The culminating novel in the critically acclaimed Seth Strummer series, this is the bittersweet tale of a man who must break free from his past before he can break even. In this superbly detailed frontier novel featuring Taxas outlaw Seth Strummer, our hero at last achieves a humble form of justice that allows him to break with his past. When Seth falls in love with Hekuba Free, the sister of Joaquin's new bride, he hides their love from his wife while flaunting it in town. It's a deadly game of retribution as Seth must face down sheriff Joaquin in a final battle between two old adversaries.
Investigating a murder in a family too much like his own, El Paso Homicide Detective Devon Gray walks a tightrope between protecting his kin and upholding the law. When his ex-con brother is implicated in the case, Devon strives to keep silent about his brother’s complicity while seeking the truth. Award-winning author Elizabeth Fackler deftly portrays the two families opposed across the field of one detective’s love and honor.
Lily Cassidy’s childhood happiness is shattered when her father is murdered by political opponents. Powerless to act against her father’s killer, she consents to a loveless marriage with Emmett Moss in exchange for his promise of vengeance. What follows this bitter deal leaves Lily standing on her own as the matriarch of a legend. When Emmett’s niece arrives at his ranch, the lady-like Claire presents a cool contrast to tomboy Lily. Known for her common sense more than her beauty, Lily forges a friendship with the delicate Claire that outlasts everything in their lives except the land itself. Set in New Mexico Territory in the 1870s, Texas Lily is the story of Lily’s courage and fortitude to save her family, Claire’s love of an outlaw that sends her into and out of madness, and the profoundly intertwined fates of their offspring.
When reporter Frank James connects a gun found at the bottom of a lake with the murder, twenty years earlier, of Shady Grove's wealthiest family, he comes to believe that the killer is still living in Shady Grove under an assumed identity
After countless murders, hired gunman Seth Strummar retires to the Arizona Territory, determined to provide a better life for his family, but when the gorgeous and diabolical Lila Keats arrives in town to settle an old score with Strummar, the fragile peace of his new life is destroyed. Reissue.
Set on the vast plains of southeastern New Mexico in the Depression of the 1930s, "My Eyes Have A Cold Nose" sculpts an intense adventure as a blind woman courageously follows her seeing-eye dog to help a boy from the wild side who has no one else in his corner.
In this fictionalized account of a true crime, drifter Buck Powell poses as a policeman to take Nathan Wheeler from a small town's high school. When Amy Sterling learns that her boyfriend has been kidnapped, she immediately suspects Zeb Mulroney, Buck's cousin. Although the police discount her suspicion, her mother Lucinda asks the tenant of their garage apartment, Devon Gray, a retired homicide detective from Texas, to help them search for Buck. Romantically involved with Lucinda, Devon agrees to humor Amy to keep her from idle worry. The three of them set off in his old truck on an all-night manhunt into the mountains. During the night, Devon is challenged by Amy's youth and his love for Lucinda to tackle the problem more gently than he normally would. Achieving partial success, he takes the women home and sets off alone to finish the job. Amy, haunted by the thought of Nathan's suffering, arranges a meeting with Zeb. She takes Devon's gun, intending to use it to discover the truth about Nathan's fate, but a third party intervenes, proving we are all connected and life is an endless river that never stops pulling us into the future.Elizabeth Fackler is the author of novels, short stories, and poetry. Sunstone Press has recently reissued her classic novel on the Lincoln County War: Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato. Western Writers of America called it "a magnificent achievement in historical fiction." She lives with her husband, Michael, and their two dogs, Pecos and Mitchum, i Capitan, New Mexico.
Visiting newspaperman Frank James believes that his old friend and lover, Arly Walbridge, was murdered and his search in a small Texas town leads to a variety of suspects, including a mysterious, attractive woman living in Arly's home
Devon faces a trek through guilt and complicity when the woman with whom he is having an affair is murdered. The Chief of Police gropes to find a suspect, a task made more difficult by the fact that he also had been having an affair with the victim.
Memoir of a Michigan farm girl who becomes a writer by surviving her dysfunctional family's migration to California in the 1960s and a pattern of destructive relationships that teach her to trust her own perceptions" --
Gleaned from her journals, this memoir is a chronological tale of an acolyte author pitting herself against the grist wheel of the international conglomerate the publishing industry became midstream in her career. She delved deeply into her subconscious where spirits guided her waking work, helping her write twelve novels in the course of this time in which she also shuffled literary agents, lost her personal mentor and reader, nurtured her husband, dealt with the repercussions of her dysfunctional family, and persisted through the onerous toil of publishing her work. The author of eighteen novels, short stories and poems, she has published a previous memoir, Grand River Highway: One Woman's Journey to Autonomy (a finalist in the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards of 2016) which shares her formative years leading her to become a writer.
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