Showing results for "The Trail" in Anthologies & Short Stories

In "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon", Mike Bastian has been raised by outlaw chief Ben Curry and trained in frontier skills by Curry's most trusted associates. Curry now wants to retire from leadership of the gang he has headed for years. But he is frustrated in this ambition by various factions within his gang who want to seize leadership and by Mike himself, who is not sure that he wants to lead the life of an outlaw.

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life. His action-packed stories deal with eternal themes: honor, deceit, passion, betrayal, loyalty, courage, love. His settings are historically accurate, his prose riveting, and his characters colorful: good guys, bad guys, toughs, roughs, sidekicks, and saints.

What is a crimson trail? Is it blood? Or paint? Or yarn? Why would Sherlock Holmes revisit a previously solved case? How could an open window be important and how can a house be blackmailed? Dr. John Watson reveals the answers to these questions in The Crimson Trail and Other Stories along with cases involving the disappearance of a poet's intended, a Christmas card clue, a missing tiara, a caped murderer, a vampire attack, and a mythical moor creature.

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life. His action-packed stories deal with eternal themes: honor, deceit, passion, betrayal, loyalty, courage, love. His settings are historically accurate, his prose riveting, and his characters colorful: good guys, bad guys, toughs, roughs, sidekicks, and saints.

The greatest flood in the history of Oregon sweeps away houses, barns, and animals in the Willamette Valley. At the same time, fourteen-year-old Amy is swept away by her feelings for her best friend.

Search and Defend The search for a ruthless hit man turns into a deadly alpine chase… Undercover to track the assassin who killed his partner, FBI special agent Alex Driscoll accidentally pulls his partner’s widow, Violet Sharp, and her search-and-rescue K-9, Teddy, into the case. Now, with...

Jenna thought becoming a Blood Vice agent would solve all her problems, but now she’s sworn to solve House Lilith’s problems, too. And there’s no shortage of trouble when dealing with the most regal vampire family in the United States. The duke’s first assignment for Jenna and company is to locate Ursula, the estranged Duchess of House Lilith suspected of murdering her sire. It’s a tall order - a wild bat chase, some might say - and the long hours with half-sired agent Roman Knight soon drive Jenna to distraction, and possible destruction.

The first three episodes of best-selling author Joe Nobody's highly regarded serial, Apocalypse Trails, begins the story of Commander Jack Cisco and his harrowing journey to reunite with his family.

He lost everything the night his daughter died—now Heston is on the run, with nothing but hope and his twin granddaughters clutched in his arms. His past is closing in fast, and the law is too slow to catch the monster stalking his family. Janice has spent her life helping others heal, but nothing prepared her for the storm following Heston. Restoration Ranch is their only safe haven, even as ghosts of betrayal and pain rise from the ashes. As truths unravel and danger draws closer, unexpected alliances form and sparks ignite where trust once feared to tread.

This is an omnibus edition of the first three Perseus Gate Season 1 books. It also contains the short story "The Cook's New Crew". The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star: After nine long years of searching the Inner Stars, Jessica and the crew of Sabrina have finally found the president's brother, Finaeus Tomlinson. But a mysterious group within the Transcend Space Force, known as the Grey Division, has orders to intercept and capture both Jessica and Finaeus. Also features The World at the Edge of Space and The Dance on the Moons of Serenity.

Rider without walls and bound by the trail inspired by the rich legacy of the black cowboy historical contribution.

In pursuit of danger Mountain Survival by Christy Barritt When search-and-rescue park ranger Autumn Mercer and her K-9 partner, Sherlock, meet a stranger in the mountains whose brother is injured, they drop everything to help. But all they find where Derek Peterson last saw his sibling is a...

From the Author of the Cold Springs Killer, M. E. Hansen, comes a stylistic short story for all thriller audiences to enjoy! A sky full of stars on a sweet summer's night. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. Camp Tree Trail was one of many horrifying incidents created in the wake of the Cold Springs Killer. When one of the survivors, Timothy Anderson, is interviewed about the terrifying night, he recalls what he witnessed beneath the full moon. What should have been an innocent night of star gazing, turns deadly in a matter of minutes.

The rugged men and resourceful women of the West come alive in these western short stories. Traditional westerns are blended with a touch of science fiction and paranormal while remaining true to authentic western storytelling. Come hit the unexpected trail.

Jimmy and Orville are back for more supernatural mayhem in these four stories. Their penchant for finding trouble is as keen as ever.

Louis L'Amour is now one of the most iconic Western writers of all time, but once upon a time he was Jim Mayo, a regular writer for the pulps. Some of the tales he wrote in those days stuck with him enough that he later revised and expanded them into novels. But there was a special magic to the originals, and after research and restoration, these stories appear here now in their original form.

Although American author Bret Harte is most readily associated with stories about the West, it is his skill with characterization that distinguishes him from the hundreds of others who set fictional tales in the region. The miners, soldiers, gamblers, entrepreneurs, and lost souls who populate these pages are limned with Harte's unique combination of dry wit and tender pathos. This charming collection of Harte's short stories focuses on life in old California.

The West is a rough land where dangerous men and intrepid women take matters into their own hands. Grit and determination usually decides who survives, but sometimes the hand of fate steps in to change destiny. Come meet the heroes and villains whose lives hang in the balance.

A Trail of What if's & Love is a collection of micro-stories and poetry. Following the themes of what ifs, wondering about possibilities and directions, what could have beens and love.

An obscure original manuscript of Marco Polo’s travels ... A tantalizing clue to the site of Kublai Khan’s fabled burial site ... A chance to unearth the truth behind a long-lost treasure. It’s an opportunity that would make Indiana Jones drop everything but his whip and race off to China. But he’d be too late. Lieutenant Jonathan Daly is way ahead of him. Two bullet holes and a bad case of malaria may not be enough to stop Daly, but a crew of criminals, a brood of British agents, and the entire Chinese army are all in the game ... and determined to keep him out of it.