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GUNS OF THE RANGE LAND

by Larry Payne

Sheriff Jake Hollister has no idea what to expect when Samantha Thorn, new owner of the Bar K, steps off the Bannock stagecoach.  The daughter of a Kansas cattle baron, she is used to having a lot of ranch and a lot of cattle, and she doesn't have enough of either.  When Samantha and her gunfighter brother, Mac Prescott, attempt to push an unwilling Anson Decker into selling his land, Decker pushes back.  He brings in his own muscle, notorious gunman Reed McNally, and things quickly begin to heat up.

Jake Hollister does all he can to stay out of the dispute and allow the feuding ranchers to come to terms on their own but when his integrity as Sheriff gets brought into question and bodies begin to drop, he's left with no choice but to intervene.  Only, it might already be too late and the range war he hopes to prevent may just be too much for Jake to handle.  He has to enlist the aid of some old friends to help regain peace and order.  Can they succeed, or will the range land and the streets of Bannock be turned red?

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EXPIATION

by Jeffrey Paolano

Elam, a young drifter plagued with the conflictions of his past, a past filled with the hardship of poverty, the abuse at the hands of his father and the saintly Christianity of his mother, is entrusted to lead cattle from Texas to New Mexico.

While driving his herd across the desert, Elam encounters a lone wanderer named Lauden.  He invites the stranger into his camp, accepts the man's offer of assistance and the two become traveling companions on their quest to deliver the cattle to its destination.  Soon, Elam realizes that there's something off with his new friend.  Though handy and loyal, Lauden seems to have a darker side to him.

When the two herdsmen chance upon an abandoned and gruesomely injured Apache child on the frontier, everything they think to be true about right or wrong and the inherent goodness of humanity as a whole is put into question.  Elam must weigh the beliefs of the helpless mother he abandoned against the reality of the hateful world he lives in.  Lauden must choose to either act on or suppress the sociopathic tendencies within himself.  Together, they have to decide how far they're willing to go to save an innocent boy condemned only because of his heritage.

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