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| Abandoned by C.J. Petit The loud roar snapped Mrs. Doyle from her sleep and she quickly slid from her bedroll, stepped to the tent’s flap and pulled it aside seeing a bear standing on its hind legs just a few feet from her. What made it more horrifying was what she didn’t see. The camp behind the bear was empty. She dropped the flap and turned to her the... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with  Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Matt Dunne by C.J. Petit They came out of the sun and through the dust cloud created by the herd, firing their Winchesters and killing the men who were moving the cattle to Abilene. Each man fell just minutes after the attack began and the stampeding cattle finished the job that the rustlers’ .44s had started. Just hours later, the herd was already gone, the... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Inevitable by C.J. Petit Lin Chase was aptly named as he’d chosen the profession of bounty hunter. This chase was to apprehend or kill the notorious Whitacre brothers and he was getting close. They were just a few hours ahead of him now after more than a week and a half of tracking. He was the best at what he did and had never even felt the bite of a bullet... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Retribution by C.J. Petit Joey couldn’t imagine a better thirteenth birthday. He’d been given his first pistol and now was going to join his six older brothers on tomorrow’s job. They were going to trust him with covering their escape after robbing the bank and he was determined to do it right. He was immensely proud to be a Hogan, and his tough brothers... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Silver Widows by C.J. Petit Ada was angry as she prepared to go to see Mike Bergman, knowing he was doing nothing less than trying to steal their silver mine, and even though she knew that she, Elsa and Bridgette had little chance of standing against him much longer, she wasn’t about to give in. But even as she began that long ride down from the mining camp, a... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Virgil's Herd by C.J. Petit Virgil Scott and his best friend Roy Sheffield left their horse ranch and were making one of their routine runs to Denver to deliver thirty-two horses. But the short trail drive proved to be anything but routine when late that first night, they were set upon by men wielding deadly clubs. In just minutes, Virgil found himself face down in... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Ben Gray by C. J. Petit Pinkerton Agent Ben Gray was being sent to Denver for another all-to-common request for confirmation of marital infidelity. He didn’t mind because he’d be able to go and visit his brother, who unknown to him, had just found a rich deposit of gold in his mine near Leadville. The job turned into anything but routine when assassins were... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Wake of the Bertrand by C.J. Petit Kyle MacKenzie left Fort Omaha to head to do some scouting at Fort Sully in the Dakota Territory at the request of their new commander. He’d been riding west for a few hours with his packhorse in tow, he noticed a set of wagon tracks heading northwest that appeared to be just a couple of days old. It raised his curiosity and as the... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Ted Shepard: Return to Wilmore by C.J. Petit Ted Shepard had seen many deaths over his ten years as a bounty hunter and then as a United States Deputy Marshal, but none had come close to affecting him as much as this one. He didn’t know if he could go on any longer, but it would take a visit from the one person to get him to return to the job, and a return to his hometown of... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Wilmore by C.J. Petit Bounty hunters were generally viewed as little better than the men they hunted. Ted Shepard usually didn't pay any mind to what others thought. He was good at what he did. But now, he was trailing a body to his hometown of Wilmore. He might change his mind. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Marsh's Valley by C.J. Petit Rachel looked down at her husband’s dead body, the long knife protruding from his gut. She knew she’d be hanged or shot if she stayed in Missoula, so she’d have to run. But where could she go? The only place that came to mind was the hidden valley northwest of town. It was owned by a loner named Marsh Anderson, whom she had never... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Hunting Pearl by C.J. Petit Will noticed that the numbers didn't add up when he was eleven but didn't discover the truth of that mathematical problem until he was seventeen. For most of his young life, Will had known Pearl as his older sister, but only after the man who had acted as his father died, did he learn that she was really his mother. Now, despite his... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Nora by C.J. Petit Jake Fletcher thought he’d been blessed among all men when he stood at the aisle across from his bride. How such an ordinary man like himself had won her heart still astounded him. It wasn’t until a month later that he understood what had attracted her attention and that discovery would drive him across the plains of Colorado and... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Doc Holt by C.J. Petit Doc Holt listened to the boys at the other end of the bunkhouse as they joked about the night’s excitement, and he felt sick. What they were doing bothered him. Why they were doing it bothered him. But most of all, why he wasn’t doing anything to stop it bothered him. He always had believed that what others did wasn’t his business.... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Bessie by C.J. Petit Ed's life changed that first day of September when that deadly twister had roared across his Texas ranch and destroyed his house. But what was much worse was that it had ripped his Bessie and their boys from him and destroyed much more than the wooden structure; it had destroyed his life. Rather than rebuild, he had taken the coward’s... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Zack by C.J. Petit Zack's eighteenth birthday was tomorrow, but he wasn’t expecting a party. He needed to get away from the family cattle ranch as fast as he could. There was nothing for him at his home and he'd prefer facing the unknown to staying. Yet, he knew that in leaving, he was taking the easy way out and should stay and protect his stepmother... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Hopewell by C.J. Petit U.S Deputy Marshal Earl Crawford had just entered the office after returning from a typically Texan assignment where bullets flew like dirt in a twister. He hadn’t even hung his hat when the boss approached him about an even more dangerous mission, but only if he chose to accept the job. Normally, he wasn’t given the choice, but in... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Sam's County by C.J. Petit Yavapai County in Arizona Territory was bigger than Pennsylvania, and Sheriff Sam Hicks and his three deputies were the only law that most of its residents knew. When China Joe’s gang knocked off the huge cash shipment heading for Prescott, Sheriff Hicks left his office unsure if this would be his last job one way or the other. He knew... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Baker City by C.J. Petit No one had seen the innocuous rock on the long climb to the pass on the Oregon Trail, and when the last covered wagon in the long line rolled onto the lump of granite, it shouldn’t have made much of a difference, but it caused almost instant tragedy. Just seconds later, the wagon plunged over the edge of the narrow trail, then began... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Gus by C.J. Petit When aging cowboy Gus Matthews gets fired from Rocking-C ranch for laying out the mean-spirited, know-nothing foreman, he heads north for Oklahoma, where he finds work with the Aronsons, an elderly couple whose ranch has seen better days. What should be easy work for kindly employers quickly turns sour when Gus discovers that the... Today's Bargain Price: $3.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
| Cole by C.J. Petit Cole Turner left the Rocking T that morning to spend a couple of days with his brother and niece in Garden City. It was supposed to be a time of relaxation after having spent a few days moving those cattle to market. Any thought of quiet time vanished when he opened the door to his brother’s house. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Luke by C.J. Petit Luke Scott just needed to track down some rustlers. Who rustles cattle in Colorado in December, was the biggest question on his mind when he left his ranch. Three hours later, trying to find his way to safety in a howling blizzard, just staying alive was much more important. It was what he found when seeking emergency shelter that would... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Max by C.J. Petit Max could fix anything that had moving parts., but he couldn't fix what sent him to prison for five years. Now, he was back home and had to fix a lot more than machines, and found it was almost impossible to repair people that didn’t want to be fixed. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Last Four by C.J. Petit Joe had been the last child chosen. An entire trainload of children heading west had already been chosen, including his sister and his two friends. They had been the final four children on the train and made a pact to meet ten years later when they were all adults. The ten years were over. Joe would finally be reunited with his sister... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| War Adams by C.J. Petit United States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief. His father had been murdered? As difficult as it was to come to grips with the news, it would become more disturbing when he discovered that the person arrested for the crime was the nurse that his father had hired to ease his suffering from his killing disease, and... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Slow John by C.J. Petit After five long years in the army, First Lieutenant John Flynn was finally being mustered out and would soon be going home to the family he hadn’t even heard from in all that time. But when he rode to the family home, he made two shocking discoveries: his family was gone, and he had been declared dead by the army four years earlier. He... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Mister Thor by C.J. Petit TJ knew the coal was there. A large deposit. But he had seen something else that intrigued him about the area south of Gillette in Wyoming Territory. He would only find it after he had bought the huge tract from the railroad. And he found much more. Not all of it good. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Alex Paine by C.J. Petit Henry St. Martin walked into the hacienda to talk to his father. Everything seemed wrong. Where was his mother? Three hours later, sixteen-year-old Henry was ejected from the enormous St. Martin ranch and told never to return, or he would be shot on sight. He vowed to return seek revenge against the entire family. When he finally... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| North of Denton by C.J. Petit Matt finally had what he wanted; a ranch to raise his Morgans. Now he was ready to take the next step; the reason for building the ranch in the first place. He would finally begin his search for the right woman to help him start a family of his own. He thought that the difficult work in achieving that dream was behind him and now the... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| South of Denver by C.J. Petit After leaving his job as sheriff of Boulder, Sam Brown decides to visit his sister and her family on their ranch south of Denver, but discovers them all gone. He searches to find them, and what he discovers becomes his mission. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Chance by C.J. Petit James Everett was desperate. When his daughter had been kidnapped, and he couldn’t raise enough money for the ransom demand, no one; not the law, not the Pinkertons, and not even the army would intervene to try and free her. He had even had his offer of five thousand dollars turned down by a bounty hunter. But the bounty hunter... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Miles City by C.J. Petit Chicken Charlie was being shut out by the town and didn't know why. No one would buy her eggs or chickens. Then Ben Arden arrived in town and suddenly, chickens were the least of her concerns. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Finding Bucky by C.J. Petit Captain Stan Murray was finally being mustered out of the army after all of the administrative snafus that had left him in Montana Territory long after the conclusion of the War Between the States. As he began his long journey, he wasn’t going home to Michigan. He had to cross hundreds of miles of hostile Indian Territory to reach... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Debt by C.J. Petit Mattie Foster had made a terrible mistake. She had left Missouri and come to Green River, Wyoming to find her father; a father was not the man that she even knew. Now, she was being held by two men against her will. The man who was determined to find her was a rancher. A rancher with a debt to repay. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Nueva Luz by C.J. Petit Lee Ryan knew horses. He had his herd and his ranch. He even had his eye on a redheaded lass that would make everything perfect. The only thing that stood in the way of having everything he ever wanted was, of all things, hay. He didn't need it, but someone else did. And it was that need that shook his world. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Mac's Cabin by C.J. Petit Mac Jones had been searching for a refuge for seven years and had finally found it in the mountains of Colorado. Then, as soon as his cabin was built, he was presented with two fellow refugees that would turn his peaceful sanctuary into a killing ground. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Gun Smith by C.J. Petit Mack Smith had left his shop in Pueblo and was just an hour or so from reaching his brother’s ranch for his annual visit when he felt the bullet slam into his head, and when his eyes finally opened, he found himself flat on his back on the bottom of a ravine. What the hell had happened? He was only a gunsmith, not a gunfighter. Who... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| A.J. Smith by C.J. Petit AJ Smith had finally achieved his Big Dream. He had his ranch, a good-sized herd, and a healthy bank account. He thought he had finally added the last, most important part of the dream when Hannah Jacobsen, recent widow and mother of two, moved in with her sister in the neighboring ranch. But the reason she had become a widow would turn... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Rock Creek by C.J. Petit As Carl sat astride his roan gelding and stared at Pine Bluffs, he knew that his days of punching cattle were over. The long drives across the West were dying now that the railroads had crisscrossed the Plains. Ironically, his last formal education had given him the skills and knowledge to help build those railroads and now he’d... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Witch of Dakota by C.J. Petit The Witch's medicine was bad. She must be killed. But she ran before they could act. She ran across the Dakota prairie until she could run no more. She turned and faced the oncoming warriors. She had no hope, yet she would defy them until the end. Then came the thunder. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Gabe Owens by C.J. Petit Gabe had been assigned to investigate a case of timber poaching near Missoula in Montana Territory that could have been handled by a less experienced agent of the railroad, but the case had changed dramatically after the apparent murder of the station manager. What made it difficult for Gabe was that the station manager may have been... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Conn Jackson by C.J. Petit This was supposed to be a journey to find his dream of starting his own spread. As he left the Bar L just northwest of Cheyenne and rode south into Colorado, Conn already knew where he wanted to build his ranch and had enough money to buy the land and get it started. It was just a hundred mile ride through open country. What could... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Haven by C.J. Petit The sky was ablaze with shooting stars. Everyone had marveled at the sight, but as Zack Dyer watched and wondered what they meant, he heard a voice telling him why they had appeared. He suddenly knew what they signified and that he had been chosen to lead the faithful away from here to a place where they would be safe from what was to... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Will Scott by C.J. Petit Will thought the job to Robinson, New Mexico was going to be a simple determination of whether it was worthwhile for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to build a spur to the town. They claimed to have a huge coal deposit, and Will would just have to do a quick evaluation. Then, the simple trip turned into something totally... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| Sheriff Joe by C.J. Petit Sheriff Joe Brooks was talking to a young prisoner who gave him some incredibly bad news. Three notorious gangs of outlaws had merged into one large band big enough to take over entire towns in his sparsely populated county. It was when they began to terrorize his county that he had to act, and he’d have to take them on alone. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Eclipse by C.J. Petit The upcoming eclipse of was anxiously awaited by Clay Jeffries as he prepared is private observatory on his plateau above his father’s ranch near Rawlins in Wyoming Territory. Then, he received a visitor with an unusual request. He asked the ex-professor if he would tutor is frumpy, but brilliant daughter in astronomy so she could... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Scalawags by C.J. Petit Union Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe Farrell, to make sure that his family is safe. But what Sam finds is the Farrell family... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance | | |
| Tate by C.J. Petit Laramie had just been hit by the Clayton gang, leaving Sheriff Joe Tate without any deputies to serve the entire county. But, as bad as the gunfight had been, the visitor to his office to file a complaint for something that wasn’t even a crime turned out to be much more significant and life-changing. Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Second Star: A Christmas Western by C.J. Petit Mark Jordan was in no hurry to finish his ride across Texas to his first assignment in Dallas. He was ashamed of himself for not standing up to his father and choosing his own career. But, now he was an ordained minister and wished something would happen to change the course of his life, not knowing that the two riders that would share... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Romance; All Westerns | | |
| The Stampede by C.J. Petit Sheriff Jed Morgan thinks his life is about to get a lot quieter when he gets voted out of office in a bought-and-paid for election rigged by his family’s long-time nemesis Arnie Williams. But when the new railroad comes to town and Jed's neighbors, the Crawfords at the Bar C ranch, have their water poisoned and Arnie Williams’ hands... Today's Bargain Price: $0.99 Or FREE with Categories: All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Westerns | | |
