Kirby Jonas Books in Order

Captain Tappan Kittery reluctantly becomes a vigilante to pursue the Desperados Eight and their vicious leader, Savage Diablo Baraga. His search for justice follows a violent trail toward secrets that have long been concealed from him.

Raised partly among Apaches, deputy Mort Dansing struggles to regain respect after losing a bank-robbing gang's trail. A friend's murder sends him into the Arizona desert, where personal loyalties and the Apache Wars turn pursuit into a fight for survival.

After a grizzly attack leaves teenage Basque sheepherder Jose Olano near death, outlaw Robert Gray Eagle McAllister risks capture to help him. Their growing partnership introduces Jose to frontier survival while raising questions about the life he wants to lead.

A Wyoming bank robbery sends Tom McLean and Tyrone Sandoe fleeing toward Montana with a band of cattle thieves. Sheriff Van Bennett pursues them relentlessly after a killing, testing the fugitives' friendships and loyalties along the way.

In Idaho Territory, Kathryn Winchester faces another devastating crisis after her husband is shot by an unknown attacker. Raised as a Quaker and repeatedly touched by violence, she must discover who targeted him and confront the truth behind the attack.

Civil War veteran Tappan Kittery enters Arizona Territory hunting a killer and becomes entangled with the Desperados Eight. His effort to halt their violence draws him toward vigilantes operating beyond the law and a struggle against further bloodshed.

Seeking a fresh start after tragedy, partners Sam Coffey and Tom Vanse travel to southern Arizona. An old man's account of hidden gold and silver draws them into a dangerous treasure hunt in Yaqui territory.

Traveling separately through Nevada, brothers Jacob and Jason West unknowingly settle on opposite sides of a brewing range war. Jacob joins a cattle ranch as a hired gun, while Jason lives among Mexican sheepherders across the valley.

Brothers Jacob and Jason West remain divided by a violent conflict between cattle ranchers and Mexican sheepherders. As the struggle intensifies, the formidable Sandoval Cobra stands between the sheepmen and victory, while Jacob serves the opposing ranch.

After a mysterious rider kills his abusive father, young Austin Everett sets out to find the murderer. Former lawman Alto Martinez joins him on a separate quest for vengeance, taking both toward Montana's gold camps and unexpected companions.

Grieving stagecoach driver Clay Logan leaves Ohio for the western frontier, hoping to escape memories of his wife and infant son. In Idaho City, dangerous road agents and his attachment to an abused married woman threaten his search for peace.

In 1977 Shelley, Idaho, withdrawn schoolboy Samuel Jordan befriends Angelica, an optimistic newcomer recovering from a brain tumor. Their shared interests help him begin to trust others, but the friendship also brings a challenge he has never faced.

When violent boomtowns need order, they call on Matthew Morgan, a professional town tamer who takes up a marshal's badge. His ability to confront dangerous men faces a different test when two women compete for his heart.

Lehi leads his family east from the Red Sea into Arabia's Empty Quarter, following a divine command. This Book of Mormon dramatization follows their perilous desert crossing, threatened by harsh conditions, scarce resources, and rebellion within the family.

In ancient Jerusalem, scribe Zoram questions his service to the powerful Laban and encounters Nephi, son of Lehi. Told through Zoram's eyes, this scriptural dramatization follows the relationships and choices surrounding a family's departure into the wilderness.

This second Lehi's Dream novel continues the journey of Lehi, Sariah, and their sons south through Arabia. Its dramatization of the Book of Mormon develops their family experiences against the challenges of life in the desert wilderness.

Montana wildlife agent Monty finds Louisiana’s swamps unfamiliar and frightening, especially after dark. Discovering an alligator poachers’ camp with his partner places him in immediate danger, leaving the darkness he fears as the only protection they can rely upon.

Fired from the FBI and grieving his wife, Vietnam veteran Coal Savage returns to Idaho as Lemhi County’s sheriff. Raising four troubled children becomes harder when a series of murders threatens his neighbors and suggests he may be the next target.

Sheriff Coal Savage races to stop a killer targeting people in his hometown while struggling with his family. Suspicion centers on an ex-convict who threatened revenge, forcing Coal to question whether killing first would protect his friends or betray his conscience.

Coal Savage takes two vulnerable girls into his household after family tragedy, only to lose them to relatives awarded custody. He and deputy Todd Mitchell try to bring the children home, fearing the legal decision has placed them in danger.

Nate Harrison and his sons turn stamping discarded cigarettes into a game, convinced they are helping prevent addiction. Meeting two homeless men challenges that certainty and forces Nate to reconsider the judgments behind a ritual he once regarded as harmless.

Cole Spradlin leaves a disappointing craft fair worried that his meager earnings will spoil his family’s Christmas. Reluctantly stopping for a stranded traveler creates an unexpected encounter that may change the significance of the holiday and his own priorities.

Widower Dowdy Branson dreads Christmas, heavy farm work, and the frightened dog he cannot approach. Picking up Clay Waters beside the road and offering him employment introduces a connection that challenges his bitterness and opens a different possibility for the season.

After his father’s death, a man wakes in the family cabin beside two hunting dogs and an oversized pair of inherited boots. One final autumn walk through the timber becomes an encounter with grief, memory, and the difficulty of following a parent.

Sheriff Coal Savage’s personal troubles deepen when his mentor Jim Lockwood becomes the chief suspect in a dairy farmer’s murder. Determined to prove his friend innocent, Coal follows competing leads that challenge his confidence in the people closest to him.

Eighteen-year-old football star Russ Blevins embraces his unusual name and becomes a local hero in 1955 Shelley, Idaho. As success feeds his pride, he risks forgetting the people and childhood values that helped shape him.

A woman in a rest home faces Christmas alone after her son’s death, while a man confronts the loneliness created by neglecting his family. Their lives reveal the need for connection at a holiday that makes absence particularly painful.

Vietnam veteran Slugger Janx struggles with racism and hostility toward returning soldiers in Louisiana. Sheriff Coal Savage offers refuge with his Idaho family, but prejudice follows Slugger north, forcing both friends to confront the limits of safety and belonging.

Coal Savage and Maura PlentyWounds take a road trip after a painful loss, hoping for respite. Returning to Maura’s childhood home on Pine Ridge Reservation instead forces her to confront traumatic memories and the man who drove her away.

After war and pandemic leave the world under authoritarian rule, firefighter Lucas Garland shelters a giant skunk from feral dogs. When Grace and other animals develop human abilities, he becomes caught in an upheaval threatening the new order.

Needing money to sustain their ranch, Sam Coffey and Tom Vanse guide archaeologists into Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains. An earthquake exposes a hidden cave, but the expedition's extraordinary discovery attracts a dangerous rival who claims it as his own.

Las Vegas mob assassins pursue Coal Savage and anyone able to help convict two criminals. With his own resources stretched, the sheriff recruits former FBI friends Alex Martinez and Sam Browning, forming an alliance to resist the killers closing around them.

Tenn Rhoades discovers his best friend’s body as gold transforms a peaceful valley into a target for ruthless men. Protecting the dead man’s family and ranch pits him against a gang determined to destroy anyone standing between them and the fortune.

Struggling barmaid Eva Galanti discovers a briefcase of money and hopes it will rescue her family from hardship. When its mob owners come looking, the apparent gift becomes a deadly pursuit in which two unlikely allies offer her only chance.

A boy’s murder implicates Hunter Jack when a lance belonging to the Shoshone man is found in the victim’s chest. Sheriff Coal Savage challenges the prevailing suspicion, working alone to prove Dark Badger’s innocence despite the apparent evidence against him.

On Christmas Eve, Barnabas des Loups faces a promise he desperately wishes he had never made. Approaching an Arikara camp means getting close enough to shoot his best friend, turning loyalty into a terrible and seemingly unavoidable obligation.