Wheeler Western
9 total works
"Yakima Henry has been dealt more than his share of trouble -- even for a half-white, half-Indian in the West. Now he's running a small Arizona horse ranch with his longtime love, Faith, and thinks he may have finally found his share of peace and prosperity. But his violent past is about to come calling. Bill Thornton still has the wound from where Faith -- once his most valuable working girl -- shot him just before being carried away by that low-down breed Yakima. Suffering from a bad case of blood poisoning, the roadhouse proprietor carries a heart full of hatred for both of them. That's why he's sent a gang of sadistic bounty hunters to kill Yakima and bring faith back to him. And that's why Yakima's long-awaited peace will have to come at the end of a long, bloody trail"--Back cover.
"Yakima Henry may be tougher than anyone else in the Arizona Territory-- as a half-white, half-Indian man, he has to be. So when a pack of thieving curs leaves him in rough country minus one prized horse and two well-worn boots, he aims to get back what's his. The hell Yakima raises in the process lands him in jail, but opportunity is about to spring him out. Wealthy Cleve O'Shannon and his lovely wife, Ashley, have a proposition for Yakima. Cleve's brother is trapped on a desolate mesa-- along with a mother lode of silver taken from their mine-- by desperadoes and revolutionaries. The O'Shannons need a hard man to lead them through hell to save their family and their fortune. For his freedom, Yakima agrees. But freedom won't matter if he's not alive to enjoy it."--Page 4 of cover.
When he is rescued by Aubrey Coffin, who, by saving him from a certain death, becomes a target for lawless desperadoes, half-white, half-Indian Yakima Henry tries to save this innocent woman from being caught in the cross fire.
Trapped in the forsaken town of Dead River, where the townsfolk are out for his blood and for his gold, half-breed Yakima Henry, desperate to find a doctor to care for his wounded friend, must weather the oncoming storm, as well as a killer.