The Crazy Old Cat Guy, Chapter 1, “Catching A Cat”

It was quiet, but I knew something was hiding.  The silence was perfect because I would be able to hear the critter move.  I crawled my old body painfully further under the wild ferns.  I grinned.  The wild thing would soon be mine.  A black foot padded by, only five feet away.  I heard its fur brush against dry leaves.

     “Not quite as sneaky as me, are you?”  I inched forward just a bit more, very close to the striking position I knew I needed to be in.

     I wiggled the fingers on my extended hand just a little.  Enough to be noticed but not enough to frighten.  Curiosity was my best weapon to catch a cat.  A light pounce and a victorious meow, plus new scratches on my fingers, told me the cat thought it had won.

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Matt Kemp – U.S. Marshal (Book 1)

I’ve always wanted to write a series and when the idea came for “Matt Kemp – U.S. Marshal” I knew I was onto something.  The first book is how Kemp first joined the Matt Kemp U.S. MarshalU.S. Marshal Service in the Old West.  Known as a gunfighter, Matt brings his unique fighting and deductive skills to taming a lawless land.

I also thought it was important to introduce the Director who introduces Kemp to the Marshal’s badge and all that it stands for.  These two men are like “peas-in-a-pod”, they both have an innate sense of right and wrong and will bring criminals to justice wherever they find them.

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Colson’s Law Western Book Review

Colson's Law A Western Book ReviewColson’s Law tells the story about the infamous gunfighter, Rad Colson, who is hired to escort a preacher and his daughter to the West. Two years previous, Rad had been gunned down and left for dead. Now he dreams about that battle every night in his dreams and now hides in New York, nursing an ever present bottle of whiskey.

Only the attraction of an emerald-eyed heiress persuades Rad to return to the land that had witnessed his defeat. With mounting opposition against her, the heiress attempts to settle her affairs and pleads with the drunken gunfighter to reform himself and strap his twin six-guns on to help her. The conflicts of both can only be settled by Colson’s Law.

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