A Ranger's Trail (The Texas Trail Series) - Softcover

Franklin, Darlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802405878 ISBN 13: 9780802405876

Publisher: Moody Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

This is the fourth book in a six-book series about four generations of the Morgan family living, fighting, and thriving amidst a turbulent Texas history spanning from 1845 to 1896. Although a series, each book can be read on its own.

In 1875 Buck Morgan rode into Mason County with the Texas Rangers to quell the violence stirred up by the actions a vigilantly mob. The Hoo Doo (or bad luck) War erupted as suspected cattle rustlers were murdered by an angry mob.  Former ranger, Scott Cooley, gathers a gang to seek vengeance for the murders. 

Suspected of cattle rustling, Leta Derrick’s husband was murdered by the mob a year earlier. Now she is siding with the rogue ranger, Scott Cooley and refuses to help Buck Morgan stem the tide of violence. 

Will their actions fuel the fire of vengeance? Or will Buck and Leta strike an accord that leads to more than just peace? 

About this title

About the Author

DARLENE FRANKLIN is the author of fourteen contracted books and novellas as well as several hundred short pieces. Two of her books have been finalists in ACFW¿s Book of the year contest: Dressed in Scarlet and A String of Murders. Darlene lives in Oklahoma near her son¿s family. Visit her website www.darlenefranklinwrites.blogspot.com for information on upcoming titles.

From the Back Cover

TEXAS TRAILS

A Morgan Family Series

 

A RANGER’S TRAIL

 

A widow vows to seek vengeance

A Texas Ranger swears to uphold the law

A blood feud splits Mason County in half

 

When Leta Denning's husband is murdered at the beginning of the Mason County War, she wants one thing: revenge. Buck Morgan, a Texas Ranger called in to investigate, has ties to a German family involved in Denning’s death.

 

Buck’s ability to remain impartial and bring the murderer to justice has Leta anxious. As she struggles to keep her ranch afloat, Buck offers to help – all the while searching for the truth.  A tentative trail emerges … one forged by respect and bound by vengeance and forgiveness.

 

Doubt meets faith, and fear gives way to faith in the Morgan family.

 

 

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DARLENE FRANKLIN is an award-winning author of fourteen books and novellas, two of which have been finalists in American Christian Fiction Writers’ Book of the Year contest. Darlene recently returned to cowboy country – Oklahoma! www.darlenefranklinwrites.blogspot.com

 

For information on upcoming titles, visit RiverNorthFiction.com.

 

 

Reviews

In this Christian western, fourth in the Texas Trails series, Leta Derrick seeks justice in the wake of her husband’s lynching. Franklin’s story is drawn from a central Texas range war known both as the Hoo Doo War and the Mason County War, and she’s faithful to what’s known. German American ranchers fought the original, mostly Anglo, settlers over who was rustling cattle and who exacted frontier justice afterward. Leta knows Germans killed her innocent husband, but her love interest is Texas Ranger Buck Morgan, a German American from southeast Texas. He’ll help her rein in her wayward son, Andy, who’s riding with the notorious renegade ranger, Scott Cooley. However, Cooley’s actions—and the war itself—mostly occur offstage, Buck is impossibly nice, and Leta is unrelentingly brave and long-suffering. Certain sequences, such as Buck’s gentle breaking of a colt for Leta’s younger son, stand out, but veteran western readers will tire of Leta’s Bible reading and praying—not to mention her endless cooking. On the other hand, Christian-romance readers will be satisfied. --John Mort

Edition details

• Publisher: Moody Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802405878
• ISBN 13: 9780802405876
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288