J. A Johnstone

In the heart of West Texas an ocean of troubles has come ashore and the Loner is adrift in a sea of hungry sharks. They came from the sea: a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother A former pirate named Black Terrance Malone, who has arrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it would be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening,...

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.

When Conrad Browning's wife disappears in the untamed frontier, Conrad finds himself assuming the identity of his famous gunslinging father, Frank Morgan, to find her. But his hopes of rescuing Rebel are swiftly shattered -- and now he's burning for vengeance, the old-fashioned way. So he fakes his own death and starts calling himself The Loner, becoming the deadliest gunfighter this side of his own father -- ready to settle the score in blood and...

The Loner strides sets out for another bloody showdown with the outlaws responsible for his wife's violent and senseless murder and discovers his true enemy was far closer than he thought... After Conrad Browning, known as The Loner, takes down the men who killed his beloved wife, he hightails it to New Mexico to visit her grave. There, he gets the surprise of his life: His ex-fiancée, Pamela Tarleton, backed up by a vicious gang of gunmen. Turns...

"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns. Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred grounds. But...

"For generations, the Jensens have struggled to build their home, their land, and their dreams. But now the family is forced to fight fire with fire, bullet by bullet, blood for blood. For Smoke and his daughter Denny, life on the Sugarloaf Ranch is more valuable than all the gold in the world. Which works out fine, since all the gold mines in Big Rock were squeezed dry years ago. Even so, that won't stop a pair of businessmen from the East from...

"In this exciting new series, bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone pay homage to America's trail-hardened backwoodsmen who, like a fine grain whiskey, only get better with age. In his mountain-man days, Elwood "Firestick" McQueen was practically a living legend. His hunting, tracking, and trapping skills were known far and wide. But it was his deadly accuracy with a rifle that earned him the Indian name "Firestick." His...

"Settling the American West required true grit, fortitude, and when necessary, shedding blood. It also required men like Preacher and MacCallister to enforce peace in a land where the law was scarce-and justice was delivered from the barrel of a gun. Wagon trains carrying immigrants along the Oregon Trail are falling prey to outlaws. Most families surrender their valuables and goods peacefully, but anybody brave enough to resist gets a bullet. The...

"A village is destroyed. A vengeance is born. And one man blazes a trail to hell and back to pay the devils their due-in bullets and blood. They call him Preacher. It starts as a happy reunion between Preacher and his fellow trappers in a peaceful Indian village. But it ends swiftly in death and destruction when a rival tribe attacks the village, slaughters some of Preacher's Crow and mountain man friends, and carries off the women and children as...

The latest action-packed installment in the national bestselling Western authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone's long-running Mountain Man historical series. JOHNSTONE COUNTRY. HUNT OR BE HUNTED. The bear seems harmless-at first. Just a lost and confused grizzly poking around Big Rock. Then the killings begin. A horse wrangler is mangled. A rancher mauled. Then a bartender in the heart of town is found clawed to a bloody pulp. Now...