected of the murder of a...

In North Western by Jordan Elizabeth, readers meet Adair, a woman living in Utica who has recently lost her husband. Shortly after his death, she decides to take her daughter, Edith, and return to her childhood home in the small village of North Western. Upon...

In A Trail to Love by Joanne Kiersarsky, the story begins in the early 19th century with a young soldier named Rex who falls for Felicity, the daughter of a powerful and rather ruthless senator. After her father tries to force her into a marriage...

“The world didn’t leave us much, but it left enough. Enough to remind us that maybe, just maybe, we still matter.” Perhaps, but the novel Seeker by Glenn S. Robertson would indicate that we are a long way from what we once were. The world...

The Chinese thinker Lao Tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and that sentiment is echoed in Kaci Curtis's Along the Trail. Winnifred “Winnie” Hayes and her family take that first step as they leave their home and...

Where Rivers Run West by Will Colt is a brilliant historical novel. At the age of sixteen, Rory Fraser decided to make his dream of prospecting in Colorado come true. He left behind the Indiana farm he had worked with his father and older brother...

Saving Marietta: Journey to Freedom by Joy E. Held opens with a violent attack on the Applewood family in Kentucky, where young Romney and his little sister, Sarah Jane, are abducted from their home and separated. Years later, Romney—now living among the Delawares and known...

Dividing Down the Sunlight by Jason Shearer is a Western in the best tradition of the brutal, hard-living existence of the Nebraskan Panhandle. Set in 1878, it follows the exploits of Charlie Aintree, a manhunter, considered the best in the business. Operating out of Fort...

In A Conversation with a Deadman by John M Langley, Lee Butler enters a bar where a stranger speaks of a Texas town erased from maps, yet is still standing. The account leads Lee west toward Coleman. Empty streets point him toward people caught in...

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...