J. A Johnstone

He came West in search of the truth. Out here, the truth is more than enough to get you killed. . . Hunter And The Hunted Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own--to take this city slicker...

"When The Loner is hired to go undercover as a train robber to discover what happened to Katherine Lupo's father--an outlaw who was murdered after being busted out of jail--he comes face to face with a cold-blooded master criminal who deserves to be put six feet under"--

"Most people had no idea that successful young businessman Conrad Browning was the son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan. And that was a secret he planned to keep - until his beautiful wife, Rebel, was kidnapped by a group of deadly bandits. Liek father (deadly), like son (deadlier) ... In the heart of West Texas an ocean of troubles has come ashore, and the Loner is adrift in a sea of hungry sharks. A former ship captain, Owen Starbird has inherited...

The Loner didn't just bust out of jail, he busted out twice. The third time might be the charm or a bullet in the belly. He didn't want much just the chance to drift out of Texas into New Mexico Territory. That's when the Loner discovered there was a price on his head. A victim of mistaken identity, he broke out of Hell Gate Prison a few years back. Now, he's behind bars again, until a sheriff's love-struck daughter decides to come to his aid and...

"Using an old cannon that once belonged to Napoleon's army, an outlaw gang has been bringing trains to a screeching halt and then robbing them. Now Edward Sheffield, one of the owners of the railroad, wants to hire Kid Morgan, the man known as The Loner, to wipe the gang off the map. Morgan isn't interested--even when Sheffield's hot-blooded wife tries to seduce him into going after the gang's leader, Gideon Black, a renegade ex-colonel-turned-outlaw....

In Utah, the Loner finds religion--behind the barrel of a gun . . . The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning. On his way across the wide, tall Utah Territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding--and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down. But there are two sides to every story--and the ones you don't hear are the ones that can get you killed. The runaway bride has a little...

"Jamie MacCallister remembers the Alamo--especially one brave frontiersman who died fighting there. Now the fallen veteran's granddaughter needs Jamie's help. She's found a letter written by her grandfather with a map to the spot where Alamo legend Jim Bowie supposedly hid a fortune in silver and gold. Jamie never believed the story. Countless treasure hunters had scoured the area and come up empty-handed. But his friend's granddaughter is convinced...

Building a branch takes heart and grit, and Smoke and Sally Jensen are capable of meeting the challenges of the land. When Smoke learns his old friend Preacher has been ambushed by outlaws, he saddles up and hits the vengeance trail with fellow mountain men Audie and Nighthawk. The town of Desolation Creek in Montana Territory has been taken over by Vernon "Venom" McFadden and his men, harassing terrified homesteaders and townfolk to get his hands...

"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jail mates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time - on a brutal prison chain gang... Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic...