John Tambascio has narrated 11 audiobooks on Listento.it by 6 authors. The most-rated is The Mustanger and the Lady.
Dig Another Hole
Summary
The day Dusty Farrow left to bring his cattle to market things were good. The day he returned, he found out they weren't. His closest friend, a woman he cared deeply for, was getting married, and not by choice. Something would have to be done, and he would be the one to have to do it.
©2013 Gerald Hartenhoff (P)2017 Outlaws Publishing LLC
Range War of Callie County
Summary
Charlie Brackeen owns the big ranch that takes up the entire north end of drought-stricken Callie County. When he pushes his B-Bar-M cattle south of their own range, it’s no mistake - it’s a hostile takeover, enforced by Sheriff Alex Woodbridge, the tough, one-eyed former Texas Ranger who’s in Brackeen’s pocket. They want the small ranchers leaderless and isolated so they can be picked off one by one and forced to sell their land. They just didn’t count on Jed Mahan. Jed is a small-time rancher who wants nothing more than to raise his cattle in peace and find comfort at the table and in the bed of the alluring Mrs. Gabriella Contras. As the county’s independent ranchers come together, though, they look to him for leadership. Jed’s reluctant at first, but when he’s blamed for the murder of his neighbor’s son, he has no choice but to step up. Woodbridge and Brackeen won’t waste time on something as trivial as a murder trial. Jed has two options - convince by-the-book county judge Neemore Davis of his innocence...or put Woodbridge in the ground before the old sheriff does the same thing to him. In the dust and heat of a wild South Texas summer, it won’t take much of a spark to set off a range war in Callie County. Please Note: This title has previously been published by another publisher under the title Brackeen's Law.
©2019 Oghma Creative Media (P)2019 Oghma Creative Media
A Bride for Gil
Summary
Gil Slatter's quick on the draw and has a head for running a ranch - but he's also a lonely man with nothing more than a cot in the bunkhouse at the TXY Ranch to call home. When the ranch's foreman drops dead of a heart attack and the owner picks Gil to take his place, his entire world turns upside down. One day life is simple. The next he's running the entire outfit. The old foreman's passing means more than just a new job on the ranch, though. He also leaves behind a daughter, a willful young woman named Kate. When Gil drops by to pay his respects, she shocks him with a proposal of marriage...and ends up stealing his heart. So starts the western adventure of a lifetime. Between wild horses, outlaws, rustlers, an ambitious young landowner with a mean streak, and the flirtatious, scheming wife of the ranch's owner, it's no easy task Gil faces. But with his new bride beside him, he'll take the TXY to new heights of success...or die trying!
©2015 Dusty Richards (P)2017 Dusty Richards
The Pride of Texas
Summary
With the authenticity of a real cowboy, best-selling author Dusty Richards weaves a moving coming-of-age story set against the cattle trails and open vistas of South Texas. Twin brothers Andrew and Jackson Franks have lived and worked under the iron fist of their father, Prior, for as long as they can remember. But when a petty household argument turns violent, and Prior shoots and kills their mother before turning the gun upon himself, the boys are left with nothing but each other and the family's hardscrabble South Texas ranch. Andrew's a planner and a thinker, while Jackson's a workhorse with a stubborn streak a couple miles wide. They've both got dreams of climbing out of the dust to become real Texas cattleman, but they'll need a hell of a lot more than hope to make it happen. They'll need luck, too, a whole damn heap of it - and it comes in a form they never imagined. Texas law - enforced by the crotchety county judge - says they need a guardian, and the judge finds a cousin from Arkansas, a widow woman named Sophie Grenada, willing to come to Texas to take the two pigheaded boys in hand. When she arrives, though, she's nothing like what any of them expect. Sophie's smart, tough, worldly, more than a little sassy...and most surprising of all, she cares. Through Indian raids, range wars, and the tough business of building a real, working ranch, they form an unbreakable bond - two boys thrust into a man's world before their time, and a woman who loves and cares for them as her own. If they can avoid a fetched arrow or a .45 slug in the back, with Sophie's help, Andrew and Jackson might just build the empire they're hoping for, and fulfill their destiny to become The Pride of Texas.
©2017 Dusty Richards (P)2018 Oghma Creative Media
Dropzone
Summary
Sergeant Stryker and his elite commandos have been tasked with an impossible mission, one that few might escape from alive. The battlefield is the alien world of Spascia and the enemy an entire Legions of Biomech warriors and their terrifying war machines. The unrelenting horde is just hours from shattering the last Alliance lines, and defeat here might spell the end of the war. The gallant defenders fall back in disarray, and only Stryker’s commandos can hold back the enemy long enough to prepare a last line of defense. Falling from the sky like meteors, the drop troopers of Stryker’s commandos leap from their heavily armored landing craft and into a battle they can never hope to win. Stryker’s Commandos: Dropzone is the first in a thrilling six-part science-fiction series of short novels by best-selling author Michael G. Thomas.
©2020 Michael G. Thomas (P)2020 Swordworks
Gold in the Sun
Summary
A drunken plan to make some quick money with two friends landed drifter Whit Ralston in the Yuma Territorial Prison - the worst prison in Arizona. Now he's doing hard time in the inferno the inmates call the Hell Hole, counting the days until his release. He's vowed never to do anything so stupid again, but that becomes a hard promise to keep when his crazy cellmate starts talking about a load of stolen gold stashed up in the mountains. When he falls for a beautiful, blue-eyed lady of the evening named Oleta, who seems as taken with him as he with her, he realizes he might have a new reason to run some risks. Once he gets out of prison, Whit starts making plans - but he's going to have to make better choices about just who to believe in order for his latest scheme to hit pay dirt. People say a lot of things, especially when it's money on the line. In the Old West, though, following the law is never as important as trusting the right people.
©2017 Oghma Creative Media (P)2017 Oghma Creative Media
Tales from an Ex-Husband
Summary
Imagine it.
You're sitting at a bar, restaurant, or some other public hangout. You can't help it, but you overhear a conversation. The content catches your ear. It's someone's personal story, struggle, and woes. Not to be a Nosey Nelly, you try to overhear this guy telling his table of buddies a horrendous tale of love, life, and betrayal. It sounds like he went through an ordeal. It's free gossip. It's juicy news. It's also comforting to hear you weren't alone in your nasty blowout relationship.
That's what it's like to listen to this book.
The story delves deep into personal experiences, tragedies, and most of all, abuse. Chapter by chapter, the story unfolds to explore the turbulent relationship with an ex-wife, from meeting back in High School to the ultimate fall of the relationship at the hands of extramarital relationships. Along the way, many people were players in this tale of love, hate, and humor. As it unfolds, the tale will prove humorous, serious, and just plain old head-shaking crazy. Dodging and weaving the crazy, we will go through various mental stages, crazy WTF moments, and sometimes comical points in time throughout the journey.
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©2019 Harry Carpenter (P)2019 Harry Carpenter
A Man Dead
Summary
On his way south to find his brother's murderer, Gus Ritter finds himself falling in love. But love alone cannot remove the dangers surrounding them on the road to El Paso. Attacks from marauding Comanches bring home the violent reality of their journey. Soon, all players of this drama are brought together for one, final shootout, and the truth is finally revealed. But in the end, can any one of them come out alive?
©2017 Stuart G. Yates (P)2019 Stuart G. Yates
Municipal Tilt
Summary
When an upstart band of students takes to the streets in a hot local election, the stakes are clear enough. A vacant seat on the city council. Industry versus the environment. The timeless pursuit of power. Campaigning in the inner city, the electioneers prove capable, enhancing their candidate's chances when few thought they could. But deep forces churn, and as the election unfolds, the twin evils of race and class threaten to devour everyone - the good guys and the bad. An old secret told to damning effect. A political operative unhinged. And the unexpected rise of Eva Havlicek, the cunning beauty with a Cold War accent. Peopled with a cast of fascinating, well-developed characters and real world situations and events, Richard Massey delivers a fast-paced political thriller built around the oldest truism of American democracy - no matter where you're from, all politics is local.
©2017 Oghma Creative Media (P)2018 Oghma Creative Media
The Texas Badge
Summary
Bank robbery. Jailbreak. Massacre. Alone, each would send good folks reeling. But when all three occur in the same night in the same small South Texas town leaving no eyewitnesses behind, it could be the end of the world. Saddler County Sheriff Dell Hoffman is charged with bringing the perpetrators of these horrific crimes to justice, but even the toughest and most cunning lawman in Texas has his limits. With nothing to go on but five bloody bodies, a cracked safe, and an empty jail, Dell works the fringe of his sleepy western town - the forgotten, the invisible, those who often see without being seen. The more he learns, though, the more he wishes he could forget. In search of the truth, Dell finds himself pulled into a dark world of murder, deception, and brutality the likes of which he never imagined. Will he solve the most heinous crime in Texas history? Or will Dell's drive for justice lead him to an even greater tragedy for both himself and those he cares for most?
©2016 Dusty Richards (P)2016 Oghma Creative Media
The Mustanger and the Lady
Summary
Vince was a mustanger with a solitary camp high in the Rusty Hills where he worked his operation alone. He liked it that way. Then on a trip back from selling some mustangs, he came across Molly, a saloon girl on the run from some pretty bad hombres. Before he knew it, her fight was his fight, and he was looking forward to a life with her. They just had to fight a small war first.
©2016 Dusty Richards (P)2016 Oghma Creative Media