If you’re anything like us, then you’re probably looking for some more dramatic and juicy Western stories to dive into after finishing season one of HBO’s Westworld. Luckily, there’s a lot out there to choose from. In fact, Robert Knott continues with his New York Times bestselling Western series with Robert B. Parker’s Revelation.
Augustus Noble Driggs and a pack of cold-blooded convicts are suddenly on the loose—and it’s up to any and all territorial lawmen, including Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, to capture the fugitives and rescue the woman kidnapped during their escape. But nothing is ever quite what it seems with the ever-elusive Driggs. Finally free, he’s quickly on his own furious hunt for a hidden cache of gold and jewels—and for the men who betrayed him and left him for dead.
Listen to an excerpt ROBERT B. PARKER’s REVELATION.
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Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States and then put his skills to the test as a soldier in the frontier army. Now he has settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery—and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and the neighboring Munson family.
Listen to an excerpt MATAGORDA
Blue, the de facto mayor of Hard Times, a town in the Dakota Territories, takes in two survivors of the carnage—a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably—and makes them his provisional family. Blue begins to rebuild Hard Times, welcoming new settlers, while Molly waits with vengeance in her heart for the return of the outlaw.
Listen to an excerpt WELCOME TO HARD TIMES
When tragedy strikes Cash McLendon, his instinct for survival kicks in; he flees Saint Louis. With nothing to lose, McLendon attempts to reconcile with an old flame—a woman he was nearly engaged to but put aside in exchange for the life now in shambles—in a small mining town in the Arizona Territory. But he can’t outrun his past forever…
Listen to an excerpt GLORIOUS
The year is 1878, peak of the Texas cattle trade, and the place is Dodge City, Kansas. Violence is random and routine, but when the burned body of a mixed-blood boy named Johnnie Sanders is discovered, his death shocks a part-time policeman named Wyatt Earp. And it is a matter of strangely personal importance to Doc Holliday, the frail twenty-six-year-old dentist who has just opened an office at No. 24, Dodge House.
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