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Ballad novels volume 11
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Suddenly thrust into the role of primary caretaker for her family following the tragic death of her husband, Ellie Robbins is appointed to serve out his term as sheriff of their rural Tennessee mountain town. The year is 1936, and her role is largely symbolic, except for the one task that only a sheriff can do: execute a convicted prisoner. Ellie has long proven she can handle herself. But becoming sheriff is altogether different, and the demands...
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From the wrong side of the tracks and with most of her family in jail or dead, Piper Walsh is used to everyone in town thinking the worst about her. It doesn't seem to matter that she's worked hard to build a good life for herself. So she isn't surprised that when she comes into contact with Sweet Hill's wildly irresistible, arrogant sheriff, Hale Walters, they're instant adversaries. Piper has nothing in common with the town golden-boy-turned-lawman-and...
3) Firestick
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"In his mountain-man days, Elwood 'Firestick' McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name 'Firestick.' His two best buddies are Malachi 'Beartooth' Skinner--whose knife was as fatal as a grizzly's chompers--and Jim 'Moosejaw' Hendricks, who once wielded the jawbone of a moose to crush his enemies in the heat...
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Paul Torridon rides the fabulous steed Ashur on his way to Fort Kendry with his guide, plainsman Roger Lincoln, in The Man from the Sky. When Roger disappears one morning, Paul knows only that finding Fort Kendry by himself will be almost impossible -- and that's if he manages to survive on the empty plains. Then he comes upon ailing Cheyenne warrior Standing Bull sprawled on a small island in a dry gulch ... On his deathbed, gunman Hank Peyton tells...
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Angel's Landing grew up around a gold strike in the hills of Colorado. Mark Girard grew up during the boom period, and had witnessed it play out. Now he led a quiet life with a relatively easy job as sheriff. Then there was a new gold strike on Banjo Creek. Everyone realized that the boom days would return, and the question became could Mark handle them?
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Trail west volume 3
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"When Dooley Monahan saves Buffalo Bill Cody's life, Cody grubstakes him to purchase of a silver mine in the lawless, violent boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. When he guns down three outlaws, the grateful townsfolk make Dooley sheriff. Then he discovers a town tradition: if a sheriff's no good, they hang him. And fingers are starting to point"--.
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Bob Bannister tries the hide his past when he arrives in Prairie City where, because of the good he does, the sheriff is reluctant to suspect he could be wanted for murder and robbery, but Bannister's Prairie City experiences are not all pleasant and he must contend with the hostile foreman of the Half Diamond ranch, whose shady dealings cause Bannister to act in a way that only increases suspicion over his true identity.
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"The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel's entrance, each left with strange calling cards...
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In this fiery and violent new sequel to The Far Empty, even though Sheriff Ross is dead and gone, outlaws still walk free, peace comes at a price, and redemption remains hard to find. Some things in the Big Bend never change. Sometimes we have to be wolves. In the wake of Sheriff Stanford Ross's death, former deputy Chris Cherry-now Sheriff Cherry-is the new "law" in Big Bend County, yet still struggling to escape the long, dark shadow of that infamous...
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William W. Johnstone: The Greatest Western Writer Of The 21st Century
Welcome to the peaceful little town of Doubtful, Wyoming, which has more than its fair share of kill-crazy gunslicks, back-shooters, and flat-out dirty desperadoes. It also has a sheriff named Cotton Pickens, who tries his best to keep law and order without getting his head blown off before breakfast.
Doubtful's Got A New Deputy. . . For The Moment
Cotton Pickens got where he...
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West Texas sunrise volume 2
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Marshall Ben Flood, a quiet and respected lawman in post- Civil War Texas, is in pursuit of a band of desperados who have robbed a local bank and kidnapped feisty ranchwoman Lee Morgan. The leader, Zeb Stone, holds an old grudge against the marshall and leads his pursuer through the parched South Texas desert to LaRosa, Mexico, hoping for revenge.
12) Head over heels
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Lucky Harbor novel volume 3
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Breaking rules and breaking hearts Free-spirited Chloe lives life on the edge. Unlike her soon-to-be married sisters, she isn't ready to settle into a quiet life running their family's newly renovated inn. But soon her love of trouble--and trouble with love-draws the attention of the very stern, very sexy sheriff who'd like nothing better than to tame her wild ways. Suddenly Chloe can't take a misstep without the sheriff hot on her heels. His rugged...
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 1
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"Surrounded by ranches, farms, and precious metal mines, the town of Dover Station, Montana is ripe for the plucking. It's up to Sheriff Aaron Mackey to keep the peace--and keep the dregs of humanity from trying to make a killing . . ."--Amazon.com.
14) Dark territory
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Sheriff Aaron Mackey Westerns volume 2
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In the boomtown of Dover Station, Montana, tracks have been laid and everyone's looking to make a fortune, lawfully or not. And the law has something to say about it-one bullet at a time . . . DOVER STATION-WHERE DEATH RIDES FASTER THAN THE WIND A rash of deadly train robberies has the chief investor of Dover Station feeling itchier than a quick draw without a target. And he wants Sheriff Aaron Mackey to scratch that itch with every bullet his...
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Kevin Kerney mysteries volume 5
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Deputy State Police Chief Kevin Kerney is weeks away from trading in his badge for a rancher's hat, when six murders are committed at a remote campground in New Mexico. Most of the evidence points to the work of a spree killer, but peculiarities at one crime scene suggest another grisly possibility: that five random people have been shot to death to cover the premeditated murder of the sixth, Vernon Langsford, a retired judge and wealthy businessman....
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Not five minutes in a one-horse Texas town, and Hank Larson foils a bank robbery. No matter that one of the bandits tripped right over Hank Hank came to Glory to report crime in the newspaper -- not to stop it himself! But everyone seems to think the Lord led him there to save the day. Everyone except the town's beautiful healer, Amelia Hawthorne. The robber who got away was her nineteen-year-old brother -- and it's now Hank's job to haul him in....
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Stillman's War by Peter Brandvold-!When Sheriff Ben Stillman's deputy and best friend, Leon McMannigle, shoots a young woman who was about to shoot Stillman, the deputy's explanation falls on deaf ears. The dead girl's father sends his wild sons out on the vengeance trail. Wounded, Leon McMannigle is outnumbered and on the run. But Sheriff Ben Stillman takes the hunting of his friends as an act of all-out war.Blood Trail of the Horsetooth Widow by...
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The New York Times bestselling author Steve Thayer introduces Deputy P. A. Pennington of the Kickapoo Falls, Wisconsin, Sheriff's Department, in a gripping novel of sex, politics, and betrayal-where the lust for power leads a war-wounded young man through the explosive secrets of a small town in the presidential election year of 1960.
Michael and Maggie Butler are found naked and dead in a Wisconsin wheat field, murdered by two vicious shotgun blasts....
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"When the old prospector who raised Red is gunned down in Baker's Gap and the sheriff is wounded, fourteen- year-old Red tracks down the shooters and kills them. Sheriff Tom Harrison takes Red under his wing and teaches him all he knows about law enforcement until Red finishes school and joins the Texas Rangers"--.
20) For the record
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"Betsy Huckabee has big-city dreams, but nobody outside of tiny Pine Gap, Missouri, seems interested in the articles she writes for her uncle's newspaper. Her hopes for independence may be crushed, until the best idea she's ever had comes riding into town. Deputy Joel Puckett didn't want to leave Texas, but unfair circumstances have made moving to Pine Gap his only shot at keeping a badge. Worse, this small town has big problems, and masked marauders...