The Loner Series by Sheldon B. Cole
The Loner #17
The Loner 17
Sheldon B. Cole
Trouble was brewing between the cattlemen and the railroaders, and though Blake Durant wanted no part in it, Fate had other ideas. For one thing, Durant's horse had been stolen from him, and he wasn't about to leave town until he had Sundown back. For another, the railroaders had taken his guns when they took him prisoner.Now he was unarmed and on the run for a murder he didn't commit. The only way to prove his innocence, and stop a range-war, was to find the real killer, and the surprising reason behind his actions.But with the entire countryside against him, that was going to be easier said that done. He could stay and do what he could to clear himself, or he could run.For Blake Durant, there was no other option ... no middle trail he could take!
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The Loner #18
The Loner 18
Sheldon B. Cole
Blake Durant was one of the crew driving Jay Hurwood's cattle to the railhead at Gabriel. The trail had been hard, but nothing more than he'd expected. Then two murders were committed, right out on the open prairie ... and suddenly everyone became a suspect.Because there hadn't been any love lost between Blake and Joe Sowarth, Joe's brother, Lanny, was convinced that Blake was the killer, and figured to even the score any way he could. But there was more going on around Hurwood's trail drive than anyone could imagine, and the only way Blake could clear his name was by finding the real killer ... and his sinister motive!
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The Loner #19
The Loner 19
Sheldon B. Cole
When they came charging at him with guns blazing, Blake Durant had no choice but to kill the two young men he'd never seen before. When the gun smoke cleared, he took the bodies in to nearby Lodge Creek, figuring to report what had happened and find out why they'd been so set on killing him.Instead, Blake found himself accused of murder and quickly thrown into jail.The townsfolk reckoned he was part of an outlaw gang that had raided the town a few days earlier, and they wasted no time in sentencing him to hang.Help came from an unlikely source ... and as the town burned around him, Blake fled with a strange assortment of companions—the town mayor, whose son had been one of the men Blake had shot down, the mayor's daughter Jennifer, whose whole life had been overshadowed by her bullying father, a hapless bank manager who wasn't sure he could find enough backbone to fight the outlaws when they came in pursuit ... and the town marshal, who had sworn to make...
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The Loner #22
The Loner 21
Sheldon B. Cole
When Blake Durant rode into town that day, two men had already been shot dead. Within a matter of hours, a bunch of back-shooters tried to turn Durant into victim number three. They wrongly assumed he was in cahoots with a man called Moriarty, who planned to bring sheep into what had always been cattle country. But there was more to the town's trouble than a building range war.The Farrar clan, old Carver and his worthless sons Chris and Lom, planned to claim the territory for themselves, and they'd started with the cold-blooded murder of their neighbors, Ord Mann and his son Lee.That left Ord's daughter, Sally, all by herself ... and both Carver and Chris had plans for that pretty little filly.But something about Sally reminded Durant of the woman he'd loved and lost, and that made him want to protect her at any cost. Though he stood accused of murder himself, he decided to stick around until every last threat was neutralized.
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The Loner #23
The Loner 22
Sheldon B. Cole
The town of Red Bend waited in fear.Mace Orde and his three hell-raising sons were coming to in settle some old scores, and not a man there seemed likely to stand up to them ... except Marshal Ben Karpel.Still, there wasn't much the ageing marshal could do against such ruthless killers. His beautiful daughter, Dell, was willing to pick up a gun and fight alongside him, but it wasn't until Blake Durant rode in that they really stood a chance of winning.When the marshal arrested Mace Orde, he knew they'd never hold him long enough for the circuit judge to get there and try him for murder. Orde's sons would bust him out just as soon as they could.That left only one option – to transport him across the desert to the larger town of Creede, where they had deputies who could guard him until the trial-date was set.All they had to do now – Durant, an ageing lawman and his daughter – was get Orde there in one piece, before his sons could...
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The Loner #23
The Loner 23
Sheldon B. Cole
On the surface, the range up ahead seemed quiet and peaceful, but it was anything but.Jake Newell and his three shiftless sons were planning the biggest rustling job of their lives.Bart Lomax was forcing the smaller ranchers off their land by any means possible because he wanted it all.Les Ducane's wife had been raped and murdered, and her killer was still at large.And when Blake Durant found himself accused of the rape and murder, an old rival from the past seized the chance to find out once and for all which of them was faster with a gun ...After that there was only one certainty. That everything was about to blow sky high.
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