Books published by Wolfpack Publishing

National award winning western and historical novelist Gary McCarthy brings together the cast from two of his most popular and long running series - The Horsemen and The Derby Man.Several years have passed since Ruff, Dixie and Houston Ballou fled Civil War-ravaged Tennessee with two of their great thoroughbred stallions and a handful of mares. The displaced Ballou family has been looking for a place to build a horse ranch and racetrack when a series of events take them to the beautiful Prescott Valley, home of Fort Whipple and Arizona's new Territorial capital.In a blinding snowstorm, Darby Buckingham is racing from Santa Fe to Prescott in order to help his longtime love, Miss Dolly. Almost at his destination he helplessly rages at his drunken stagecoach driver to slow down, but the coach overturns and leaves him in desperate circumstances until the Ballou riders and their thoroughbreds appear.And so begins a friendship and adventure in Prescott that will change the lives of these famous characters.

THE ACTION MOVES ALONG WITH THE SPEED OF A RUNAWAY TRAIN IN BOOK EIGHT OF THE BIKER SERIES. When Detective Heinz Calloway's seventeen-year-old daughter runs off with spiritual leader Scipio, Josh has no choice but to go after her. Josh talks to terrified God's Breath Survivors who fear reprisals. God's Breath is ruthless in persecuting apostates. Josh gains a new techie, rapper and hacker Ninja Preston, who comes with his own problems. He's on the run from St. Louis gangster John Torreo, for outing Torreo's son as a woman abuser and drug dealer.Leaving Ninja at his home to take care of Fig, Josh and Calloway travel to Colorado and hook up with Randall Kleiser, the "Black Widower," who has helped Josh in the past. The heavily fortified God's Breath compound lies just below the Continental Divide. Attempting to reach the camp from the back side, Josh falls and is captured by Gladiator, Scipio's enforcer, and forced to fight for his life...

With former Pinkerton detective Sarah Watson firmly established as Wells Fargo Detective John Pope's partner, the two are dispatched to Wyoming Territory to investigate a series of stage and train robberies.The first problem is: one gang, or two? Using cutting edge criminology for 1882, the detectives brave blizzards to solve the cases and bring the outlaws to justice - some are brought in on the saddle, some over the saddle. Before the two detectives can be recalled, the office where they are assigned is robbed and several are murdered.Now, it's personal.A suspect begins to materialize, he is Kid Taos. He's a fast gun fixated on becoming a dime novel hero, but he might have just met his match. Pope and a pair of .44's are blocking the Kid's path to fame - it's either a pine box or a noose.

They said it was a tale told by a fool.When young Jonah Cord met aged gunman Gabriel Brannigan he buckled up for a wild ride. One of them had seen it all and the other was about to. And all it took was an apple pie, a bottle of whiskey and strong cigar for Jonah to hear about Gabriel's legendary trials out West.Jonah follows his now mentor Gabriel Brannigan on his journey through Western history. From the Rough Riders in Cuba to the Japanese shores of Okinawa, the pair parallel their journeys as they both follow a route full of danger and adventure.Some old guns just won't settle by the fireside and ride peaceably into the sunset.

2017 WILL ROGERS MEDALLION AWARD WINNERUnable to come to terms with a family tragedy in Virginia, Caleb drifts westward, seeking anonymity or death. He fears nothing, since he has already lost everything. He learns to fight and kill and is untouched by the result. For Caleb, there is no retribution, no penalty, no tomorrow, only today. Soon after he begins gold dredging in the Stanley Basin in central Idaho, he rescues Mei Lin, a young Chinese prostitute, from a brothel and promises to find a place for her. Caleb has found a new purpose in his life - he begins to hope and to care, and Mei Lin is at the center of the change. But does he dare tell her of his love and invite her into his uncertain life?Each scarred by personal tragedy, Caleb and Mei Lin develop a love stronger than ever on their journey to the New West. This New Country includes: A Place for Mei Lin and Home to Wyoming

A young woman's terrible nightmares are a projection of a serial killer's mad murders... Prepare to meet a seductive vampire preying on the homeless, a mobster who meets his murderous match, a sexual predator who selects the wrong victim, a psychotic Santa, a tabloid ghost hunter, and a pop star who wants to live forever. And waiting for you are teenage hookers from hell, a bad girl turned good in a bad way, and a group of ghost hunters who spend a harrowing night in a very haunted house.A riveting, brand-new collection of dark crime and darker horror by Mystery Writers of America "Grand Master," Max Allan Collins.

CAN YOU ALWAYS TRUST THE MEN WHO RIDE BY YOUR SIDE?Standing by the grave of her murdered father, Sheriff Townsend, Elli swears she will bring justice upon the killers. Unfortunately, the only man who can help her is about to be hung for a crime he did not commit.Elli must free Armando Phillipe Diaz to defeat the outlaw pack led by the ruthless Texas Logan. A dangerous chase leads to a long-lost treasure and into a deadly trap. Will Elli Townsend survive and be able to fulfill her oath to her father? "If you like your westerns sprinkled with gunplay, revenge, romance and unlikely allies; this is the book for you." - Rod Timanus

Everything depends on what hidden truths the wild Texas winds reveal. Dru Beltrain is on the hunt for the men who raped and murdered his wife. Texas drovers, part of the crew led by his friend and mentor Matt Latham, have robbed him of the woman he loves and are now a threat to his stepson Cass, who's seeking his own revenge against the men who killed his mother. Torn by a thirst for vengeance and the need to find Cass, Beltrain aligns himself with Latham's daughter Kate, a strong-willed woman who will protect her father at all costs. As the unlikely pair heads for Wichita, passion flares hot between them. When they reach Wichita, they part company despite their attraction. Dru's revenge still drives him to find Latham and his crew, and Kate is determined to help her powerful father build a railroad spur. And then, one by one, Matt Latham's men begin to die in a series of brutal killings.

GUNTHER RIDES AGAIN.A young Johann Gunther becomes a Lawman in Paris, Texas. Then he joins the army, fights in Cuba, The Philippines and China. But 23 years later he must return to Paris, Texas yet again and fight an international gang war, vendetta, and save his old French police chief while attempting to save the whole city from a fiery destruction. "When you put on that badge, remember this. Every country has its medieval times. Murders, rapes, robberies, crime, war, slavery and horrors. When you put on that badge, you take all this on. These are America's medieval times..." - Chief Gustav Henri

Nomadic cowboys, drifters, troublemakers - Snake and Dog-man have heard it all, but they are more than that, they're strong, determined, and never back down from a fight.Continuing their trek to California by guiding a freight wagon train to Tucson, Arizona Territory Snake and Dog-man run into trouble when they meet a family along the way. From there, the trouble never stops, and gun fights, injuries, and death ensue. Once in Gila Bend, Dog-man learned that steamboats ran between Yuma, Arizona Territory and Guaymas, Mexico. Since it was on the way to California, they made the ride to Yuma, only to find themselves in more trouble.The drifters knew they had to continue their trek to California - it was then they realized it was the open road, the unknown over the horizon that was most important to them.

FROM HORSE SHOWING IN GEORGIA TO RIDING THE RANGE IN TEXAS - A TALE OF COURAGE AND FINDING FAITH. Carli Jameson is used to being on her own - abandoned by her mother as an infant - all she's ever wanted is to feel like she belongs. She has had no choice except to be strong and independent, but now, can she learn to trust God to be her partner?Georgia girl, Carli Jameson, inherits a Texas cattle ranch from grandparents she never knew. After much thought, she makes the courageous decision to pack up her life and move to Texas to run the ranch. She forges ahead into a new life filled with uncertainty and along the way discovers a ranching community that becomes the family she never had. Can a fresh start erase the troubles of her past?

FREEDOM NEVER COMES WITHOUT A PRICE.Nicknamed Runaway for his numerous escapes, a young slave dreams of freedom. Again and again he runs, only to be enslaved once more. Unable to stand more punishment, he commits the ultimate sin - he kills a white overseer. Now, it's run or hang. Amid death and sacrifice, Runaway heads North. He finds a station of the Underground Railroad which leads him to meet the Coopers, a special family, who take him in and give him his first true home. But danger follows and moving slaves to freedom becomes more difficult.

AN OFF-THE-WALL ROMP AND OTHER EXHILARATING CRIME STORIES. Recent almost-college-grad Fred Kitchen and his eccentric six-foot-four pal, Wheaty, pay off a poker debt with a prank - showing their stuff in the then-current fad of streaking. Soon they are under arrest and in jail, killing time by playing cards with a couple of hardened criminals, unwittingly racking up a new debt...one that can only be paid off by participating in a bank robbery during a small-town festival. Written as a tribute to the comic novels of his mentor Donald E. Westlake, Shoot the Moon is a fast, funny crime novel written early in his career by Max Allan Collins.

"What started as a visit to the families of the women turned into a fight with renegade Apsaalooke warriors. But that was just the beginning of the battles ... After a friendly encounter with the Yapudttka Ute, their journey would take them into the middle of a fight between the Mouache Ute and an expedition of gold hungry Spaniards. The prospectors traveled across the Southern tier of the land known as New Spain in search of the seven cities of Cibola--the same cities of gold once sought by Coronado--now thought to be in the headwaters of a river in the Sawatch Mountains of the Rockies. When the leader of the Spaniards tries to enslave the band of Utes to dig for gold, it starts a bloody battle. But when Gabe and company learn about captives and the treatment of them as slaves that does not sit well with Ezra who will fight any form of slavery wherever it is found. Blood will fill the sluice boxes and rivers of the Sawatch Range before this conflict is over!" --]cPage 4 of cover.

ONE-EYED COFFIN JACK IS A DEADLY MAN.Coffin Jack is a dark souled assassin that does not possess much; he lives alone with only feral cats for company in his isolated shack in the mountains and barely ventures down to civilization except when he gets the call.Joined by his now partner, Lowell Devereux - a naive reporter who was unceremoniously thrown into the path of Coffin Jack while seeking uplifting stories to inspire the readers back east - the two are out prove all that they are capable of. Their wild journey takes them across country to confront a series of deadly challenges and plunge into an esoteric nightmare that transforms the pair. From there they are taken on a trail through the darker side of the Old West where factions differ and it is a new enemy they must face...A tongue-in-cheek Western with all the blood and thrills of a regular rough ride, or as Coffin Jack might say, "Ya gotta own a pinch of salt for this one."Coffin Jack: A Western Duo includes - Deathdealer and Gravedigger.

From New York Times bestselling author Kat Martin comes an inspiring and romantic duo - two heartwarming, feel-good stories.Teddy Winters was eight years old that Christmas, too young to understand all the undercurrents swirling around him in the tiny Michigan town of Dreyerville. He wasn't able to value that Christmas for the miracle it truly was. Teddy only knew he wanted to buy the beautiful Victorian clock in the window of Tremont Antiques as a gift for his grandmother, Lottie Sparks, a woman desperate to find him a home before her rapidly progressing Alzheimer's left him an orphan. Everything changes for Teddy that year when he meets Sylvia Winters and Joe Dixon."The perfect stocking stuffer for the romance reader on your holiday list." - Kristin Hannah, author of The NightingaleTen years after running away and eloping with her high school boyfriend, Marly Hanson returns to her hometown at the request of her daughter, Katie, who has recently been treated for brain cancer. Living next door to Marly's mother, Winnie, is handsome sheriff and widower Reed Bennett, and his son, Ham. Ham and Katie become fast friends, while their parents find their attraction to one another going deeper than mere friendship. But Marly's time in Dreyerville is limited and risking her heart isn't something she's willing to do. Will they all get the happy ending they deserve?"Kat Martin has the uncanny and delicate ability to pluck the heartstrings of the reader, and she's done it again with pitch-perfect tone." - Patti Callahan Henry, author of The Perfect Love Song

"Javanna Caldwell, a widow, is an advertising executive in Chicago. Luke Bryant, now two years divorced, is a Christian filmmaker in New Orleans. When an unfortunate series of events occurs, they are both forced to return to their roots in White Sulphur Springs, Montana. Luke has maintained his faith throughout his profession, but after the death of her husband, Javanna lost her faith. Following an accident in a blizzard, Javanna becomes desperate and turns to the God she abandoned for help. With circumstances still out of their control, Javanna and Luke renew a life-time friendship that begins to blossom into something more. Along the way, she from Chicago and he from New Orleans, recognize the joys and benefits of small-town America"--

BRODIE PIKE IS ONE AGAINST MANY - THE ODDS ARE NOT IN HIS FAVOR. Brodie Pike knew he shouldn't get involved. It would somehow turn out bad, as seemed to happen too often to him, but he couldn't watch four gunmen bully a small-time rancher. The next day, the man he had helped is found beaten to death. Though he knows he is responsible for Dunn's death, he refuses to help the group of small ranchers who know that the Buckskin County Cattlemen's Association will be coming for their land soon. Months later, he reads that the association has started its campaign of terror against the small ranchers. Against the odds, he decides to throw in with them, facing the association's horde of hired guns, risking his life in the bloody, violent Buckskin County war, where death is always just one bullet away.

A CORNUCOPIA OF HOLIDAY-THEMED TALES OF CRIME AND MYSTERY.Master storyteller, Max Allan Collins tells crime stories for every holiday: Christmas, Mother's Day, Memorial Day, Father's Day, Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.A Wreath for Marley adds intrigue to a traditional Christmas tale; Flowers for Bill O'Reilly infuses a Memorial Day setting with horror-movie madness; and in the Thanksgiving yarn A Bird for Becky, a sweet twelve-year-old girl turns out to be the reincarnation of a rubbed-out Chicago gangster. Also included are the short stories Mommy, a Mother's Day tale that became the bases of a cult movie; Firecracker Kill, a Fourth of July serial-killer noir that pairs a cop and a mob enforcer as heroes; and His Father's Ghost, a Halloween-meets-Father's Day study of an adopted boy's search for the killer of the father he never met.

VENGEANCE IS CALLING... When Will Simpson decides to turn outlaw, he does it up right! Robbing trains will bring him the fame and wealth he craves-and will also ensure he'll end up with the girl he loves. But his first train robbery goes awry and he makes a lifelong enemy of payroll guard Kyle Lassiter, who loses his arm in the heist. The Outlaw, Billy Starbuck, as Will calls himself now, turns his attention to the stage lines and the payrolls they carry. But he's met his match with expert stagecoach driver Simon Tyree, who is determined to deliver the payroll-along with some unexpected passengers-to safety, come hell or high water.

Includes an excerpt from Sawatch Skirmish (Stonecroft Saga Book 13).

In the period from 1865 to 1882, several of the most wanted men in America died. Or, did they?There is some historical and forensic evidence suggesting they faked their deaths, the youngest dying in 1950. Drawn together by a secret organization, they return to rescue the kidnapped daughter of one of their own.In 1883, a posse consisting of John Wilkes Booth, Capt. William Quantrill, Jesse and Frank James and Billy the Kid would be deadly. A ghost posse who rode for one last mission and returned to anonymity when they finished.

Only one man dared to challenge the Comanche war party...Caught up in a battle between the U.S. Army and a Comanche raiding party, mustang herder Linus Hudson and his two Cheyenne friends become part of a dangerous plan to rescue three captured soldiers.