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Jo Harper rides the range again with Frog Beemer, Constable Abby Drake, McGee the dog, and a host of no good owlhoots. If you love rollicking old-fashioned adventure, grab this second volume of four novella-length stories.

In 1911, when trouble comes to Willowby, Wyoming, thirteen year-old Deputy Constable Jo Harper is usually on top of it. But trouble has a way of following Jo, and strangers aren’t always what they seem.

When old friends prove to be enemies, and enemies might be friends, Jo relies on all her wits to seek justice.

And sometimes just to stay alive!

Jo Harper rides the range again with Frog Beemer, Constable Abby Drake, McGee the dog, and a host of no good owlhoots. If you love rollicking old-fashioned adventure, grab this second volume of four novella-length stories.

“Richard Prosch’s series about young Jo Harper and her friends, set in early 20th century Wyoming, just keeps getting better and better.” — James J. Griffin, author of the Lone Star Ranger series

“A part Mark Twain, part Rooster Cogburn, a dose of H.G. Wells…” —Wayne D. Dundee

From the PROTECT Facebook page: We believe that our first and most sacred obligation as parents, citizens and members of the human species is the protection of children.

Happy to have a story included in a great new anthology.

55 Stories to benefit Protect, the political lobby of the National Association to Protect Children, whose victories include the Circle of Trust act and the HERO Corps, which hires wounded veterans to assist law enforcement in hunting online predators.

Contributors include Andrew Vachss, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison®, David Morrell, Laird Barron, Linda Rodriguez, Charles de Lint, Hilary Davidson, Joe R. Lansdale, Joelle Charbonneau, Reed Farrel Coleman, SJ Rozan, and Alison Arngrim. 600 pages of fiction of all genres, poems and art, essays and memoirs, to fund one cause: to protect children from abuse and exploitation of all kinds. 100% of proceeds goes to PROTECT.

Learn more about it, and see the Table of Contents here.

Double Shot of Blues

Here come two pulse-pounding stories of betrayal, revenge, and murder, from the acclaimed collection Meadows Ford Blues.

Young Tom Olsen is proud of the Marlin .22 hanging beneath his dad’s cowboy gun in the Model-T truck, proud to help the men in his rural community with a day’s work. But when the time comes to confront a dark secret, will Tom measure up in the eyes of an older friend?

Dr. Dale Martin was living the life. Nice car, nice clothes. Then she came back. The one who made him look and feel like a fool. Not this time. This time there’ll be some closure. After all…it’s not like he’s crazy.

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Branham’s Due

Holt County, Nebraska, 1881. Deputy Sheriff Whit Branham sets out alone to bring in a scurvy killer, but will surprise alone be an advantage? Armed with his trusty Stevens 10-gauge and some hard-won experience, even Branham isn’t above giving the devil his due.
Twenty minutes of high adventure on the Holt County, Nebraska plains. Narrated by the impeccable Ryle Smith, and available through Audible at Amazon or iTunes.