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Witness Seeker
Chance Gamble is a witness seeker: he pursues witnesses to crimes so they can give testimony for or against those…
Easy Pickings
March McPhee’s husband, Kermit, dies in the first sentence, killed by a falling rock in his Montana gold mine. She…
The Fast Men
Everything has a history. We know about athletics in ancient Greece, but how many are privy to the secrets of…
Charlie Red
In the summer of 1882, Tom Slade is riding shotgun on a stagecoach traveling through central Arizona, delivering $45,000 of…
Between Worlds, Never to Return: Historical Novel about the Emigration of the Germans to Texas
This combination of fiction and history is Ortwein’s response to a question she was asked as leader of a German/Texan…
Frontier Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Pioneer Women
This is a collection of biographies of twelve women who made their mark on the American frontier as entrepreneurs, ranchers,…
The Contractor
In 1868, young Charlie Madalone is murdered in cold blood by Kane Kelly, contractor for the railroad out of Omaha,…
House of the Rising Sun
Part of a series by veteran and best-selling author James Lee Burke, this novel presents the seemingly incessant travails of…
The Stacked Deck: Devil’s Own Book 3
In the late 1800s on a New Mexican ranch, former gunfighter Johnny Fierro tries to fit into his new life…
Escape from the Past: The Kid
Max is an advanced game player who has already had one adventure in traveling back in time to Germany in…
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