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Browse Frank Wheeler books in order, with quick summaries, series background, and simple where-to-start picks for modern western readers.

Last updated: July 2, 2026

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A Bullet For Justice

by Frank Wheeler

2020

When frontier violence leaves the law with no easy answer, one determined westerner chooses to fight back. It is a brisk, no-nonsense western built on vengeance, courage, and payback.

Battle at Dry Cross

by Frank Wheeler

2020

The conflict around Dry Cross erupts into full-scale violence in this fast western. It is built on siege pressure, shifting loyalties, and one last stand for control of the town.

Destined for Justice

by Frank Wheeler

2020

Rancher Amos Cole tries to stay out of the Dusk Riders’ path until Larsen Wells threatens his sister and raids the family ranch. Joined by revenge-driven Norma Conway, Amos rides out for justice.

Dry Cross Honor

by Frank Wheeler

2020

Trouble comes to Dry Cross, and a hero with a code has to decide what honor is worth once bullets start flying. The result is a tense western about loyalty, pressure, and standing firm.

Justice On The Ranch

by Frank Wheeler

2020

A ranch becomes the center of a larger frontier fight when outlaw pressure spills onto family land. Wheeler turns the setup into a brisk story of defense, grit, and hard-earned justice.

Sheriffs Don’t Surrender

by Frank Wheeler

2020

Sheriff Conrad Scott comes home to find his town in ruins and Rudy Galloway’s gang in charge. When women vanish and his own family is threatened, surrender stops being an option.

Texas Trails

by Frank Wheeler

2020

A rough Texas trail becomes the road to trouble in this standalone western. Wheeler builds the story around survival, loyalty, and the moment staying out of the fight is no longer possible.

The Lone Star Rider

by Frank Wheeler

2020

Sheriff Jesse Pittman sets out to solve his cousin’s death and runs straight into Percy Simpson’s violent gang. With Percy’s sister Lydia hunting him too, Lone Rock heads toward a brutal reckoning.

The Rancher’s War

by Frank Wheeler

2020

A ranch dispute grows into open war when a stubborn landowner refuses to be pushed aside. Home, family, and pride all end up riding on the same gunfight.

A Rancher’s Grit

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Virgil leads a quiet life on his ranch until Nash arrives, hunting Sally across Texas. To save his land, his town, and the woman he loves, Virgil has to stop running from trouble and meet it head-on.

As Good As Dead

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Newly badged Sheriff Rhone Baxter barely has time to settle in before a pregnant stranger arrives in Stagport, alone and in trouble. Protecting her means stepping into a deadly fight almost before his first day begins.

Battle in Tightwater

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Rancher Stanton Holmes refuses to sell out to land shark Buford Briggs, and Tightwater pays the price. With Louella Goodwin trapped inside Briggs’s scheme, the whole town slides toward war.

Blood Over Texas

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Rancher Jacob Baxter’s quiet life ends when outlaw Sherman Lopez comes hunting gold in Texas Hill Country. With Hilda Snow and a stolen map caught in the middle, the whole town is dragged toward violence.

Bullets Don’t Rest

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Sheriff Frank Mercer has spent years hunting Steven Caine, the outlaw who killed his parents. When Caine rides back into Miller’s Post, Frank finally gets his chance, but Lena Blanchard’s secret past makes the showdown even messier.

Bullets Over Badges

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Sheriff Michael McClure goes to war with Rustler Clements, a killer trying to hide behind a new face. Sadie, Rustler’s sister, makes the showdown even more dangerous.

Cowboys Bleed Red

by Frank Wheeler

2021

A stretch of ranch country turns into a killing ground in this hard-driving western. When violence lands close to home, a cowboy has to defend his people and settle the score.

Guns Over Texas

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Rancher Cobb Massey takes a stand when Ed Blevins brings murder and land-grabbing to Wildsprings. A widow’s ranch and a mysterious saloon owner raise the stakes fast.

Honor Doesn’t Sleep

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Former Texas Ranger Levi Drake retires to his dream ranch, but Jude Gore’s gang drags him back into battle. Saving Wildsprings and freeing Anna from Gore’s grip become the same fight.

Last Rancher Standing

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Elroy Baxter and his brothers find a lost little girl on their ranch and suddenly inherit her enemies too. Outlaw Max Lynch wants her dead, and the only way to stop him is to turn the ranch into a battleground.

The Punisher

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Sheriff Fred Tonks finally finds a trail leading back to the men who slaughtered his family. The hunt points to a murderous Texas Ranger who calls his own killing justice.

The Road West

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Sheriff Harris Mulligan reaches Stagport expecting peace and finds Shotgun Burns ruling by fear. With Maggie trapped in the middle, Mulligan’s fight to clean up the town becomes painfully personal.

The Savage Road

by Frank Wheeler

2021

Sheriff Lee Powers is nearly the only man in Tightwater who sees Jasper Savage for what he is. As fear spreads and a bigger heist takes shape, Lee has to stop the town from tearing itself apart.

Bound By Blood

by Frank Wheeler

2022

A Union soldier saves a Confederate drummer boy during the war, and the two stay bound like family for years. Their later hunt for the criminal called the Cobra turns painfully personal.

Cash and Nettie

by Frank Wheeler

2022

A man and woman caught on the wrong side of frontier danger have to rely on each other to stay alive. This standalone blends romance, pursuit, and the constant threat of violence.

Chance

by Frank Wheeler

2022

A frontier life balanced on luck and bad choices tips into open danger in this standalone western. Wheeler builds the story around one slim chance to survive and make things right.

Deputy Cooper

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Cooper Franklin suspects his sister’s death was no accident and uncovers a scheme tied to a railroad baron and the Predators gang. If he fails, Tightwater goes down with him.

Hope

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Former outlaw Lee Decker thought he had buried his past when he built a life with Naomi. When Curtis Blackwell comes after his daughters, Lee is forced back into the gunfight he tried to escape.

Hunter Bates

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Hunter thinks his estranged brother’s return might heal old wounds, until Tyson Blood’s gang arrives with a kidnapping plan. Protecting Archer’s family means stepping into a deadly plot.

Isolation

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Troy Easton takes a trapping job to support his family and comes home to devastation caused by Dixon Gray. To protect the people he loves, he has to help set a trap of his own.

Ratchet

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Bounty hunter Wade Ratchet wants the man who killed his brother, but Auger Brooks is waiting for him too. Outnumbered by killers, Ratchet rides toward a showdown he may not survive.

Red

by Frank Wheeler

2022

This standalone centers on a hard past and a fight for survival on the frontier. It is a compact western about violence, identity, and the cost of trying to start over.

Redemption

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Noble Scott faces Creed Conway, the killer who wrecked his life years ago. With Shannon beside him, he gets one more chance to stop a man who leaves death wherever he rides.

The Kid

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Jude Bishop rescues a traumatized boy and raises him as his own, but outlaw Doyle Hobbs shatters their hard-won peace. The past comes hunting, and so does the truth.

Wild Vengeance

by Frank Wheeler

2022

Gavin Hammer has spent ten years haunted by his family’s murder and chasing the outlaw Stone. When Stone destroys another home, Gavin and widow Essie Wilcox join forces for revenge.

Abandon

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Kaspar Dorn runs from the father who murdered his mother, then returns years later to face him in Abandon, Texas. Old secrets and buried grief turn the confrontation into something bigger.

Badlands

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Set against harsh country and harsher enemies, this standalone turns survival into its central question. Wheeler uses the landscape itself as pressure, driving the story toward a brutal reckoning.

Citadel

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Dakota Thorne returns from railroad work hoping for peace, only to lose his old life to a larger conspiracy. To get justice, he has to face gangsters, tycoons, and relentless pursuit.

Marked At Birth

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Clarence Starr quits a corrupt sheriff’s unit to save an orphan boy, only to lose him years later to criminal father Zane Loomis. Getting Robbie back may cost Clarence everything.

Mercy

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Mercy Clayton escapes one violent life only to land inside another. With ex-bounty hunter Zeke Young, she tries to stop a gang leader and bring a little peace to the Arizona desert.

Old Samuel

by Frank Wheeler

2023

An older frontiersman is pushed back into trouble when the past refuses to stay buried. It has the feel of a lean western about memory, grit, and one more fight than a man wanted.

The Bonds of Brotherhood

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Pat Bond finds a family of choice in two fellow drifters and later rides beside them as a U.S. marshal. When betrayal shatters that bond, he heads home to face what is left.

The Deadly Seven

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Amnesiac Kip Slade wakes with no memory and learns the gang hunting him is one he once rode with. Teaming with a medicine show woman, he tries to uncover the truth before the Deadly Seven do.

The Gallows

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Former sheriff Johnny Price is pulled back into action when children start vanishing and the killers from his past resurface. It is part missing-child hunt, part long-delayed reckoning.

The Gringo

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Deputy Flint Stillwater finally comes home after ten years in a Mexican jail for a crime he did not commit. Home is no refuge, and he sets out to expose the people who framed him.

The Prison Wagon

by Frank Wheeler

2023

Hollis Hawthorn helps foil a plot against the governor, then ends up on a prison transport that goes disastrously wrong. Catching escaped killer Damian Knox may require trusting the wrong man.

The Promise

by Frank Wheeler

2023

After seeing his parents killed, Remington returns to Three Devils years later with a promise and a gun. To bring down Dorian Hyde, he must work with Hyde’s trapped daughter while a new terror stalks the town.

A Bond Broken

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Civil War survivors Wyatt and Amos Cole come home as strangers and find Coldwater Creek under the Hale gang’s control. To save their family and town, the brothers have to mend the bond war snapped.

Beneath A Deadly Sky

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Betrayed in war, John Mitchell tries to build a quiet life until an old enemy comes for his land and family. A hidden cache of black powder turns the fight into a race against disaster.

Doc McCoy

by Frank Wheeler

2024

A frontier doctor is drawn into trouble where healing alone will not save anyone. Wheeler uses the title character’s skill and conscience to drive a western about survival and moral debt.

Grim

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Jaxon Grim, once known as the Gunman of Sombrales, faces a Chinese saboteur, a ruthless railroad tycoon, and the girl he once loved. His past will not let him ride away clean.

In The Dead of Night

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Chevy and Lorna Sinclair thought they had escaped the outlaw life, but Bethany Sinclair wants revenge. When she takes over Pistol Flats, the family feud turns deadly.

Lucky Break

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Fresh out of prison, Jeb Evans teams up with Trixie and Zelda to hunt the killers who ruined their lives. Tracking gamblers through the West forces him to decide whether justice can redeem him.

Relentless

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Isabella chases the outlaw who killed her husband across the Mexican borderlands and finds an ally in gunslinger Diego. Their pursuit of justice becomes a war against gangs and corrupt lawmen.

Shane

by Frank Wheeler

2024

After Myla is framed for murders she did not commit, Shane Palmer survives a sheriff’s attempt to kill him and rides back for the truth. Clearing her name means taking on a crooked town and a greedy timber baron.

The Bounty

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Bounty hunter Rayne Sutherland raised Jeb to be better than his killer father, then watches the boy end up on a wanted poster. Bringing him home alive may be Rayne’s hardest job yet.

The List

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Marshal Dillon Guthrie gets one last chance to keep his badge, but only if he captures five notorious Arizona outlaws. The hunt gets messier when a rookie deputy and a skeptical ranch owner join the chase.

The Reckoning

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Seamus and his half-brother Finnegan are outsiders in Faith’s Landing until the Coyote Creek Gang takes over. Saving home and family means standing against a town’s fear.

The Reluctant Sheriff

by Frank Wheeler

2024

Former sheriff Kip Gossett hides in the mountains until a kidnapping pulls him back. Helping Mallory Bryce and his ex-wife means facing both old guilt and a mastermind in the shadows.

The Trapper’s Promise

by Frank Wheeler

2024

A trapper’s oath pulls him into danger when the wilderness proves no safer than town. Wheeler pairs frontier survival with a promise that refuses to loosen its grip.

A Brand That Burns

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Cobbler Eben Callahan goes looking for the woman he loves and finds a conspiracy tied to Cassidy Voss’s branded past. To expose her father, they have to survive hunters, lawmen, and a town quick to judge.

A Family Name

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Lucky Bones and Virginia Brooks join forces to hunt Mad Jack Harlan, the outlaw who destroyed her family. Their trail leads through ambushes, buried secrets, and a hard question about justice.

A Fistful of Winter

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Jonah Munroe and widow Eliza Langford are thrown together in a Montana winter while killers hunt them for rumored gold. Snow, hunger, and mistrust make every mile harder.

Dexter Truman

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Dexter Truman takes a debt-collection job to save his cousin and discovers the bank behind it is wrecking families. With Annabelle Hudson and Jake Gannon, he rides into a rescue he never meant to join.

Ghost Creek

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Former bounty hunter Teague Nashville tries to leave vengeance behind, but an ambushed wagon train pulls him into war with Ignacio Cortez. Even with partner Blake Mallory beside him, survival is far from certain.

Lost and Hunted

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Bounty hunter Hunter Creed takes a job to bring back a rancher’s missing wife and discovers she is more victim than fugitive. The case leads into a brutal empire of exploitation and revenge.

Lucky Shot

by Frank Wheeler

2025

U.S. Marshal Branson Pike is ordered to escort reckless bounty hunter Lucky Bones so he can testify against a powerful outlaw. A reporter, a ledger, and too many hired guns turn the trip into a trap.

Shackled

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Veteran Doyle Baldwin comes home from war to find Ironwood Valley under the Brotherhood’s grip. Searching for his missing father pulls him into labor camps, disappearances, and a fight for home.

Sidewinder

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Seth Jackson is released after seven years in prison and returns to find his wife married to the man who framed him. When she kills that man, the two are forced onto the run.

Silent Caravan

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Widowed Amos Cole joins a wagon train with his young daughter and meets Sabrina Sadler, who is fleeing her outlaw husband. The trail west becomes a fight for love, children, and survival.

The Blacksmith

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Fresh out of prison, Tobias Jackman wants honest work and a clean start. A failing freight yard and sharp-minded Alyssa Welch give him both a chance and a new set of dangers.

The Long Hunt

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Former sheriff Woody Helms gave up his badge after one terrible failure, but Leila McRae needs him to stop Tye Bullock. Their pursuit across Arizona turns into a costly last stand.

The Price of Dirt

by Frank Wheeler

2025

A former bounty hunter and lifelong conman inherits land he never expected to own. Keeping it means outplaying a land baron, untangling an old fraud, and maybe cleaning up his own life.

Wire to Perdition

by Frank Wheeler

2025

Telegraph man Simon Tripp has spent years hiding from wartime guilt until Ronni Gamble arrives with proof against a corrupt marshal. Old friends and fresh enemies close in fast.

New

13 Years Running

by Frank Wheeler

2026

Thomas Farrow spent thirteen years hiding after exposing a murderous officer who threatened his family. When General Mark Tate rides back into his life, running is no longer enough.

New

Black Water

by Frank Wheeler

2026

James Bridger thought he had finished with Zedd Hightower years ago, but the outlaw now rules the bayou from an island stronghold. A new abduction drags Bridger back toward the badge and the fight.

New

Bone Dry

by Frank Wheeler

2026

Ranch hand Carver Harding has spent years avoiding his disgraced father’s path until an illegal dam leaves people sick and thirsty. Stopping Gareth Sutton means finally taking responsibility.

New

The Farrier

by Frank Wheeler

2026

Drifter Josiah Vane takes quiet work at a livery and gets mistaken for a man powerful people want dead. Clearing that lie is hard enough when a whole town runs on fear and silence.

New

The Five Guilty

by Frank Wheeler

2026

Benji Hastings wants to disappear at a harbor boatyard, then Ronin Schell returns with a vengeance list and men start dying. When Benji’s own name appears, he has no choice but to get involved.

New

The Sheepman

by Frank Wheeler

2026

Union veteran Cade McAlister wants only his sheep ranch and his daughter, until cattle interests burn his range and kill her. The killers awaken one of the deadliest marksmen in the West.

New

Whit Holmes

by Frank Wheeler

2026

Whit Holmes becomes a legend by accident when a dime novelist invents him as a gunfighter. Those lies reach a man hungry for revenge, and Whit is forced into the violent life he never wanted.

Where should I start?

If you want the earliest entry point: Destined for JusticeThe Lone Star RiderTexas Trails
If you like sheriffs and town showdowns: The Road WestSheriffs Don’t SurrenderThe Savage Road
If you want bounty hunters and revenge stories: RatchetThe BountyLucky Shot
If you prefer later, darker standalones: The GallowsThe BlacksmithWhit Holmes

Author bio

Frank Wheeler was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and spent much of his early life moving around the country. Different sources place him in states including Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, New Mexico, Maryland, and Nebraska, which helps explain why his fiction moves so comfortably through ranch country, rough towns, lonely roads, and borderland country.

Before he became known for westerns, he studied English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he earned both a B.A. and an M.A. That academic route gave him craft and structure, but the deeper pull seems to have started earlier. Wheeler has said he was fascinated by western history from childhood, and that lifelong interest eventually became the engine behind the books most readers know him for now.

He did not start out only in the Old West.

In 2010 he completed a master's thesis built around a crime novel called Razorback. A couple of years later, The Wowzer was published, and in 2015 he wrote the screenplay for the short crime film Your Blind Spot. Those early projects matter because they point to something that still shows up in his westerns: he likes people under pressure, buried guilt, and stories where violence always has a personal cost.

Then came the westerns, and he has written a lot of them.

Readers mostly know Wheeler for the long-running run of frontier novels that began in 2020 with Destined for Justice. Books like The Lone Star Rider, Bullets Don’t Rest, The Gallows, The Blacksmith, and Whit Holmes show what he comes back to again and again. Sheriffs who are outmatched. Ranchers trying to hold on to family land. Bounty hunters with unfinished business. Towns that look quiet right up until the shooting starts.

His books usually begin with a clear problem and a hard turn. A gang rides in. A child goes missing. A lawman is pushed out of retirement. A widow, drifter, or ex-soldier gets one last chance to do the right thing. From there, Wheeler tends to mix revenge plots, rescues, romance, and frontier justice in a very direct way. Even when the cast changes from book to book, the emotional core stays familiar: loyalty, survival, guilt, and the question of what a decent person owes the people they love.

That steady shape is part of the appeal.

He also writes westerns as true standalones more often than not. That makes his work easy to jump into. You do not need a giant family tree or a complicated timeline to get started. You just need to like frontier danger, stubborn heroes, and the kind of story where a town can still be saved if the right person refuses to back down. His settings move from Texas ranches and dusty sheriff's offices to wagon trails, mining country, border towns, mountain passes, and railroad settlements, but the pulse stays much the same.

Today, Wheeler lives in Texas with his wife and three children. That feels fitting. His fiction has always had dust on its boots, wide skies overhead, and one eye on the rough history of the American West.

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