Peter Brandvold Books in Order

Retired lawman Ben Stillman spends his days drinking, smoking, and playing cards until an old friend's son asks for help. The young man's demand for justice draws Stillman back toward the dangerous work he thought he had left behind.

A wagon train becomes stranded in the northern Rockies, where merciless outlaws threaten the settlers. After the gang destroys everything Nordstrom worked for, the man who helped guide the travelers sets out to avenge his losses.

War veteran Mark Talbot returns to Dakota Territory seeking peace, only to encounter land baron King Magnussen's campaign for control. Attraction to Magnussen's daughter and local woman Jacy Kincaid complicates his involvement in the growing land conflict.

A courtesan and her client are found with their throats cut in Clantick, Montana Territory. As killings multiply and residents threaten vigilante action, Sheriff Ben Stillman draws on his Pinkerton experience to connect the victims and identify a murderer.

Two years after leaving Clantick, Ben Stillman is called back by Jody Harmon when violent cowboys take over the town. Their killing of Jody's vulnerable friend forces the former peacekeeper to confront the men terrorizing its residents.

Marina and Adrian Clark follow a map to hidden Spanish gold, guided through the Southwest by scout Jack Cameron. A former Confederate officer pursues the same treasure to finance a Texas revolution, threatening the expedition's hopes and safety.

A winter storm drives murderous outlaws into a remote Montana cabin, where they take hostages. Sheriff Ben Stillman must rescue the captives while battling brutal weather, knowing his own wife Fay is among those trapped inside.

A deadly poker dispute leaves bounty hunter Lou Prophet pursued by cattleman Gerard Loomis's posse. Wounded in the Dakota Badlands, Prophet is sheltered by rancher Layla Carr, but Loomis's determination to avenge his son threatens them both.

Sheriff Ben Stillman pursues Métis trapper Shambeau, accused of murder after enduring hostility from white settlers. Tracking a man who knows the country intimately, Stillman must also question whether enforcing the law will actually deliver justice.

Bounty hunter Lou Prophet is hired to locate showgirl Lola Diamond and deliver her to court as a murder witness. Men determined to silence her turn a straightforward escort job into a struggle to keep them both alive.

Rancher Matt Parish is found beside his prospective father-in-law's bullet-riddled body after a dispute over land. Sheriff Ben Stillman must protect the suspect from a trigger-happy posse while investigating who actually committed the killing in Clantick.

Sheriff Ben Stillman investigates Marshal Charlie Boomhauer's murder in Lone Pine, where the new marshal blames outsiders and shows little interest in finding evidence. Operating beyond his jurisdiction, Stillman suspects the town is concealing the truth.

After witnessing the Red River Gang devastate Luther Falls and abduct a girl, Lou Prophet pursues them before a posse can assemble. A young woman whose family was killed joins him, bringing her own uncompromising thirst for vengeance.

Cuno Massey lacks the riding and shooting skills of an experienced gunman, but his father and stepmother's murders send him after Rolf Anderson and Sammy Spoon. His determination to avenge them outweighs his readiness for the dangerous pursuit.

Lou Prophet escorts a Russian noblewoman through Arizona in search of her missing sister. The disappearance is linked to buried treasure, drawing the bounty hunter and his client into conflict with desperadoes determined to claim the riches.

Lou Prophet and Louisa Bonaventure close in on Handsome Dave Duvall, the remaining outlaw responsible for slaughtering her family. Louisa's determination to kill him puts Prophet between her desire for vengeance and his commitment to justice.

The murder of Cuno Massey's pregnant bride destroys his hopes for a peaceful future. Armed with his Colt .45, he begins pursuing the killers, driven by grief and a determination to make those responsible answer for her death.

Deputy marshal Gideon Hawk's son is murdered by Ned Meade, and his devastated wife takes her own life. Abandoning the principles that governed his career, Hawk pursues the killer on a vengeance mission that makes him an outlaw.

Lou Prophet and Louisa Bonaventure bring captured stage robbers to Bitter Creek to collect their reward. When Sam Scanlon's riders hang the town's lawmen, the bounty hunters find themselves confronting a threat beyond the prisoners they delivered.

Cuno Massey is hunted across Colorado after killing the son of wealthy rancher Franklin Evans. Ruthless bounty hunter Ruben Pacheca pursues the reward, while Cuno's attraction to outlaw Marlene raises doubts about whom he can safely trust.

Gideon Hawk retreats to a remote San Juan Mountains cabin, hoping to escape pursuit. Catherine McCormick arrives from a mining camp attacked by a gang, asking him to avenge her murdered brother and confront the men responsible.

Sheriff Ben Stillman accompanies Judge John Bannon to a Montana wedding, expecting a break from work. Recently released prisoner Angus Whateley instead targets the judge, seeking revenge for the execution of his sons with help from his violent family.

Freighter Cuno Massey finds his partner Wade Scanlon murdered and their wagon destroyed. Tracking Clayton Cannady's gang, he joins a bartender and a father whose daughter was kidnapped, turning his pursuit of vengeance into a rescue mission.

A prostitute asks fugitive lawman Gideon Hawk for protection while bounty hunters seek to collect the price on his head. Helping her draws him into another dangerous confrontation, with his own survival already threatened by relentless pursuers.

U.S. Marshal Flagg pursues Gideon Hawk, a former lawman who abandoned legal restraint after losing his son and wife. Hawk's violent pursuit of vengeance places him on a collision course with the officer determined to bring him in.

Louisa Bonaventure hopes to leave bounty hunting and settle in Seven Devils with Lou Prophet. Finding the town burned and her cousin's family murdered, she instead pursues the Three of a Kind Gang, pulling Prophet back into her quest for vengeance.

Cuno Massey tries to rescue a rancher's daughter from a feud with vengeful Native warriors. The dangerous journey brings further threats from mountain marshals, forcing him to choose between obeying the law and protecting the woman in his care.

Seeking a peaceful life, Cuno Massey encounters outlaws attacking a prison wagon to free four convicts. He joins the outnumbered marshal defending the prisoners, committing himself to a long journey under repeated threat from the pursuing gang.

Gideon Hawk is asked to hunt Knife-Hand, a ruthless gang leader with an axe replacing one hand. The pursuit also touches Hawk's personal vendetta, adding another motive to his determination to deliver his own form of frontier justice.

Gold-seeking drifter Clay Carmody joins Sheriff Claudine Bridger of Camp Hawkins, Colorado Territory, to hunt a demon in Poudre Canyon. Their developing attraction unfolds amid strange deaths, returning corpses, and the supernatural menace threatening the frontier community.

Lou Prophet and Louisa Bonaventure seek a fresh start in Juniper, Wyoming, formerly called Helldorado. Work guarding bank gold offers apparent stability, but gunfire reveals that the town's cleaned-up reputation conceals dangers they must uncover to survive.

Lou Prophet and Louisa Bonaventure escort outlaw Blanco Metalious toward the gallows while a supposedly amnesiac girl joins them. Blanco's father pursues the party to free his son, adding another threat to an already suspicious journey.

Sentenced to death for killing marshals while protecting women, Cuno Massey escapes prison with Camilla's outlaw gang. Riding toward Mexico with lawmen in pursuit, he struggles to decide where his loyalties belong among equally dangerous companions and enemies.

Trinity Ridge needs a temporary lawman to confront the Tierney gang, whose escape from execution has left the town terrorized. Former deputy marshal Gideon Hawk accepts the challenge, determined to return the outlaws to the gallows they evaded.

A Texas Ranger pursues a killer through a snowstorm in this western short story. The hunt becomes increasingly uncertain as appearances prove deceptive, and even the woman he encounters may be very different from what she seems.

Fugitive Cuno Massey joins Deputy Marshal Spurr Morgan to recover weapons stolen by cavalry deserters for sale in Mexico. An alliance with a Yaqui leader brings them into a conflict involving gunrunners, a general, and a heavily armed convoy.

Johnny Navarro helps Tomasina escape the general who forced her into marriage and races to reunite her with her true love. A relentless bounty killer pursues them through Mexico while Tomasina’s beauty and hidden secret complicate Navarro’s loyalties.

Werewolves recruited to help win the Civil War escape prison and head west alongside other supernatural creatures. Ghoul hunter Uriah Zane and a federal marshal confront their search for a key that could grant the monsters permanent dominion.

Kidnappers imprison Louisa Bonaventure in a mine shaft full of snakes and demand Melvin Badthunder's head for her release. Lou Prophet pursues the border bandit to Muleville, racing to save his partner while confronting an increasingly uncertain situation.

Outlaw Chet Villanova murders his gang and his lover to claim all the money from their latest robbery. Riding toward Mexico with nearly thirty thousand dollars, he seems equipped to defeat any obstacle, but his escape may not prove so simple.

Lou Prophet joins Louisa Bonaventure on Mexico's frontier to hunt thief Tony Lazzaro and his blind gunwoman, Sugar Delphi. Pursued by hostile groups themselves, the bounty hunters make an uneasy alliance with Rurales seeking the outlaws' gold.

Aging deputy marshal Spurr Morgan tracks Clell Stanhope and his murderous Vultures gang. After the outlaw draws lawmen into a trap, Morgan finds an unexpected ally in Yakima Henry, whose help may be essential to finishing the pursuit.

Fleeing bounty hunters, Colter Farrow meets Kyle Bruner as she transports her dead outlaw brother for burial. The body carries a bounty too, and Colter’s attraction to Kyle threatens to draw him into another dangerous pursuit instead of safety in Mexico.

Fleeing Mexican Rurales, Lou Prophet discovers that Chisos Springs has become Moon's Well under Mordecai Moon's control. Beaten and abandoned in the desert after challenging Moon's exploitation, Prophet seeks help to confront the man ruling the town.

Pinkerton agents Bear Haskell and Raven York track criminals across the western frontier while struggling with their own attraction. The Texan war veteran and wealthy Yankee heiress disagree constantly, and their employer forbids the personal relationship neither can easily resist.

After a heart attack, Deputy Marshal Spurr Morgan requests one final assignment before retirement. Escorting a prisoner to Denver brings him face to face with old enemy Boomer Drago, whose gang pursues them as a young girl needs help.

Thirteen-year-old cowboy Lonnie Gentry crosses dangerous Colorado mountains to return money stolen by his mother's outlaw boyfriend. Joined by a murdered sheriff's daughter, he faces a grizzly, an unpredictable former Confederate, and outlaws determined to reclaim their loot.

Drifter Tanner Moody falls for a woman whose desire for revenge against her father pulls him into an outlaw gang. After joining a stagecoach robbery, he must fight to save himself and the woman he loves from the consequences.

Deputy Leon McMannigle kills an outlaw woman to save Sheriff Ben Stillman, then brings her body home to explain. Her family responds by hunting him through Montana's mountains, prompting Stillman to pursue the men threatening his wounded friend.

An ambush at an abandoned Colorado cavalry post leaves Louisa Bonaventure gravely wounded. Bounty hunter Lou Prophet tracks the seven nightriders responsible, following them into a town whose hidden scandals complicate his effort to avenge his partner.

Pinkerton agents Bear Haskell and Raven York try seeing other people to escape the complications of their attraction. A new assignment brings them together again, forcing the argumentative partners to balance criminal investigations with their persistent personal entanglement.

Gideon Hawk learns that wealthy outlaw businessman Quentin Burnett has abducted Jennie Broyles in Idaho. With help from Saradee Jones, he challenges a man who exploits kidnapped women and relies on powerful connections and hired gunmen to evade justice.

Lou Prophet and Louisa Bonaventure capture killer Chaz Savidge, then try transporting him from Dakota Territory to Denver. Rival bounty hunters shadow them, hoping to steal their prisoner and claim his reward, while a grieving widow poses another danger.

A cougar kills Clay Carmody's young ranching partner, drawing the reluctant ghoul hunter toward Sanctuary, New Mexico. The same creature terrorizes the stormbound town and seems immune to bullets, forcing Carmody to seek help from a demon-hunting witch.

Sheriff Ben Stillman rescues a kidnapped doctor and arrests outlaw Hettie Styles, who places a bounty on him. The arrival of a former enemy with reasons for revenge adds another threat as Stillman waits to transfer his prisoner.

Mail-order bride Mattie Anderson travels from Minnesota to a Colorado ranch, where her intended husband and a nearby grave raise alarming questions. Lou Prophet's pursuit of train robber Frank Beauregard intersects with her increasingly dangerous attempt to begin married life.

After accidentally shooting an innocent woman, Gideon Hawk pursues outlaw Pima Miller into Arizona's Superstition Mountains. Miller has kidnapped a young guide, while hostile terrain, Apache resistance, and a secretive prospector protecting hidden gold complicate Hawk's chase.

Deputy Marshal Bear Haskell investigates the murder of his old friend Lou Cameron in Diamondback, Wyoming. Cameron's widow is also Bear's former lover, making her possible involvement especially troubling as fresh graves and an ambush deepen the case.

Sheriff Ben Stillman arrests Johnny Nevada for a murder supported by questionable evidence. The presiding judge, furious that Johnny impregnated his daughter, refuses to step aside, leaving Stillman concerned about justice while a bank robbery disrupts a local wedding.

Returning home after pursuing whiskey smugglers, Ben Stillman meets a saloon owner whose establishment was robbed and an employee murdered. Their pursuit of two young killers leads into the Missouri Breaks, an approaching winter storm, and an outlaw hideout.

Young cowboy Lonnie Gentry spends the night comforting a dying gunshot victim in supposedly cursed Skull Canyon. When armed men arrive searching for something they will kill to possess, his fear of the curse becomes entangled with human threats.

After marrying Mattie Anderson, Lou Prophet finds himself wounded and confused in the Mexican desert. Cutthroats led by Pinkerton detective Wolcott pursue him for missing train loot, forcing the bounty hunter to reconstruct how his marriage led to this predicament.

Deputy Marshal Bear Haskell travels to Texas to capture contract killer Jack Hyde, known as the Jackal. With no reliable description of his target, Bear joins Pinkerton detective Arliss Posey to investigate shootings near Sundown and uncover the killer's identity.

Drawing on his experience writing westerns and other fiction, Peter Brandvold discusses storytelling techniques and changes in publishing. Practical advice on hooks, dialogue, pacing, plotting, and characterization appears alongside autobiographical essays and short fiction in this collection.

Two stories follow bounty hunters Lou Prophet and Louisa Bonaventure. In The Devil's Ambush, they face attackers who nearly kill Louisa; in Bring Me the Head of Chaz Savidge!, rival hunters threaten their attempt to deliver a captured killer.

This western duo collects Once More with a Vengeance and Rattlesnake Convention. Sheriff Ben Stillman questions the evidence against a murder suspect facing a hostile judge, then pursues two young killers into dangerous country as a winter storm approaches.

Shotgun rider Dag Enberg surrenders a valuable strongbox after outlaws abduct his pregnant wife. Accused of conspiring in the theft, he pursues the gang into Mexico, while a second adventure finds his brawling habits threatening his livelihood again.

Transporting a former friend to trial with recovered bank loot, Ben Stillman takes a fleeing woman and her son under his protection. A vengeful rancher pursues them, while the prisoner's betrayed gang also wants the sheriff dead and money returned.

Outlaws rob a stagecoach carrying Ben Stillman's wife Fay and Doctor Clyde Evans, taking them hostage to treat a wounded gang member. Stillman's rescue pursuit is complicated by a rancher's separate posse, determined to recover its stolen money.

The first six Yakima Henry novels follow a gunfighter of white and Cheyenne ancestry across the western frontier. Seeking a home and companionship, he encounters hostility from both communities while his violent reputation repeatedly undermines chances of lasting peace.

After a mysterious gunman saves Yakima Henry and his partner from thieves, they find their rescuer dead with a cache of gold. Yakima attempts to deliver it to the man's family, facing human and animal predators in snowy Wyoming.

Collecting Yakima Henry books seven through twelve, this omnibus follows the wandering gunfighter through pursuits, imprisonment, gold seeking, and dangerous journeys into Mexico. His stallion Wolf accompanies him as enemies and troubled romances repeatedly interrupt his search for belonging.

Yakima Henry serves as marshal of booming Apache Springs, where the railroad brings more trouble than three lawmen can control. This collection includes Bloody Arizona, Wildcat of the Sierra Estrada, Chiracahua Blues, and Canyon of Death, alongside romantic complications involving sisters.

When bounty hunter Ulysses Lodge shoots Jane Ford, Bloody Joe Mannion pursues him into the snowy Sawatch Range. Meanwhile, deputy Henry McCallister's attraction to a schoolteacher leads him and his former sweetheart toward hidden treasure and dangerous revelations.

After outlaws burn his home and assault his daughter, Marshal Joe Mannion arrests rancher's son Whip Helton. Whip's father threatens to destroy Del Norte unless he is released, setting Joe against powerful interests willing to sacrifice justice for investment.

Gideon Hawk pursues Pima Miller into the Superstition Mountains after a bullet intended for the killer strikes an innocent woman. Miller abandons his infant son and kidnaps a young guide, leaving Hawk determined to stop him despite his own guilt.

Joe Mannion suspects former prisoner Hunter Drago has settled in Del Norte to kill him, though others accept Drago's claim of peaceful intentions. Joe's hostility alienates the town as the confrontation threatens both him and his lover Jane Ford.

After Frank Lord murders constable Jeremiah Claggett, Joe Mannion blames himself for placing Lord's brother in Claggett's custody. He pursues vengeance through Colorado's San Juan Mountains, unaware that the constable's granddaughter and a mysterious drifter are following him.

Joe Mannion and junior deputy Henry McCallister capture violent outlaw Mathilda Calderon, wanted to testify against her boyfriend over stolen Army Gatling guns. Federal marshals prepare to escort her to Tucson, while Joe hopes her testimony will reveal the weapons' location.

Gideon Hawk kills three men attempting to rob a Cedar Bend saloon, including a prominent rancher's son. The father sends gunmen for revenge, turning Hawk's stop for a drink into a conflict that threatens the entire prairie town.

Marshal Joe Mannion transports outlaw Buzzard Lee while encountering a woman who has lost her memory. An older marshal denies knowing her, but hidden connections and dangerous secrets make the journey far more complicated than a routine prisoner transfer.

Matt Severance returns home hoping to clear his name, only to find his father’s ranch entangled with stolen mining money. Joe Mannion investigates a killing while protecting Matt and searching for loot that has made the family a target.

After Flint Henry kills Joe Mannion, recovering stolen loot leaves him wounded and dependent on two orphaned children. Pursuing a criminal gang and a crooked rancher, he must also protect Sam and Ilsa from the violence surrounding them.

Outlaws kidnap Joe Mannion’s family to force the marshal into a deadly train robbery. Saving his loved ones means confronting the gang’s demands and the danger of a final showdown where his duties and family’s survival collide.

Loner Anders Nordic rescues a stray dog named Finn while working in the mountains. Their new companionship draws him into a conflict with a powerful banker’s son, hired gunmen and a range war that threatens his hopes of peace.

Hired to keep rustlers and settlers off a Colorado rancher's land, Nordic encounters a vulnerable family from Dakota. Choosing to protect them threatens his employment and puts him amid a violent cattle war, complicated by forbidden attraction.

Anders Nordic and Finn find work with a Dakota family farming Colorado’s Never Summer country. His growing connection with their daughter turns dangerous when violence destroys the family, leaving him determined to protect a mother and infant from further attacks.

Newly married Nordic and Alexandria face a senator bent on revenge for the destruction of his family's land. With mercenaries threatening their ranch and unborn child, Nordic and Finn must confront a blood feud rooted in the past.

Anders Nordic marries Alexandria Deveraux and prepares for fatherhood, but attacks on their land threaten the new family. With an old rancher killed and Senator McClellan pursuing vengeance, Nordic and his dog Finn must confront the gunmen closing in.

A battered young woman reaches Nordic's mountain camp seeking help, drawing him toward a mining town controlled by a violent self-styled prophet. With Finn beside him, he joins unlikely allies to recover stolen money and free the captives.

Wolves descend on Nordic's mountain ranch, killing cattle and men while rustlers exploit the chaos. Finn's unusual fear suggests something older lurks beyond the pack, leaving Nordic struggling to protect his family against a threat guns may not stop.