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Western action and adventure author Peter Brandvold's iconic Lonnie Gentry series comes together like a stick of dynamite and a match to blow readers away!In book one, Lonnie Gentry, life has not been easy for young cowboy Lonnie Gentry. He and his mother live alone, working hard on their remote Colorado mountain ranch. Now the thirteen-year-old must travel over perilous mountains to return money stolen by his mother's outlaw boyfriend. It's a man's job. And it's going to take a man - and the woman the man loves - to see it through. In The Curse of Skull Canyon, everyone in the Never Summer Mountains knows about the ancient Indian curse on Skull Canyon in the highest, remotest reaches of the range, not far from the ranch young Lonnie Gentry shares with his mother and infant half-brother.When a man's agonized wail lures him into the canyon, he finds a youth only a few years older than himself dying from a gunshot wound. Later, when savage men pour into the remote canyon, apparently searching for something they're willing to kill for, Lonnie learns the extent of Skull Canyon's horror.

A gunslinger is forced out of retirement in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series.Tom Navarro, a hostler at the Bar-V Ranch, has retired his gun-slinging boots to find peace of mind. As much as he enjoys working for Paul Vannorsdell, owner and operator of Bar-V, Navarro has plans of moving up north with the woman he loves to open his own ranch and create a new life for himself. Vannorsdell, too, has big dreams: he wants to buy the Rancho de Cava from an old friend, Don Francisco, so he can become one of the largest landholders in Southern Arizona. Everything seems to be going according to plan until Don Francisco is found dead by Bullet Creek. His sons and the rest of the Rancho de Cava ranchers suspect Vannorsdell. Immediately, the boys from Rancho de Cava begin a war with the Bar-V hostlers. And Navarro soon finds himself smack in the middle of a torrent of lead…More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!

SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Gideon Hawk shoots three men who try to rob the saloon he's drinking in. One of those men is the spoiled son of a local rancher, Mortimer Stanley. The rancher doesn't take kindly to Hawk killing his son despite the crime his son was committing.When the rancher sends five men into town to kill Hawk, and Hawk turns them all toe-down, dead as stones, war clouds gather over the little prairie town of Cedar Bend."Action-packed...for fans of traditional westerns."-Booklist

RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!Hawk is holed up in an old prospector's cabin high in the Idaho mountains when he learns that an innocent girl has been kidnapped by the notorious outlaw businessman, Quentin Burnett. Burnett erroneously believes he owns this entire corner of Idaho...and all the people in it, including the girls.Burnett has a history of kidnapping young women and marrying them. He gets away with it because he's rich and he knows the most powerful men on the frontier. When Burnett's girls get too old for him, or he just plain tires of them, he sends them down to the second floor of his New Canaan whorehouse and puts them to work on their backs.That dark fate is not going to happen to Jennie Broyles. Not if Hawk can help it.

SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Gideon Hawk hunts the notorious depraved killer, Pima Miller, into the Superstition Mountains of Arizona Territory. Hawk inadvertently shot the killer's Apache woman, orphaning the killer's infant son. The killer himself doesn't seem to mind. He leaves them both behind to save himself and head into the mountains with his beautiful young guide, Jodi Zimmerman, whom he's kidnapped from the Superstition Stage Relay Station.Hawk, however, minds very much that his bullet meant for the killer, Miller, struck an innocent woman. He storms after Miller with his usual bloodlust...

RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!The Tierney gang is spreading their terror throughout Trinity Ridge, and the town needs a temporary lawman to dole out justice - former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk. He won't rest until they're strung up from the gallows they once escaped."A storyteller who knows the West."-Bill Brooks

Gideon Hawk follows one rule - justice.Hawk's been asked to find a merciless gang leader called Knife-Hand. One of his hands has been replaced with a Mojave axe. But Hawk has something mightier in his artillery - a personal vendetta."Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series." - James Reasoner

Once a lawman, always a lawman. The only variation is whose laws you follow.U.S. Marshal Flagg is not going to let Gideon Hawk, once deputy marshal, now Rogue Lawman, slip through his fingers. He follows Hawk to his hideout in Bedlam, determined to catch him. But he doesn't know that Hawk has the help of an old nemesis on his side, a woman who knows the feel of his touch-and the feel of a gun. And what he doesn't know could hurt him."Action-packed...for fans of traditional westerns."-Booklist

SADDLE UP AND JOIN GIDEON HAWK ON HIS SEARCH FOR JUSTICE ON THE TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER.Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk gives some bounty hunters a lethal lesson in how reputations are made when a beautiful prostitute asks for his protection."Nobody writes this sort of hard-edged Western better than Peter Brandvold himself. Gideon Hawk is one of my favorite characters, and this novel is a fine addition to the Rogue Lawman series." - James Reasoner

The Rogue Lawman, Gideon Hawk, can turn from marshal to executioner with the pull of a trigger...A hunted man, Hawk has retreated to his remote cabin in the San Juan Mountains, hoping to simply disappear. But when young, beautiful Catherine McCormick comes to him alone in the rain from the mining camp over the mountain, he knows his respite is over.A vicious gang raided the girl's camp, ravaging and brutalizing at will, and killing Catherine's brother. Catherine is willing to give Hawk anything, even herself, to hunt down the killers and serve up the brutal, decisive, and fitting justice the Rogue Lawman is known for.

RIDE THE ROUGH, LAWLESS TRAILS OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER!Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk was respected throughout the Territory as a lawman of principle - until Three Fingers Ned Meade threw him a curve. Meade killed Hawk's ten-year-old boy, and the grisly act drove Hawk's grief-stricken wife to hang herself.Now, robbed of kin, Hawk sets out on a brutal quest to find the man responsible - at any cost.

THE SEXIEST AND MOST VIOLENT YAKIMA HENRY NOVEL YET!Yakima kills a young bushwhacker who was trying to kill him one late rainy desert night. The problem is, young Weldon Stratton was the son of a very powerful rancher, Renee Stratton, who is as savage as she is beautiful. Renee vows bloody murder on Yakima for having taken the life of her boy despite the kill-crazy nut-case young Weldon was. Yakima finds himself wrestled to the ground by Renee's ranch hands, stripped naked, and kissed with a red-hot branding iron by Renee herself.Marked forever by Renee's brand but armed with his trusty Winchester Yellowboy repeater, an Arkansas toothpick, a stag-gripped Colt .44, and a fury born of the mark he'll wear to his grave, Yakima declares holy vengeance on Renee Stratton and all of her gun-hung ranch hands who left him howling in the dust, Stripped and Branded!

Yakima Henry is once again Town Marshal of Apache Springs, Arizona. Not an easy job, for Apache Springs is booming and the railroad has come to town. Badmen outnumber the lawmen by a thousand to three.Yakima's job gets all the harder when someone kills a prominent businessman and siccs two kill-crazy assassins on Yakima himself. Turns out that's the least of his worries, for someone else sends even more killers bent on turning him toe-town - Yakima would like to know why.It seems to be tied to the fact that the mysterious, treasure-laden canyon southwest of Apache Springs is being the target of more and more gold-hungry men searching for their own El Dorados. However, according to the beautiful young desert rat, Emma Kosgrove, the canyon was cursed by an Apache witch. The removal of the treasure would release the curse from the canyon and wreak havoc across the land.

The town marshal of Apache Springs, Arizona Territory, Yakima Henry, has his hands full. Not only has the iron horse arrived in a storm of frenzied hoopla, bringing more crime along with it to the boomtown Apache Springs, but Emma Kosgrove's secret canyon has been discovered.One of the two young Southern brothers who stumbled into the canyon is dead, but it's unclear how he died or who killed him. The other brother was so traumatized by whatever happened to the other brother that he can't speak, just walks around in a daze, muttering the single word, "Snake," over and over again...Yakima's senior deputy, the Rio Grande Kid, has his own hands full of more trouble than he thought possible when he pinned the star on his shirt. Yakima sends "the Kid" to Tucson to fetch the murdering rapist, Darl Deakin, and bring him by stagecoach to Apache Springs for trial.

Yakima Henry is once again Town Marshal of Apache Springs, Arizona. The kill-crazy mining engineer, Rebel Wilkes, might have burned the town nearly to the ground two years ago, but with newly discovered gold in the surrounding mountains and a railroad on the way, the town is flourishing.But with wealth comes trouble, and Yakima is about to have his fill. The half-breed marshal has two deputies, the old former outlaw who calls himself the Rio Grande Kid, and a true kid, Galveston Penny, to help keep the lid on the town and the surrounding area, including a canyon filled with lost Jesuit gold.According to legend, the gold was cursed by an ancient Apache witch after the slaves were killed in an earthquake. If the wealth in the canyon is exploited, all hell will break loose in and around Apache Springs.

BULLETS FLY AND BLOOD PAINTS THE DESERT RED. Half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry has been ambushed and badly injured. Bleeding to death, he doesn't know who'll get to him first: the gunslingers or hungry wolves. Thankfully, comely widow Aubrey Coffin comes along and drags Yakima to safety. But as he heals, lawless desperados circle closer to finish the job they started, putting his innocent savior in the crossfire.  "In the realm of slam-bang action writing in the Old West, the rest of us can't hold a candle to Peter Brandvold."-J. Lee Butts, author of Lawdog.

SADDLE UP FOR A HARD RIDE IN THE WILD WEST. The drifting half-breed, Yakima Henry, is fleeing a warrant on his head in Colorado and longing for a stake and some long-sought peace and quiet in Old Mexico. But when he stops in the little town of Horsetooth for a drink to cut the trail dust, he ends up having to kill a saloon owner and falling for the dead man's beautiful wife. A man just can't help himself when assaulted by the wiles of the beautiful Mexican seductress, Paloma Collado, the former Mrs. Clancy Brewer. But Yakima's new round of trouble is just beginning...

ONE HELL OF A BLOOD-SPLASHED, ROUGH WESTERN TALE. Yakima Henry is holed up in an old prospector's cabin in the wilds of south-central Arizona, between Tucson and Lordsburg, New Mexico. He's decided to cool his heels until fall, prospecting for gold and hoping for a little color with which to fund a trek into Mexico. The half-breed wanderer just can't shake Faith's memory, however. Not even with the help of the firewater and pretty whore in the Busted Flush Saloon in the little nowhere town of Apache Springs. The firewater causes the crazed, jade-eyed half-breed to go into a rage and bust up the saloon and half the men in the town until he's finally subdued and carted over to the local jail - locked up by his friend, Town Marshal Lon Taggart.

Before he rode a black stallion, young Yakima Henry was a scout for the Arizona cavalry outpost Fort Hell, so named for its unforgiving desert locale and the many fearsome dangers that were all but routine. When Chiricahua Apaches attack a stagecoach bound for Fort Hell, Yakima Henry and fellow scout Seth Barksdale rush to defend it - only to discover that one of the fallen Apache is a blond-haired, blue-eyed white boy. This is shocking news to the fort's commanding officer, Colonel Ephraim Alexander. Years ago, his family was kidnapped during an Apache attack, and his desperate search was cut short by orders to evacuate. If this white Apache warrior is his son, can his wife and daughter still be alive?

Yakima Henry is hunting wild horses with his partner, Lewis Shackleford, when they're attacked by desperadoes. A mysterious gunman with a Sharps rifle sends the thieves running. But when they go to thank their savior, they find him dead - with a large poke of gold amongst his gear.Haunted by the man's death, Yakima takes it upon himself to take the gold to the shooter's family. But even around Christmas, nothing is easy. On the trip through the snowy Wyoming mountains, Yakima will have to fight hard to save himself and his traveling companions - including a beautiful woman on the run - from predators both animal and human.