Ship of Fools
Summary
Ship of Fools is the fourth book in The Tales of Dan Coast series and begins where Coasts of Christmas Past left off. Find out how Dan deals with the death of a young friend while looking into the disappearance of a new friend's sister. Join Dan, Red, and Skip as they fumble their way through a new mystery.
©2015 Rodney Riesel (P)2018 Rodney Riesel
From Here to There: A Collection of Short Stories
Summary
Within this audiobook is a collection of short stories I have written over the past few years. The stories were mostly inspired by trips I've taken, places I've stayed, and conversations I've overheard from Maine to Florida. Although these stories differ from ones I have released in the past, I hope you will enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed writing them.
©2016 Rodney Riesel (P)2018 Rodney Riesel
The French Bride of Arkansas
Summary
Keith Hamilton, the son of a wealthy tobacco plantation owner, is ordered to marry a thoroughly disagreeable woman in Rutgerâs Creek - or his sister will not be allowed to marry her sweetheart. Something must be done. His best alternative is to get a Mail Order Bride. Anyone is better than Beatrice Charlston. Anyone. Colette Boisselot is newly arrived to America from France. After her fiancé deserts her, sheâs impoverished, destitute, and out of options. She signs up to become a Mail Order Bride. After all, sheâs convinced real love no longer exists - so what does it matter if she doesnât even know the man? Will Keith and Colette fall in love and have their happily-ever-after? Or will Keithâs family send Colette back to France, in favor of the girl theyâve already chosen for him?
©2020 Tica House Publishing LLC (P)2020 Tica House Publishing LLC
Street Stalker: Stalker di Strada
Summary
This is the Tennessee Horror Stories complete collection featuring all stories from book one, Motel on Murder Mountain, and book two, Elsa, the Devil Herself. Consisting of five uniquely connected short stories, "Street Stalker", "Macabre Motel", "Ghost Town 2012: Graveyard", "Elsa, the Devil Herself", and "Voodoo Hooker", that cover multiple genres including giallo, horror, noir, supernatural, slasher, crime/mystery, detective, and hicksploitation. Loosely based on actual locations with characters created by Carl E. Miller and Charles E. Miller. These stories will take you down a dark journey, following colorful characters in two very strange actual Tennessee towns; Adams, Tennessee, which is home to the famous Bell Witch, and Elkmont, Tennessee, which has remained a ghost town for decades.
©2020 Carl Edward Miller (P)2020 Carl Edward Miller
Too Late to Call Texas
Summary
If only he hadn't found the hat. Or the dead guy. Or the steamer trunk. Or the rag doll. If only he hadn't found any of these things, everything might have been okay. But he had found them. All of them. Now Carson Halliday is on the run, trying his damnedest to keep one step ahead of a dangerous gang of outlaws and mad men. A run leading him from town to town in the dry wasteland of the southern New Mexico desert, over dark hills and dangerous plains, through shantytowns and city streets, and, most frightening of all, into the mysterious depths of the human heart.
©2012 Trent Zelazny (P)2013 Black Curtain Press
Cowboys, Ranchers, and Assorted Characters
Summary
A number of years ago, I heard some stories about ranch and Western life I thought were among the funniest anecdotes I had ever heard. It started a quest. Over a 10-year span, I interviewed 150 cowboys, ranchers, and others, mostly in Texas and Nebraska. The result is Cowboys, Ranchers, and Assorted Characters: True Tales from the New West. It's the best of the best anecdotes from those encounters. Laugh-out-loud tales of cowboys and cattlemen, ropers and riders, pranksters and brawlers, odd neighbors and crazy bulls, arranged in a collection of 23 profiles/character sketches. For authenticity sake, the narrative voice is toned-down Western vernacular. All Americans - whether rural, urban, or suburban dwellers - have been infused with the cowboy mystique through television and movies. We're nostalgic for the ranch on which we did not grow up. These stories tap into that hidden part of Americaâs collective psyche. But you don't have to be some sort of cowboy enthusiast to enjoy these stories. Nor do you have to live in the country. The stories' broad appeal derives from the fact that they are simply about people (some of the funniest characters you'll ever meet) whose stories just so happen to come wrapped in a cowboy-rancher-Western theme. This audiobook is everything a wide-ranging general nonfiction consumer is looking for: Itâs original, funny, entertaining, well-written, there is strong storytelling, a collection of colorful characters, and a unique setting. Imagine Studs Terkel roaming the West and writing about the people he runs into, and you'll have a good feel for this audiobook. It's just plain fun, and the stories wear like an old pair of jeans.
©2018 Craig F Savoye (P)2019 Craig F Savoye
Wanted Dead
Summary
This is the latest novel from Western adventure best seller Russ Towne! With gun and badge in hand - Marshal Patch blasts his way through the bad guys to bring peace and justice to the Old West!
US Marshal Arliss âPatchâ Elkins sets out to bring to justice a rich 14-year-old boy accused of murdering his parents. When someone puts a $100,000 bounty on their heads with a single stipulation - kill them - Patch and his prisoner must fight for their lives. The journey to bring the boy to trial turns into a bloody gauntlet from hell when every murderous thug within 500 miles goes after them for the bounty money and the hunter becomes the hunted.
Grab this new Western adventure from one of the most popular Western authors of today!
©2018 Russ Towne (P)2019 Russ Towne
Purgatory Junction
Summary
Six souls: Benjamin Midkiffâ¦the bounty hunter George "Dealer" Grantâ¦the gunslinger Forest Bishopâ¦the land baron Jennie Stevensâ¦the saloon owner Cain Hartfordâ¦the gambler Pastor Tobiasâ¦the preacher All six will suffer in purgatory; only one shall survive.
©2011 Franklin E. Wales (P)2013 Franklin E. Wales
WMD Redux: Weapons Missing Detection
Summary
Short Story Fiction WMD, planted in a foreign country to justify invasion, go missing. One person knows their location. His value is tied to public reaction. Time is running out!
©2015, 2016 Clayton Jones (P)2016 Clayton Jones
Bedlam at Big Rock
Summary
Here's the fifth tale of the Old West in the spicy, fast-paced Big Rock Romance series. Buck lost his wife to pneumonia and his father to murder, within a few short months of each other. When he decides to crawl out of his mourning, he stops by to visit his friend, Dr. Elliott Larkin, and is introduced to Callie Mae Weathers and her friend, Lilac Indigo Preston. Buck had no idea his life would change so drastically within four short days! When he hires the Snow Detective Agency to help find his father's killer, Reed and Deacon Snow uncover information that could change all their lives. Take a trip to Big Rock and enjoy humor, mystery, sweet love stories, heroes, villains, and a couple of women who obey their men some of the time. But, oh dear, when they don't... Although all the stories in this series are technically standalone, the author advises that you might enjoy this one more if you listen to the fourth book in the series first, Big Rock Rescue. Better yet, treat yourself to all five in the series. You'll be glad you did! Publisher's Note: This humorous, action-filled, Western romance contains a theme of power exchange.
©2020 ABCD Graphics and Design, Inc. (P)2020 ABCD Graphics and Design, Inc.
Pursuers unto Death
Summary
Gus Ritter is on his way south to avenge his brotherâs murder. Facing gun battles with Comancheros and pursued by more than one posse, Ritter must use all his skill to survive. Throughout it all, love blossoms, and Ritter finds some meaning among the killing. For John Wesley Hardin, death stalks him like a wild beast. And an Okinawan, whose deadly hands have brought him close to the hangmanâs noose, will also have his part to play. As the dust settles, who will be the last man standing?
©2017 Stuart G. Yates (P)2019 Stuart G. Yates
Babylon Girl (A Serial Killer Thriller)
Summary
Cities will fall. Death to all. Life is good for Michael Callahan. Heâs retired from the force and now spends his days drinking imaginary tea with his daughter while his wife stars in a hit television series. When dreams of the serial killer, Murmur, ended, Michael buried those memories along with the secrets from his past. But a phone call from an old friend reminds him that the nightmare isn't over. And it's about to get worse. The Morning Star Killer has resurfaced after years of dormancy. Everything is at risk. Michael is forced to confront his demons when he tries to stop the man who calls himself, "the closest thing this world has seen to the devil." Babylon Girl is the second book in the suspenseful Morning Star Trilogy.
©2014 Paul Seiple (P)2020 Paul Seiple
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson - Young Jessie Owens
Summary
Jesse Owens was only nine years old when his family pulled up deep roots in their Tennessee valley coalmining town, and headed west. Riding a borrowed horse, he got to ride drag with the outriders. In Oklahoma Territory, he shot an outlaw in the back while saving one of his fellow outriders. Outlaws kidnapped Jesse's sister and two of the Stillwell girls in the Texas Panhandle, while the men from the wagon train were off somewhere wiping out an Comanchero camp.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson - Before I Die
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Most folks, as they get older, reminisce about the past of unfulfilled hopes, plans, and dreams. Have you ever said yourself, or heard a few of your friends say, "Before I die"? In this story, several different people say those famous words. A few get to see their dreams come true; others do not. A young Pennsylvania doctor's father wants his son to take his wife and go west, following his dreams. "Son, before I die..." His dream came true, and they all went west to Trinidad, Colorado. An outlaw with murder in his heart said, "Before I die I want..." It never came to pass, as he was sentenced to hang before he could fulfill this murderous dream. Then there is a local town sheriff who does his job of protecting the people of his town. "Before I die, I hope to see my town and county safe from robbers and killers. Why are some men so greedy they would kill for money?" Will his dream ever come true for Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado? A judge sat in his courtroom; before him sat killers, kidnappers, and robbers. "Before I die, I want to see..." His dream was well on the way to coming true.
©2017 Paul L. Thompson (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Hamilton Robb
Summary
When Hamilton tires of his deputy sheriff job he decides to try ranching, where the grass grows green and no one is shooting at him. His life is upset when the Stanton family arrive from Texas with their cattle, cowboys, feudal ways, and their beautiful daughter, Wanda. When the "Children's Blizzard" overtakes the country in 1888, the Texans and Hamilton are thrown together for mutual survival. What ensues includes adventure, generosity, misunderstanding, suffering, survival, a bit of humor, and some romance.
©2017 Reg Quist (P)2018 CKN Christian Publishing