You know that you are in for a good story when you are introduced to the heroine as she is finding her strength and who she is as a woman. Bethany Lopez got it right in "I Choose You" by starting the main character, Nicole,...

The year is 1868 and Carnelian Wendell (Carni) can't believe it has been a year since her world changed forever. Associated with an outlaw, her past isn't something she is proud of. The thing is that she doesn't feel she belongs anywhere, so she decides...

Dooley Monahan had one job given to him by his pa, and that was to ride south to a town near the Missouri border and pick up a milk cow. Dooley left with the money his pa gave him for the cow, but he got...

“Partners” by Dave McGowan transported me back to the year 1866. Unseen, I journeyed alongside Thomas Brash in his attempt to escape memories. He left behind his hundred acre farm, a teaching position, everything he once thought was important. After burying his wife and two...

Henry James, also known as Hank, was twenty-one when he and his partner Harry Gilmore decided to homestead. Hank was actually looking for Sharon Dalton too, whom he had fallen hard for while they were living in Farwell, BC, where Hank had a successful freight...

"Maggie's Fall" is a story that revolves around the life of Maggie McClellan. Orphaned and about to become a single mother, she inherited her parents' ranch and finds out that running the place is a big challenge. She settles down with Martha and Jonas, who...

It's the old West, Texas specifically, in those years right after the Civil War and notorious gunfighter Rondo Landon, or Joe Lenders as he often calls himself, sits in a jail cell in Midway, Texas. His cousin, Texas lawman Lt. Yancy Landon, and Judge Parker...

“A Rocky Mountain Christmas,” written by William W. Johnstone with J.A. Johnstone, is a story of survival along with love and betrayal set in the late 1800’s. Rebecca Robinson, former Ambassador and the country’s most admired woman, is waiting for her flight and Margaret Chambers,...

"Strike of the Mountain Man" by William W. Johnstone is a good western cowboy story. There are good guys and bad guys and lots of fastest draw gun battles. Smoke Jensen is the all around good guy, hero of the story. He has a great...

"Redeeming Reputation" by George H. McVey opens with a pair of desperadoes holding up seminary graduate David Nathaniel Ryder in the Third's train. David allows them to take all of his cash, but when one of the outlaws mistreats a child, David tricks the outlaws...