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One look at the welcoming party of Indians and Clint Adams knew that Fort Smith, Arkansas, was no place to let his pistol get cold. Seems folks there don't take kindly to strangers, especially ones that mosey into town with four of the meanest trail bandits in the territory. And the nastiest one of all is a hot-blooded female whose passion for the Gunsmith just barely matches her passion for killing. Things turn from bad to worse when Clint learns he's only riding shotgun to his reputation, which got to Fort Smith long before he did. Now an ornery hanging judge is asking him to pin on a marshal's badge and track a ruthless outlaw. And even the Gunsmith can't say no to a hanging judge...

Clint Adams can't resist getting tangled in other folks' troubles-especially when those folks are pretty females. But when his pal Rick Hartman bets the Gunsmith he can't take a vacation without getting mixed up in someone else's bad business, Clint vows to leave his white hat at home.So the Gunsmith heads for London and some peace and quiet. In less than a day he's up to his neck in murder. And he's the only man who can clear a suspected strangler. A suspect whose hide he's kind of attached to...name of Clint Adams.

2021 Chanticleer Laramie Award Winner Bound, like many other strong words, finds its meaning in the perceptions of those it affects. To the Van Sheltons, it is positive and deep-rooted, defining their ties to a vast amount of land abundant in the timber, cattle, and silver that make them the wealthiest and the most powerful family in the town of Wyandotte and influential throughout the state of Nevada. To J.D. Rohr, who has no money and few prospects, bound is a hopeful force, driving him to Wyandotte, where he assumes the identity of Jesse Bodine in a desperate attempt to live in obscurity, hiding from his reputation as one of the West's most feared gunfighters. For Dr. Frederick Albert Carlisle, an aristocratic Boston physician who becomes Jesse's friend despite their romantic rivalry, bound is a magnetic lure that compels him to abandon his Beacon Hill mansion, his upper-class privileges, and his affluent patients in a quest to give meaning to his life by serving poor westerners sorely in need of his healing knowledge. As for Honoria Lowell Blaire and Lillian Tomlinson Wellesley, blue-blooded descendants of two of New England's oldest and most distinguished families, bound represents the chains that will bind them to "a God-forsaken wilderness" if they choose to live with the men they love instead of clinging to their pampered lives among America's nobility. And for the incomparably beautiful Jolene Lloyd, being bound is the same as virtual imprisonment when she is coerced into saving her family from financial catastrophe by being shackled to a ruthless, emasculated tyrant driven by hatred and bitterness to take control of Wyandotte and force the mighty Van Sheltons to grovel at his feet. These and the other men and women of Wyandotte, the good and the bad, battle for a quarter of a century to determine their region's fate during the fading years of the Western Frontier.

Flint Bluff, a silver medal winner from the Independent Publishers, has received high praise from its readers. The novel is an extraordinary saga following three generations in the lives of several families as they settle a frontier community along the Mississippi River, which would become the city of Burlington, Iowa. Award winning author James Duermeyer creates a colorful tapestry of the period of 1833 to 1900 in which the American frontier became a magnet, drawing individuals to the vast lands of the newly opened Louisiana Purchase. You will meet European immigrants, Native Americans, and African Americans as they all make their way in this new community. Based on true historical events of the era, this richly detailed fictional story follows key figures of two families as they grow and face tremendous challenges, including Indian attacks, outlaws, the growing pains of the frontier town, participation in the siege of Vicksburg during Civil War, as well as strained family dynamics. The author skillfully incorporates events of humor, character-building, pathos, love, war, crime, and spirituality in this exciting, entertaining, and informative read that you will surely enjoy.