CJ Petit Books in Order

After surviving a brutal trial, Axel is ready for a quieter future with his fiancée, Ella. But as they board a train for Denver, he realizes the danger is not finished, and trouble has a way of finding him again.

A standalone Western where a relentless chase is made harder by harsh weather and hard country. As the pursuit tightens, both sides are tested by exhaustion, fear, and the kind of decisions you cannot undo.

A standalone Western centered on Travis as he tries to build a future without letting the past run his life. When new trouble echoes old grudges, he is pushed toward choices that will define who he becomes.

Axel Nielsen's childhood is shattered when his family is murdered and their farm is burned to the ground. Swearing vengeance, he grows into a man people hire to handle dangerous problems, even as his past keeps pulling him toward violence.

When Drew Campbell ages out of St. Thomas Home for Boys, he believes his training as a blacksmith's apprentice will be enough to start over. With jobs scarce, he takes what he can get, and ends up on the railroad where danger rides every day.

Joe Beck and Faith travel with a wagon train across the wide Laramie Plains, where distance and exhaustion grind people down. As tensions rise, keeping the group together becomes as important as keeping it moving west.

Idaho City is eager for spring, but warmer weather also brings a rush of new gold hunters and fresh trouble. Joe and Sheriff Fulmer brace for the season, knowing the town's peace will be tested from the first thaw.

Clay County Sheriff Rusty Price shadows two killers through the night, closing the distance while keeping out of sight. Planning to strike when they bed down, he finds that bringing men to justice is never as clean as he wants it to be.

A counterfeit bill in Carson City draws the attention of the Secret Service, and Agent Sean Brady is assigned to the case. Tracking the source forces him into a dangerous world of fakes and greed where one wrong move gets people killed.

Joe and Faith have built a comfortable life in Idaho City and hope to raise Sam and Katie there even after the gold is gone. When those plans start to unravel, they have to decide what “home” really means on a changing frontier.

As Joe Beck and Faith head toward Idaho City with the wagon train, a quiet, frightening illness begins spreading among the settlers. With no cure and tempers rising, they have to keep the group moving and hold it together.

A surge of fortune hunters brings more crime to Idaho City, and Sheriff Fulmer adds deputies to keep order. Before the year is out, new hires and old connections collide, and the job becomes about more than just making arrests.

Clara is furious and exhausted after murder steals her first husband and then her second, both meant as warnings. Refusing to be intimidated, she pushes forward with a crusade for justice, even when it makes her the next target.

Wade Rivers watches his home burn to the ground, knowing his parents are trapped inside. With nowhere to turn and grief turning to anger, he has to carve out a future in a world that suddenly feels lawless and unforgiving.

On the day he should be celebrating, sixteen-year-old Joe Beck realizes there is no real place for him on his family's farm. He heads west searching for work and purpose, and meeting Faith turns his lonely plan into a partnership.

In San Antonio, lawyer Morgan is interrupted during an important meeting and pulled into a case that reaches beyond his tidy office. Navigating saloons, clients, and crooked schemes, he learns that justice on the frontier has sharp edges.

A standalone Western that follows a photographer trying to make a living in the American West. Getting close to other people's stories can also pull him into their trouble, and the wrong image can have real consequences.

Attorney James Spencer drafts an unusual will for wealthy bachelor Horace Kirby, built to protect a teenage niece until she turns eighteen. When Spencer rides to deliver it, he finds the biggest threat is the girl's stepfather, who is also the county sheriff.

After the wagon train finally crosses the South Platte River, it turns north toward new ruts leading west. As Joe Beck and Faith guide their tent-cart away from Julesburg, hard terrain and harder choices threaten to split the travelers for good.

A standalone Western built around a dangerous trip and the person tasked with guarding it. With pressure on the trail and trust in short supply, the journey becomes a test of nerve, judgment, and endurance.

Joe Beck and Faith press on with their westward plans, but the trail has a way of pulling people apart and throwing them back together. A chance reunion forces them to decide who they can rely on when trouble closes in.

A standalone Western centered on Jake, a man used to handling problems on his own. When circumstances force him into responsibility for someone else, he learns that the hardest fights are not always the loudest ones.

A Union Pacific train vanishes between Granger and Ogden without wreckage or trace. When a ransom demand arrives threatening to blow up the missing train and its passengers, special agent Nelson Cook races to find the truth before time runs out.

Stranded in Montana Territory after the Panic of 1873 shuts down the railroad, Cap Tyler has survived by staying alone and keeping his head down. A new job and new people drag him back into trouble, testing what kind of man he wants to be.

Thrown out into the St. Louis night with no money and nowhere to sleep, a young man branded as “nothing” runs on anger and grit. He enters the brutal world of bareknuckle fighting, taking on stronger opponents just to survive.

A standalone Western from C J Petit, centered on frontier tensions and the hard bargains people make to protect what they have. It is a self-contained story driven by tough choices and consequences.

After years on a big spread, Tabby Hayes rides away with no hard feelings, just the reality of a shrinking cattle economy. Looking for his next place in the West, he finds that a simple job can come with complications and unexpected loyalties.

After a hurricane and a hard call at sea, Rhody Jones reaches New Orleans with no job and no safety net. In a city full of easy money and bad friends, he has to choose what kind of man he'll become.

As the war winds down, Captain Eugene Stewart expects to go home to Peoria and finally breathe. A thick letter from his mother changes the plan, setting him on a path where duty follows him long after the fighting ends.

College student Grip Taylor is summoned to the dean's office, and the meeting knocks his plans sideways. A simple request turns into a journey that forces him to decide who he is and what he owes to others.

Garrett Shaw and his father catch rustlers stealing steers from their small ranch and give the men one chance to leave peacefully. When that mercy backfires, Garrett learns that protecting home and family can become a deadly duty.

Guide Keith watches his cousin Angus ride into the wilderness east of the Cascades, escorting newlyweds instead of a typical hunting party. The trip is meant to be peaceful, but the backcountry has its own rules and dangers.

Dylan Evans has survived disasters, bad winters, and the kind of work that breaks most people. Now he looks back on the moments that shaped his family, trying to put the past into words before it slips away for good.

Sent to Granite in New Mexico Territory, Western Union man Cy Page is supposed to quietly investigate a telegraph operator who may be overcharging customers. The job turns risky fast when money and secrets make powerful enemies.

News from Canon City puts the Evans family on edge, and a risky mission is assigned to Bethan's brother Lynn and her uncle Bryn. Bethan refuses to be left behind, and the choice she makes pulls her into danger that will change her life.

Alwen walks away from the family business and sets out to build something that is truly hers. Starting over sounds simple until money, pride, and old ties collide, and her dream depends on the people she is willing to trust.

A standalone Western set in Wilmore, where small-town problems can turn serious fast. As tensions rise, the people closest to the trouble have to decide what kind of community they are willing to be.

Railroad agent Will Scott is sent to Robinson in New Mexico Territory to check a coal deposit and judge whether a spur line is worth the money. The job pulls him into local rivalries where business decisions can turn deadly.

U.S. Marshal War Adams receives a telegram that his father has been murdered and a suspect is already in custody. The case turns personal fast, forcing him to ride home and face the one truth he never wanted to believe.

Virgil Scott and Roy Sheffield drive horses toward Denver expecting a hard but normal trip. The trail delivers the opposite, with obstacles that test their skills and their partnership, and a herd that can turn into chaos in a heartbeat.

Branded a witch and hunted across the Dakota prairie, a young woman runs on fear, stubbornness, and a little bit of luck. With warriors close behind and shelter scarce, she has to decide who to trust before the plains swallow her whole.

Leaving Fort Omaha on a scouting mission toward Fort Sully, Kyle MacKenzie notices wagon tracks where there should be none. His curiosity turns into a dangerous investigation, and every mile in the wake of the Bertrand brings bigger stakes.

Jed Morgan expects a quiet family picnic until the herd nearby becomes restless and danger builds. When the stampede finally breaks, the race to survive turns into a test of skill and luck, and the aftermath changes the family for good.

Ada, Elsa, and Bridgette are fighting to hold on to their silver mine while Mike Bergman tries to take it from them. Outmatched and running out of options, they bet on one bold move that could change the balance of power.

Prospector Jonathan Jansen spends the winter alone on Upper Clear Creek, convinced only a fool would keep hunting for gold in the cold. Isolation and stubborn hope push him forward, and what he finds could change his luck or ruin him.

Union sergeant Sam Walker returns to Iowa to find his sweetheart married to his brother and his future gone. He heads to Texas to keep a promise to a fallen comrade, only to discover that war has a long reach even in peace.

A standalone Western that focuses on a small group pushed to the edge by circumstances they cannot control. With trust in short supply, the story turns on hard decisions and the consequences that follow.

Mack Smith is shot down near his brother's ranch and wakes to a world that does not feel safe anymore. As he tries to recover and understand who wanted him dead, his skills as a gun smith make him both valuable and vulnerable.

Clay Jeffries has waited years to watch a rare eclipse from his private observatory. When an unexpected visitor arrives with an unusual request, the night turns tense, and the sky's darkening shadow becomes the least of Clay's worries.

A standalone Western about a promise that refuses to stay in the past. When an old debt comes due, pride and obligation pull people into conflict, and paying up can cost far more than money.

Ted Shepard has spent years hunting bounties and serving as a deputy marshal, and he is ready to leave that life behind. Then a personal loss drags him back to Wilmore, where old misery and new trouble are waiting.

After the Clayton gang leaves Laramie’s sheriff’s office short on deputies, Joe Tate is already stretched thin. Then a strange complaint brings in a visitor, and the issue that “isn't even a crime” sets off a chain of events he never saw coming.

Former Boulder sheriff Sam Brown rides to his sister's ranch and finds it empty, with no clear sign of where the family went. The search takes him south of Denver into rough country where every clue points to something worse than a simple disappearance.

A standalone Western about a sheriff trying to keep order when a frontier county refuses to stay calm. As pressures mount from every side, Sheriff Joe learns that doing the job means making enemies and living with the fallout.

A Nebraska blizzard traps Aaron overnight, but by dawn he is back on the trail, driven by a promise he cannot break. Crossing the plains toward Scotts Bluff, he faces cold, distance, and the fear that he is already too late.

Lawyer Harry Glenn is hired to look into the murder of a judge, but the case refuses to stay neat or simple. As he digs into motives and secrets, he finds that the real scandal in Topeka is what people are willing to hide.

Sheriff Sam Hicks is the law for a massive stretch of Yavapai County in Arizona Territory. After China Joe's gang robs a huge cash shipment bound for Prescott, Hicks rides out knowing he may not live long enough to see the job finished.

With cattle drives fading and railroads changing everything, Carl has to rethink his future in Pine Bluffs. A new opportunity at Rock Creek offers hope, but it also pulls him into local tensions where one mistake can cost him his livelihood.

During the war, sniper Ellis White lines up a Yankee colonel in his sights, but hesitation can be fatal on either side. His actions send him back toward Hardeman County with consequences that follow him long after the shooting stops.

On his thirteenth birthday, Joey is handed a pistol and a place beside his older brothers on a bank job. When the robbery goes sideways, Joey has to do the one thing no kid should, cover the gang's escape and live with what it costs.

Matt plans to build a life on the ranch he is inheriting, raising Morgan horses and making a home north of Denton. Finding the right partner seems like the next step, until local trouble shows him that settling down is never that easy.

A standalone Western set in and around Miles City, where opportunity attracts both hopeful newcomers and people looking to take advantage. The story follows characters forced to choose between easy answers and the harder right thing.

A standalone Western centered on Max and the choices that shape a life on the frontier. As plans collide with reality, he has to decide what he stands for, and what he is willing to risk to keep going.

Matt Dunne and his men are pushing cattle toward Abilene when attackers burst out of the sun with Winchesters blazing. The outlaws plan to stampede the herd and finish the job in chaos, unless Matt can outthink them fast.

Mac Jones builds a rough cabin high in the mountains, hoping it will be a refuge from a violent world. When two fellow refugees show up, his sanctuary turns into a killing ground, and Mac has to fight for the life he tried to escape.

A dead man tied to a stake pulls Lynn into a brutal case at Fort Benton. The trail leads to the Double EE ranch, where old wounds run deep and he has to prove himself while hunting the killers.

A standalone Western centered on Luke as he tries to hold a steady life in a rough place. When trouble lands close to home, he has to decide what he is willing to risk, and who he will stand up for.

Bounty hunter Lin Chase tracks the Whitacre brothers with the certainty that the chase will end in blood. The deeper he rides, the clearer it becomes that the job is tangled in grudges and politics, and the outcome may be inevitable.

Kyle can't shake the guilt of wasting time while his mother worked herself sick, so he throws himself into a punishing job and a new life. The legacy he is chasing brings danger and a cost to the people he cares about.

When Will starts checking the numbers around Pearl's past, he realizes they do not add up. The truth points back to family secrets and an older sister no one talks about, and finding answers could cost Will everything he has built.

Deputy marshal Earl Crawford is assigned a mission that is far more dangerous than routine work. As he rides toward Hopewell, he finds himself caught between violent men and fragile communities that need protection.

Sent away by his mother without an explanation, young Toby steps off a train in the dark and is left on a bench to wait for the sheriff. Hours later he meets the uncle he never knew, Hitch Nelson, and nothing feels simple anymore.

Zack Dyer watches a sky full of shooting stars and hears a voice that convinces him they are a warning. Believing he has been chosen, he tries to lead the faithful away from danger toward a promised haven before destruction arrives.

After being fired for standing up to a foreman, aging cowboy Gus heads to Oklahoma with little more than pride and experience. Work with the elderly Aronsons seems like a break, until their quiet life draws in danger.

Assigned to investigate timber poaching near Missoula in Montana Territory, Gabe Owens expects a routine case. It changes fast when the station agent turns up dead, and the search for the thief becomes a hunt for a killer.

Jonas is tired of fighting rebels and Apaches and wants only peace on the land he claimed. He returns to his unfinished cabin near Fort Selden, but the frontier does not grant quiet for long, and his past keeps catching up.

A standalone Western built around a missing person and the determination to bring them back. As the search stretches across hard country, every new lead carries risk, and the outcome depends on persistence and luck.

Twelve-year-old Dylan Evans is trapped in a coal mine when a collapse turns ordinary work into a fight for life. With a boiler threatening to blow and men running out of air, he has to find courage fast and help others survive.

Doc Holt listens to ranch hands joke about the night's excitement and realizes he cannot keep telling himself it is none of his business. Sick with guilt, he decides to step in and stop what is happening, even if it makes him a target.

Susanna stands over her father's body, knowing she has killed him and that the law will soon come for her. With execution as the likely end, she sees only one path forward, a lie strong enough to keep her alive.

Conn Jackson leaves the Bar L near Cheyenne with cash saved and a clear plan, buy land and start his own spread in Colorado. It should be an easy hundred-mile ride through open country, until the journey goes wrong in ways he never expected.

A standalone Western centered on Cole, a man with a reputation he cannot fully escape. As trouble closes in, he is forced to choose between the life he had and the life he wants to build.

When James Everett's daughter is kidnapped, no one will help, not the law, the Pinkertons, or the army. Desperate and out of options, he seeks a man who left the business years ago, his daughter's last and only chance.

A mine disaster leaves Bryn Evans facing loss, hard choices, and a world that feels suddenly fragile. As the family tries to rebuild, Bryn is pulled into conflicts that are bigger than one town, and he learns how expensive survival can be.

A twister destroys Ed's ranch and takes the people he loves most, leaving him numb and alone. With nothing left to lose, he sets out to rebuild, carrying grief like a weight and learning what it means to keep going.

Pinkerton agent Ben Gray is sent to Denver to confirm an affair, a job that sounds more tedious than dangerous. While in town he visits his brother and learns about a possible gold deposit, and the new lead brings the wrong kind of attention.

A single rock on the Oregon Trail sets off a chain of events that changes everything for the people depending on that wagon train. Pushing toward Baker City, they have to endure grief, blame, and the hard math of survival on the trail.

Henry St. Martin is thrown off his father's ranch and warned never to return or be shot. Cut loose with nothing but stubbornness, he heads out under a new name, Alex Paine, and learns how brutal reinvention can be on the frontier.

Rancher A.J. Smith has worked hard to build his spread and wants someone to share it with. When widow Hannah Jacobsen moves into the small house on his land, both of them learn that starting over takes more courage than muscle.

Mrs. Doyle wakes to a bear at the edge of camp, and the bigger horror is what she does not see, everyone else is gone. Left with a frightened boy and no help in the wilderness, she has to keep them alive.

A standalone Western centered on Zack, who wants a clean start but finds that the frontier does not offer easy peace. Pulled into other people's problems, he has to decide what lines he will not cross.

Jake Fletcher is escorting a slow-witted young man to the sheriff after a killing at a refugee camp. It should be a straightforward ride, but the trail turns complicated fast, and protecting his prisoner becomes a dangerous responsibility.

Rancher Lee Ryan knows winter is coming and he needs hay, but work on his spread never stays simple. As he pushes to secure what his family needs, trouble rides in with the season and forces him to defend his home.

Jake Fletcher marries Nora and quickly learns the choice was not as simple as it looked from the outside. As the honeymoon glow fades, both of them have to face what they really want from a life built on the frontier.

A standalone Western from C J Petit that leans into everyday frontier pressures, work, weather, and people who need each other more than they want to admit. When trouble arrives, loyalty and patience are put to the test.

Rachel stares at her dead husband with the knife still in his gut and knows she cannot stay. With lawmen and enemies closing in, she runs from Missoula toward a hidden valley, hoping she can outride her past.