First Stories

Arizona Territory, 1884. When feral Gwendolyn Harper is auctioned off in Dry Gulch, rancher Ethan Matthews bids $100—not for a servant, but for the fierce woman who threatened deputies while in chains. On his ranch, Gwen discovers something more dangerous than wilderness: a man who sees her worth and asks only for her choice. Now she must decide whether to run or claim the life she never knew she could have.

Evan Miller shows up to college with a duffel, a toolbox, and boots he won’t part with. When a drunken Sigma Chi hookup lands him at the center of a viral clip—humiliated on a bar stool while the woman who led him on laughs it off—Evan becomes the campus’s nickname and its newest myth: “Boots Guy.” Instead of letting the jokes define him, Evan keeps showing up—on the quad, in labs, in quiet corners—doing the honest work the internet never sees.

Joe Diffie sings a song called "John Deere Green", about a water tower and the message painted on it: Billy Bob loves Charlene. Mr. Diffie heard about that water tower and thought it would make a good song. He just was never told the whole story. Now, in the words of Billy Bob himself, the secret of that water tower and that message and how it affected everybody in town is being told.

Ian Dunlop was not a boy to stand by and watch others who were in trouble. But by any standard, his adventures through his youth were anything but ordinary.

A short western about a young man who never even thought about becoming a Bounty Hunter, until he was broke. Meet Hoyt Malone and ride with him as he takes on an Indian Outlaw, a bank robber, killers - a Grizzly and a blizzard on The Continental Divide. Then, before it's over there'll be - Blood On The Border -

A speeding car in his neighborhood, an accident in his front yard, a young person found under his bird of paradise, then a little thief stole his heart. All this started a new life for Charles Xavier Cooper.

From a very young age Abbie was determined to get the man she loved. Nothing would separate them. No matter what!