LARGE TYPE · FICTION
Wade Everett
Also known as: Will Cook, James Keene
William Everett Cook (1921 – July 1964), was a western writer who used the pen names Will Cook, James Keene, Wade Everett and Frank Peace. Called "a master western storyteller," Cook published dozens of short stories and 50 novels before his death at age 42. A number of his stories and novels were turned into Hollywood westerns, including the 1961 John Ford film Two Rode Together. After Cook died in 1964, his Everett byline had become valuable enough that Ballantine Books turned it into a house name for novels written by other authors, including Giles A. Lutz.
The falling rain, silent pit ta pat ta reminds me of a story that must be told.
— from Vengeance
Most acclaimed
Cavalry Recruit
Arizona Territory in 1867 was a raw new land where even the U.S. Army didn't appear to know too much about the Indians-except that they were Apaches, and deadly. And Loch Angevine was a raw new recruit, fresh off the farm, who didn't know much about the army. His ignorance bothered him and he met this challenge with all the dogged determination of his Scottish heritage. He figured he'd learn by studying and copying the best men in the troop. There was no way for Loch to know even the toughest sergeant knew nothing about keeping a whole skin in Indian country. This was something each man had to find out for himself, the hard way-or be dead.
Big man, big mountain
Shaw Dance was a man with a peculiar philosophy - he took from his mountain only the gold and the water and sustenance that he needed. Nor was he about to let anybody, gold seekers or otherwise, take more than just that. The people who lived in Summit, at the foot of Shaw's Mountain, left him strictly alone. But now there was a man - one who didn't care about gold because he had all the money he needed, one who came to challenge the right of any man to sit on a mountain and call it his own - a brash and courageous young man whose only object was to prove that he was bigger than Shaw Dance. This too had happened before. But the difference was that this challenger was one of the Slate boys who owned the valley that Shaw's Mountain brooded over- this challenge meant a war.
The Warrior
Bestselling author Nicole Jordan weaves a breathtakingly sensuous story of love and passion between the valiant Ariane of Claredon and the fierce knight who loses his heart to her. . . .For five turbulent years Ariane has dutifully prepared herself for marriage to King Henry's most trusted vassal, the legendary Norman knight Ranulf de Vernay. But cruel circumstance has branded Ariane's father a traitor to the crown. And now Ranulf is returning to Claredon, not as a bridegroom . . . but as a conqueror.Survivor of a hellish youth, Ranulf knows well the treacheries of noblewomen--and mistrusts the regal, defiant beauty to whom he was once betrothed. But while he shields his wounded heart with impenetrable armor, she sears his soul with sensuous fire. Ranulf may have vowed to claim her lands and her body as his prize, but ultimately it is the mighty warrior who must surrender to Ariane's proud, determined passion--and her remarkable healing love.From the Paperback edition.