Books

She only ever wanted to be useful. The war showed her what that costs.

Bisbee, Arizona, 1940. Helen Calloway keeps her widowed father's house exactly as her mother left it — the chair no one moves, the two photographs on the mantel, the porcelain parrot with the chip under its wing, the dust that never quite comes clean. She wants only to be...

Her hand found the clot eight days before the leg admitted it. The chart held what the chart could hold.

Bisbee, Arizona, 1955. Helen Calloway works swing shift at the Copper Queen — a combat nurse home from France, competent, unremarkable, and careful to stay that way.

Saturdays she rides up past where the trail thins to nothing, carrying a...

She felt it the night before: a strain in the rock under her own porch, pointed north-northwest, and holding. At six the next morning the valley let go.

Pasadena, 1971. Helen Calloway has her name on a practice door and a bungalow she paid for herself. What her hands do has never once appeared in a chart.

She reads bodies. A heart arguing with...

Elizabeth McClanahan built everything she had from nothing. Orphaned at four, married at eighteen to a man as quiet and landless as herself, she walked west with him into Missouri and raised ten children on ground they cleared with their own hands. Every bit of it earned. None of it given.

Then the war came for her sons.

On September 27, 1864,...

He was a soldier fighting for a future that betrayed him. Now he must become a ghost to survive its memory.

In the blood-soaked deserts of the Mexican Revolution, Antonio Montiel is a man caught between two worlds. As a Yaqui warrior, he fights for the return of his ancestral lands, guided by his grandfather’s spiritual teachings of the “First...

In the shadow of the Mexican Revolution, one man chooses the mountain over mercy—and discovers that survival demands he become something more than human.

1924, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Territory

Antonio Montiel has a new name now: Tohua—"the one who leaves behind." After surviving deportation to the Yucatán henequen plantations and a...

Part of The Ridge Watcher Series

Bee Adkins goes out each morning the way most men go to work: practical, precise, and with the little rituals that keep a dangerous life from seeping into the rest of it. Hired to stop a mountain lion that's been killing calves on the Briggs place, Bee expects a routine trap, a clean kill, and a payday that will...

The vigil is over. The mountain is not finished.

August 1954. The Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona.

For thirty years, Tohua has kept watch from a peak no map shows -- a solitary sentinel guarding a community that descended to the valley, a culture that transformed to survive, a silence the modern world has no use for. Now his heart is failing, and...

Spanning five decades of the tumultuous 20th century, the Bee Adkins series is the epic biographical saga of a man born of the fading American frontier—a master tracker, a legendary hunter, and a reluctant gunhand whose skills were forged in the wild, but whose heart belonged to his family.

The journey begins with Bee’s harsh upbringing in Texas...

To help his family, he had to become a legend. But legends in the Old West are paid for in blood.

In the unforgiving backcountry of the early 1900s, young Bee Adkins learns survival is a lesson taught with a hard hand. Raised under a pious, temperamental father, Bee’s skill with a rifle isn’t a hobby—it’s the only thing keeping his family from...

For a man haunted by his past, peace is the most dangerous frontier of all.

In the vast, unforgiving landscape of the early 20th-century American West, Bee Adkins is a man trying to outrun his own legend. A peerless hunter and tracker haunted by a violent past, he seeks a peaceful, quiet life. He finds a fragile hope for this new beginning in...

For some men, the frontier is not a place on a map, but a way of life.

For Bee Adkins, a master hunter and family man living in the mid-1900s, the old ways are the only ways he knows. As the American West rapidly modernizes around him, Bee relies on his legendary tracking skills to provide for his wife and children. From hunting mountain lions...

SHELTER

He was sent to hunt a killer. Now, he’s trapped with it.

Fourteen-year-old Bee Adkins is already a legend in the making. Hired to track a mountain lion preying on livestock in the rugged landscape of 1900s New Mexico, he’s armed with his wits, his dogs, and a Winchester rifle. But in the unforgiving desert, nature is the true predator

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A lost little mouse. A loyal cactus wren. A desert full of adventure.
Cowboy Dan is the heartwarming tale of a curious young mouse who wanders too far from his family and discovers an unexpected world of friendship, courage, and community in the Arizona desert.

When Dan becomes separated from his mother and siblings, he’s rescued by Wilma—a wise,...

In his book "Between Now and Then", Bee Adkins gives us a compilation of never before published stories relating his hunting and trapping experiences, a myriad of wilderness adventures and a few tall tales. Bee takes us through his life and times with his unique perspective. His wry wit and humor come through in his earthy prose as he recounts...