.That sets Caitlin and Cort Wesley off on a trail winding through the past and present with terrible truths dating all the way back to the Mexican Revolution and the dogged battle Caitlin's own grandfather and great-grandfather fought against the first generation of Mexican drug dealers.Mexico, 1919: The birth of the Mexican drug trade begins with opium being smuggled across the United States border, igniting an all-out battle with American law enforcement in general and the Texas Rangers in particular. There's a strong rain coming and only Caitlin and Cort Wesley can stop it.

But that's just the beginning of her problems..

Over the years she's taken on all manner of criminals and miscreants, thwarting the plans of villains to do vast damage to the country and state she loves.

Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in Jon Land's Strong Cold Dead, a thriller with heart-stopping action and a high-stakes terrorist plotThe terrorist organization ISIS is after a deadly toxin that could be the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer.

But he’s never taken on the likes of Caitlin Strong and her outlaw lover, Cort Wesley Masters.

The Present: His daughter, fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, finds herself on the trail of that same cargo when skeletal remains are found near an excavation site in the Texas desert. She’s also dealing with the aftermath of a massacre that claimed the lives of all the workers at a private intelligence company on her watch.

On top of that, she’s dealing with the inexplicable tragedy of a small Texas town where all the residents died in a single night.

A mechanically inclined orphan who lives in the basement of a sanitarium is urged to “make new friends.This is the Clockwork Century.

* Exclusive Behind the Mic Interview with the Authors Charlaine Harris and Christopher Golden & Director Richard Rohan included with download.Charlaine Harris says "Wow! What a pleasant surprise! Graphic Audio has knocked this audiobook out of the graveyard! I can't wait to hear the next installment.

She has been living—hiding out—in Dunhill Cemetery ever since someone left her there to die. Until the night she witnesses a murder that shatters her life—a life now under a police microscope—as their investigation threatens to uncover Calexa’s true identity…. The only living people she allows herself to interact with are Kelner, the cemetery’s cantankerous caretaker, and Lucinda Cameron, an elderly woman who lives in an old Victorian house across the street.

In some ways, that’s true.They call her the Ghost of Dunhill Cemetery, but most people think “the Cemetery Girl” is just a story. Now, if someone dies near her, their spirit is drawn to Calexa, drawn into her.

In her search for him, she will discover her control of magic, but risk losing herself utterly.. Winter, a tiellan woman whose people have long been oppressed by humans, is married to and abandoned by Knot on the same day.

.A new religion is rising, gathering followers drawn by rumors of prophetess Jane Oden. Her sister, Cinzia - onetime Cantic priestess - is by her side but fears that Jane will lead them to ruin. And beyond the Blood Gate in the northern empire of Roden, a Tiellan woman finds herself with a new protector.

A new religion is rising, gathering followers drawn by rumors of prophetess Jane Oden. Her sister, Cinzia - onetime Cantic priestess - is by her side but fears that Jane will lead them to ruin. One who wants to use her extraordinary abilities for his own ends.

Meanwhile, the heretic sisters Jane and Cinzia Oden are beset by supernatural attacks.As new battles are fought, the Daemons creep ever closer to freedom, and the legend of the Chaos Queen may soon be made anew.

The Nine Daemons are on the rise. And soon their allies, the vampire-girl Astrid and the former assassin Knot, must face the terrifying Black Matron. Meanwhile, the heretic sisters Jane and Cinzia Oden are beset by supernatural attacks.

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But Winter is still struggling with her addictions and anger; Knot's efforts to be reunited with her can only lead to disappointment.All parties converge on the capital city, Triah - Cinzia and the Odenites to establish their new religion and appeal against a charge of heresy; Knot and Astrid to find answers in the vampire girl's past; and Winter has come to conquer the city, at the head of a tiellan army.

And Winter, the Chaos Queen herself, realizes she must finally choose sides and face the greatest test of her life: finding the humility to seek help.Nothing is as it seems.

Knot, still reeling from a shocking death, tries to put himself back together in time to fight. Only the unlikely alliance formed between the two former Nazaniin assassins, Code and Kali, stands in its way.. Two ex-Nazaniin assassins, Code and Kali, form an unlikely alliance.

Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Forth Worth. A Texas rancher named Big Jim Conyers has a deal with Scottish-born, Wyoming cattleman named Duff MacCallister.

Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors, among them a beautiful young woman with a dark past, a merchant seaman turned rancher, and a senator with his very ill young daughter.

Even if it takes a miracle…. Two hard-willed men who believe in the settlers' dreams with all their hearts--and who will get them to their destination by Christmas.

But the day before they're sentenced to hang, the Cave brothers escape their fate... It's a desperate bind to be stuck in, but Duff and the Jensens will use every bullet they can find to shoot their way into a bloody but merry Christmas.

Unfortunately, she’s engaged to one of the outlaw gang that’s gunning for Luke’s bounty…This year, the Jensen family is in for a stormy Christmas they will never forget—and one deadly showdown they may never survive…. Meanwhile, Smoke and Sally Jensen head out from Fort Worth by stagecoach, only to be stranded by unrelenting rains—and stalked by a crazed Commanche killer.As winter descends on the great state of Texas, the Jensen family faces off with renegades, rivals, and one raging storm—in this special yuletide adventure from America’s beloved western storytellers…While most folks are busy preparing for Christmas, the tightknit Jensen clan can only hope they’ll make it home.

At the Sugarloaf Ranch, Smoke and Sally Jensen prepare to welcome Preacher home for the holidays—unaware that their friend is trailed by a storm full of trouble. But they’re going to have to fight for it..

What could possibly go wrong? Mother Nature is the first to strike, dusting up the trail with a sandstorm as blinding and deadly as any northern blizzard.William W. Johnstone deliver a special holiday gift for devoted fans of the Jensen saga--a warmhearted story of burning revenge, blazing bullets, and other Jensen family traditions.

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.. But then, for the Jensen family, danger is just another holiday tradition.

Ever since he left Scotland to start a new life in America, Duff MacCallister has stayed true to the values and traditions of his clan in the Highlands. Together, these two bloodthirsty bands of killers and thieves are teaming up to make this one Christmas the MacCallisters will never forget.