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On sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. THE HELLBOUND MAN Jim Benton had come to think of himself as the hellbound man because he seemed to be headed in that direction. But there were some interesting stops along the way. One such stop was a lawless little town called Rustler's Roost in honor of some charming young men who seemed to think other men's cattle, horses and women were theirs for the taking. But Benton had them worried. He didn't seem afraid of them and when somebody shot at him he shot back – with alarming accuracy. They were afraid somebody had sent for him to put a stop...

On Sale for a limited time! Normally priced at $7.99! THE SIX-GUNNER The three seedy outlaws followed Decker’s trail through the rocky, cactus-spiked hills to a lone cottonwood on the rim of a steep-sided ravine. They found a note on the trunk of the cottonwood. “You claim you can read a little, Lick,” Snot Wagner said to his brother. “See what it says.” Lick Wagner rode close enough to reach the note from the saddle. He grinned as he read it. “It says, ‘Foller me, boys. I went thataway.’ There’s a arrow on it that was pointin’ straight toward that ravine before I got it...

Pre-release pricing! Regular price will be $7.99! REBEL WITH A GUN He was fifteen when the Civil War started, nineteen when it ended. His parents were dead by then, their farm sold for the taxes. The girl he loved had married a boy he hated. Nothing seemed right. So he headed for Texas with a disreputable old snake oil peddler and a beautiful blonde with a jealous husband and a dangerous secret that could get them all killed. Even though he had ridden with Quantrill and Bloody Bill, he was not like the others. Many of them were not the only bushwhackers who flourished during the war. Men ...

On Sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. RIDING FOR REVENGE Another wandering tale of revenge in the Old West begins with the brutal murder of Frank and Pearl Ryden and the wounding of their only son on the lonely Kansas prairie. They had come west after the Civil War looking for peace and safety and a distant farm a mysterious stranger had sold them a deed to. Another mysterious stranger—or was it the same one?—saved young Jim Ryden’s life and taught him how to shoot as well as helped him track the killers all over the West—when he wasn’t too busy making war on a renegade ...

Pre-release pricing for a limited time! Regularly $7.99 DEAD MAN RIDING In this Eastwoodish western, no one in that troubled part of Texas had ever heard of anyone named Fanton, but that was the name prodigal brother Hawk Spradlin whispered just before he pulled his gun on a quiet, grim stranger and got himself killed. It happened one evening just before dark in Hoot Spradlin’s dugout store and saloon. The skinflint rancher was saving his coal oil until full darkness forced him to light a lamp, and he could not see the stranger clearly. But he got the drop on the tall man from behind with...

On sale for a limited time! Normally $7.99! THE BUSHWHACKERS Heck Martin’s motto was simple. If they left him alone, he would leave them alone. Heck Martin was not pro-Union, like his father and brother. He had joined up with Quantrill to harass the bluebellies and other Union feds that thought they could tell others what they should be doing. But after the massacre at Lawrence, Kansas, he wanted nothing to do with Quantrill and his gang. Thirteen other hard-bitten veterans had followed him, had joined with him, but soon grew to hate him even more than they hated Quantrill. Then suddenly,...

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On Sale for a Limited Time!! Regularly $7.99. DEATH IN BLACK HOLSTERS They said Lorn Chambers packed death in his black holsters. But Chambers was a relic from the past, the last of the great gunfighters. All the others were dead or had hung up their guns, trying to change with the times. Chambers turned his back on the future and rode off into the western wasteland, looking for what was left of the past. What he found was some vicious killers from his own past. They had robbed and murdered his parents years before and planned to kill Chambers before he could kill them. Warning: Reading a ...

Pre-release pricing for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. THE GUNDOWN TRAIL The trail Ben Hite rode should have been called THE GUNDOWN TRAIL, because that's what it turned out to be. Two gundowners named Jeff Mitton and Steve Kibben had followed pretty much the same trail not long before. But where they turned back, Ben Hite rode on into wilder, more dangerous country, with a gang of murderous outlaws on his trail and more everywhere he went. Not to mention a band of renegade Apaches who thought Hite had killed the bloodthirsty chief's young son and kidnapped the beautiful Mexican spitfire ...

Pre-release pricing. Limited time only! Regularly $7.99. BRANDON’S LAW Brandon’s law was simple. Leave him alone. But Ram Salter’s men couldn’t leave him alone. They had orders from their boss to run him out of the country or kill him. That should have been easy. There were enough of them to get the job done. But which one of them would he kill first when they went for their guns? And how many of them would he kill before they got him? There was only one way to find out. WARNING: Reading a Van Holt western may make you want to get on a horse and hunt some bad guys down in the Old ...

On Sale for a Limited Time! Regularly $7.99. THE BOUNTY HUNTERS His name was Dan Britton, but he used other names—Ben Travis and Rex Farley among them—because both lawmen and outlaws hunted him for the bounty Sam Grayson had put on his head to get even with Britton for killing his brother. Grayson was himself an outlaw and the leader of other outlaws who had joined the hunt for Britton. All of them had prices on their heads. Britton finally decided to collect some bounties himself. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s Law ...

On Sale Now! Regularly $6.99! Save 63%! Wild Desert Rose In the fall of 1874, a beautiful half-breed Indian girl named Rose Wilder shoots the most powerful man of a small town accidentally in a quarrel. Then to escape the lust and rage of the sheriff and his deputy, both related to the dead man, she sets out alone on a perilous journey that takes her to wild Texas towns and on into even wilder desert country roamed by the wildest men of the wildest time in America. Stalked by lawmen and outlaws, she meets famous gunfighters and a strange Indian who wants her to go away with him into the ...

Pre-release pricing! Regularly $7.99! MABEN The man who called himself John Parker never actually admitted that his real name was Frank Maben. And old Al Maben, the only one who would have known for sure, had been shot from the brush by an unknown killer as he sat on his front porch in his rocking chair, perhaps thinking about his dead wife and a son he hadn’t seen since before the Civil War. The local ranchers and rustlers seemed convinced that the tall two-gun stranger was in fact old Al Maben’s long-lost son. When they weren’t too busy fighting among themselves, they spent their ...

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On Sale for a limited time! Regularly $7.99. SHILOH STARK In one of the bloodiest battles of the War Between the States, he became known as Shiloh Stark by outshooting everyone else in his outfit. After the war he roamed the world in search of a peace he did not find. Ten years after the war ended, a tall man wearing dark clothes and two tied-down guns appeared in No Man’s Land, where there was no law and no peace. But Shiloh Stark was no longer looking for peace. He came prepared for war. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: A Few Dead Men Blood in the Hills Brandon’s ...

On Sale Now! Limited time! Regularly $7.99. Six-Gun Solution They called him a nester and after they killed his pa, he started calling himself Jim Nester. But what he needed was a six-gun solution. A tough, mysterious bounty hunter with a score of his own to settle helped him hunt the killers down. But Jim Nester knew that someday he would have to come back and fight the ruthless cattleman who had hired them—and the cattleman’s army of hired gunhands. More action-packed gunfighting westerns by Van Holt: - A Few Dead Men - Blood in the Hills - Brandon’s Law - Curly Bill and Ringo - ...

On sale for a limited time! Normally $6.99! THE HELLBOUNDERS Known as the Hellbounders during the Civil War, now in the 1870s the Conder gang had broken up and fallen on hard times. The old man, Ike Conder, and sons Hob and Pete were all threatening to kill each other. Ike Conder got his first, one dark rainy night when he was trying to make ends meet the only way he knew how. Ike cocked his gun and pointed it at Cindy Hayton’s pretty blond head. “Girl, if you’ve got any money, you better tell me where it is.” Hob Conder’s bearded face appeared at the small window. He smashed a ...

On Sale-Limited time only! Regularly $7.99! BLOOD IN THE HILLS The Circle 8 bunch were really just outlaws and rustlers. Their leader, Mort Dudley had a devious plan to get rid of a couple of his newly hired hands before the bunch cashed in the large herd of cattle that had fallen into their hands when they murdered the old man who owned the herd. Their trouble began when they tried to frame a quiet stranger for the old man’s murder. They didn’t know his real name or that he was a deadly gunfighter and the son of the old man they had buried in an unmarked grave. The quiet stranger drops...

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On Sale for a Limited Time! Normally $7.99. The Gundowners While Jeff Mitton is away fighting in the War Between the States, his sister Lettie disappears. When he returns home, his mother makes him promise to find her. When Jeff is bushwhacked while looking for Lettie, he is befriended by a secretive gunfighter named Steve KIbben, who is hunting some men who killed his sister. Jeff doesn’t know they are searching for the same dangerous men. Men, and beautiful women, who will stop at nothing to stay out of the clutches of the Federal agents pursuing them for spying for the South. More ...