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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


The California Trail by Max McCoy

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Also by Max McCoy:

The California Trail, November 2022
Mass Market Paperback
American Odyssey, March 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
The Ghost Rifle, June 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book

THE CALIFORNIA TRAIL
By: Max McCoy

Pinnacle
November 2022
On Sale: October 25, 2022
Featuring: Jack Picaro; Gus Picaro
320 pages
ISBN: 078604697X
EAN: 9780786046973
Mass Market Paperback
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Literature and Fiction Literary

From Max McCoy, the Spur Award-winning author of Damnation Road, comes a powerful new novel in the acclaimed Ghost Rifle series—the epic Western saga of a man who made a gun, and a gun that triggered vengeance…

A RIFLE’S LEGACY, A KILLER’S QUEST
 
It is 1849. More than twenty years since Jack Picaro invented the legendary Ghost Rifle. Ever since, he has been a man on the run. Haunted by his past, plagued by his debts—and wanted for murder—Jack fled to the mountains, unaware that his name has been cleared of all charges. Now there is only one person hunting him down. The son he never knew he had. A son who vows to find him—and kill him—as revenge…
 
Gus Picaro is only twenty-four, but has blazed a bold trail across the American West. From fighting in the Mexican War to prospecting for gold in California, he has sought his own fortune. From the Mosquito Range in Colorado to the open plains of Montana and Utah, he has searched for the father who abandoned him. Finally, arriving at a remote pony express station—with his finger on the trigger of his father’s Ghost Rifle—Gus will meet the famous Jack Picaro face to face. And together, the two men will meet their fates. For better or worse. Dead or alive…

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