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Sixkiller has come to Ringgold, Wyoming, on the trail of Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer hes been carefully stalking for weeks. But before Sixkiller can strike, Skillern takes a job with the towns duly elected mayor, a politician so corrupt that the only way to get near him is by being even more corrupt. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun, and sets out to destroy the mayors gang from inside out. Sixkillers carefully masked plan is just about...
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Though the war for American independence has come to an end, Nathanael "Fox" Carter still struggles to survive the tragic loss he has suffered. When greed and selfish ambition threaten to destroy the only home he has known, Fox and his mother flee over the Misty Mountains to start a new life. But with growing hostilities between the settlers and the Cherokee, Fox soon discovers frontier life is a daily battle for survival.
28) Bloodroot
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Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a stunning fiction debut about the legacies of magic and madness, faith and secrets, passion and loss, that haunt one family across the generations, from the Great Depression to today.
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Eight years after her marriage Ave Maria Mulligan Mac discovers that the mountains she has dug roots into cannot shelter her from painful lessons of the heart. Almost everyone in the town has advice for her, but when she takes her daughter to Italy for the summer, her passion and a seductive stranger will test her marriage and push her to choose the man who is truly her destiny.
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"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart.-- When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men--each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...
31) The taking
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Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...
32) Wild boy
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Twelve-year-old Jesse runs away from home and tries to survive on his own in the nearby mountains.
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"A sudden, irresistible kiss results in a marriage of convenience between a Mountain Amish girl and the handsome Englischer professor studying her unique community. While in Atlanta meeting her husband's wealthy, overbearing family, a misunderstanding causes her to return to her remote Appalachian home heartbroken, but a crisis will work to show her the power of love"--
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Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home to Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding close her tight circle of family and friends. But with her daughter Etta, having flown the nest to Italy, Ave Maria has...
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Smoke Jensen has journeyed up to the Colorado Rockies to a sell a prized bull to a local rancher. Instead, the rancher and his wife have been mercilessly slaughtered by outlaws only moments before Smoke's arrival. In a hail of bullets, Smoke pulverizes two of the murderers and drags two others to the town of Brown Spur for justice. Come hanging day, the two killers are on the way to the gallows when a thundering gang of raiders crashes into town and...
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Revenge of the Mountain Man: Smoke Jensen returns from a cattle buying trip to discover that his wife has been shot by outlaws, and is determined to track down her attackers.
Vengeance of the Mountain Man: Just when it seemed that Smoke Jensen's life had settled down to something resembling normal ... He's all but forgotten the vicious young gunfighter who called himself Sundance. Smoke had hoped to teach that twisted kid a lesson by shooting off...