Linell Jeppsen

A HEART FILLED WITH RAGE, RETRIBUTION AND REVENGE...Thirteen-year-old Sweetie Mack's life is turned upside down when Billie Drake and his gang take over her house and kill her father and uncle. Now all alone in life, Sweetie promises herself she will get revenge one day.After twenty years have passed, Sweetie gathers all of her friends to make her move against her old nemesis, Billie Drake. With the help of sheriff Matthew Wilcox the team is ready to extract Count of Monte Cristo - like revenge.For fans of the bestselling, five-star rated Deadman Series, The Lucky Lady Saloon features Matthew Wilcox and his detective agency

Tortured Trail is the second novel in the straight shooting, fast moving, action-adventure Jack Ballard series. In book one - No Man's Land - Ballard helped save a widow and her daughter from a hostile land grab in West Texas. Now, needing some cash, Jack has joined a cattle drive in Bandera, Texas.

The Wilcox and Son Detective Agency is working on its second case file, but Matthew and his son Chance are beginning to think they might have bit off more than they can chew. Their investigation into a series of claim-jumps near the booming mining community of Wallace, Idaho, suddenly turns deadly as one witness after another turns up dead.

In this third book in the Dead Man series, Marshal Matthew Wilcox heads out alone to find and capture one of the worst villains he will ever face.Heartsick, he traces a convoluted trail of murder, mayhem and deceit... from the high gates of the Walla Walla State penitentiary, to Seattle and on into Billings, Montana.Although Matthew feels that he must bear the burden of a "deadman's revenge" by himself, he will find help and succor in his travels from his friends, Sheriff Roy Smithers, Deputy Dicky McNulty, Calamity Jane, Liver Eating Johnson... and his son Chance.Deadman's Revenge- Book three of the best-selling, award-winning series of novels, Deadman's Fury and Deadman's Lament

In 1892, Sheriff Matthew Wilcox learns that his wife's niece, Amelia Winters, has been abducted. Once more, he gathers his posse and hits the trail hunting outlaws. What he discovers shocks, dismays, and angers him: Amelia is only one of hundreds of women kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery.An exotic auction is about to take place and time is of the essence. The sheriff and his posse are making things difficult for the criminals and a pile of money is at stake. The bandits realize, the sooner they can get rid of Sherriff Wilcox, the better.But Matthew and his men won't go down easy.In this much-awaited sequel to DEADMAN'S LAMENT, readers are in for another thrilling Western ride as these dedicated lawmen put their lives at risk seeking justice.

The year is 1872. Twelve-year-old Matthew Wilcox leads a charmed life on his family's sprawling ranch in Washington Territory until a series of tragic events leave him orphaned and in the clutches of a vicious band of outlaws. Threatened by the gang leader's perverted cousin, Top Hat, Matthew also faces Indian attacks and dangerous wildlife.

Nel Higgins is the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Higgins, a deranged Lutheran pastor. After Nel's mother passes away, she finds herself and her sister, Annie, at the mercy of her father in Yankton, Dakota Territory, 1876.

Nine-year-old Daniel Monroe's life is shattered when a wagon train heading west to Oregon from Kentucky is attacked by outlaws and his family is slaughtered. Only luck and reluctant help from a cold and sullen man named Jacob Conrad enables him to survive.Dan follows Jake Conrad into an uncertain future and although his adopted father remains aloof and forever troubled, Dan learns to love the man who is as wild as the land around them, as uncompromising as the weather and, underneath his gruff exterior, as tender as a mountain sunrise.Dan grows strong and tall under Jake's tutelage and over time he learns to hunt and to trap, to build and to farm. He learns to read and write as well but most of all he learns how to shoot because no one knows better than Jake that life is cheap on the American frontier, and if a man wants to keep breathing, he needs to defend and protect what's his. It's a good thing too, because Jake has a powerful and implacable enemy who will leave no stone unturned to hunt Jake and anyone he loves down like a dog. But he has yet to meet The Pistol Man's Apprentice.

Scarred by the Civil War, now a loner by choice, Missouri-born Jack Ballard rides the West in search of trouble. Sometimes he's able to stop it from hurting innocent people--and sometimes he causes it.It can't be helped, though. He is a good man with a fast gun, and in West Texas in the late 1800's, trouble lies around every bend.Only he and his filed-down .44-40 Colt can stop it.