Elizabeth Jernigan

Johnstone Country. Frontier spirit lives here. THE GREATEST WESTERN WRITER OF THE 21ST CENTURY Smoke Jensen-A One Man Judge and Jury They struck in a pack, in the dead of night. They had crept in like thieves, like the cowards they were... But it wasn't robbery they had in mind. It Was Something Much Darker... Smoke Jensen was buying cattle a hundred miles away from his Colorado ranch when he got the news. Drawing two horses from the remuda,...

It didn't matter that the warrant was years old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges. A Texas bounty hunter named Bill Pike believed he could still collect a $10,000 reward for killing Jensen - and he intended to do just that. But when Pike and his men came calling, Jensen was nowhere to be found. So they took the next best thing - Smoke's woman - left behind a ransom note, and headed up into the Rocky Mountains. Now, Smoke is going...

J. A. Johnstone-niece and former writing partner of the late Western legend William W. Johnstone-carries on her uncle's legacy with this second book from her Loner series. After his wife is murdered, Conrad "Kid Morgan" Browning hunts down the men responsible- then visits his wife's grave in New Mexico. There, he is shocked to discover his ex-fiancée waiting for him-along with armed backup.

William W. Johnstone's vivid, uncompromising novels stand as violent portraits of the rugged American frontiersman and the forces that forged him. In this powerful novel, Johnstone tells the story of a young Missourian forced by fate and violence into lawlessness—where he sees a chance to right the wrong that shattered his family and his soul...

Smoke Jensen is a young man raised on loss and bitterness, nurtured by a mountain man named Preacher.

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Trapped amid the violence of a world plunging headlong toward apocalypse, a group of wanderers including a young monk with magical powers, a woman scarred by tragedy, a young man trained by elves, and a centaur, journey to the mountain of Aida to take on an evil demon whose dark forces threaten to destroy the world.

Down on his luck, Smoke Jensen contracts to deliver 3000 head of cattle. Then a renegade Cheyenne warrior uses an early winter blizzard to attack Smoke and his crew. Too bad it's only the first step in journey built to test Smoke's mettle, because some people are hunting a payday of their own--for killing Smoke Jensen. Soon the streets of Laramie will run with blood.

Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent parties for Arkham's social elite, conjuring arcane illusions which blur the boundaries between nightmare and reality. Only slowly does Alden come to suspect that Balthazarr's...

Learning that one of the four Kingly Hallows of Ireland is in Chicago, private investigator Mick Oberon works to prevent the legendary spear from falling into the wrong hands, including factions of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.