Modernwestern Stories

A band on the run. Two lost on back roads and borrowed stages, becoming legends they never asked to be. A boy survives a killing, and a knife changes everything. Nothing stays simple after that. Kid falls fast-chasing love in every woman he meets, believing each one might be the answer. But it never lasts. Two voices won't let him rest: Midnight whispers: leave. Be free. Dawn answers: stay. Be known. He wants both. He loses both. Chance only falls once-and it breaks him. So he turns to the road, the music, and the spaces between towns, trying to become something that can survive what he's become. When their paths begin to cross, love becomes heavier than desire. A force. A cost. A choice neither of them is ready to make. Because freedom and love don't come clean. And staying always asks for something in return. Kid and Chance are two sides of the same coin, navigating a Modern Western steeped in magical realism, ancestral myths, and the high‑stakes world of honky‑tonks and rock legends. ✨ Magical Realism | 🏜️ Modern Western | 🎸 Musician POV "Some men learn how to change. The rest become The Dead Cowboys."

POINT OF ROCKS is a gritty, character-driven Western about what happens when order finally arrives in a place built on forgetting. Sent west by a powerful U.S. Marshal in New York, Sheriff Joel Walsh takes charge of Point of Rocks-a lawless stagecoach town drowning in whiskey, gambling, and fear. Joel isn't a gunman chasing glory. He's a man who listens, waits, and stays long enough for chaos to reveal itself. Out on the trails, three men keep the night alive. James, fast and reckless. Chip, a gambler who dreams of land he never buys. Gary, quiet, watchful, and dangerous because he knows better. They don't rob to get rich. They rob to drink, to gamble, to forget. As the town tightens and the wilderness presses in, Joel draws a line-quietly, firmly-knowing that holding it will cost him something no badge can protect. POINT OF ROCKS is a modern Western in the tradition of classic frontier lawmen, exploring justice, loneliness, and the price of staying when running would be easier.

Set in the agricultural heart of California's Central Valley, Lowlands is a sweeping multi-decade family saga that traces the rise, fracture, and uneasy survival of the Del Plata family. When Elias Del Plata inherits his family's failing ranch in 2001, he takes on a responsibility he was never meant to carry. What begins as reluctant duty slowly erodes into quiet failure, straining his marriage to Lorraine-a woman determined to maintain the illusion of success at any cost-and shaping the lives of their children in ways neither of them fully understand. As the years pass, the Del Plata family splinters. Vivi, the eldest, escapes as soon as she can, leaving behind a home that never quite felt like hers. Rafe, the only son, grows up in the shadow of his father's shortcomings, inheriting not just the land but the burden of redeeming it. Paloma, born into the family's unraveling, comes of age amid absence, resentment, and unanswered questions. Told through shifting perspectives across two decades, Lowlands explores inheritance, identity, and the cost of loyalty to both land and blood. As drought, debt, and time reshape the ranch, each member of the family must decide what they are willing to carry-and what they are willing to abandon. In the end, the land endures. Whether the family does is another matter.

A contemporary romantic drama inspired by a Morgan Wallen song. A young woman (Maiyadee) and a western cowboy (Cole) find love when Cole travels to California for what was supposed to be a college trip. In a short amount of time, the story takes a turn for the worse and both characters experience a consequence. Find out in the book and let me know what you think!

A collection of stories following a man named Jack, who spent his whole life trying to leave his past behind. Suddenly, he's dragged back into his hometown and his old memories are pulled from the shelves to admire during long nights of drinking.

A Tourist Trap forsaken by Route 66 has been held in a constant state of terror. What would have been a gimmick to bring back the tourists has become an endless deluge of tyranny. A cry goes out for true justice, and on the steel wheels of his fiery steed comes the newest, hotshot cowboy of the 21st Century: The Bulleteer! Meet the Hotshot Cyborg Marshal of the Standing Guard, and one of the many heroes that make up the Grummsverse.

Nolan Holloway didn't ask for a legacy-he inherited it. A year after his father's mysterious death on Slumgullion Pass, Nolan Holloway finds himself running the small, weathered gas station his father once called a "retirement project." The summer brought overwhelming tourists and fleeting success, but now the fall is quiet, the winter is coming, and the station sits on the brink. The offer from corporate giant Lucky's Quick Stop could be Nolan's way out-an easy escape from a failing business and the haunting questions surrounding his father's final days. But selling means more than handing over the keys; it means giving up on the last piece of his father's dream. In a town divided between locals struggling to survive and second-home owners who leave with the snow, Nolan must fight to keep the station alive. As he wrestles with guilt, exhaustion, and the ghosts of his past, he faces an impossible choice: give up or rebuild. With every creak of the old pumps and whisper of the mountain wind, Last Stop Before Slumgullion Pass explores the weight of family, the pull of legacy, and one man's determination to hold on when everything around him says to let go.

The Villain. A greedy business owner who values wealth more than human life. The Oppressed. The Death of hundreds of workers in a terrible tragedy. A young girl stolen from her home. Their Saviour. Appearing from nowhere, his clothes speak of wealth, his actions of humbleness, but is he truly the person that they think he is?

Former Navy Seal, CIA Contractor and federal Law Enforcement Officer Nathan Stone. Becomes private Law Enforcement Consultant.

Little Joe and his older brother Hoss go mudding. When Adam discovers them tearing up the southern pastures Hoss deserts Joe, who then has to hid the torn up terrain of the southern pastures from his father, Ben Cartwright, who will definitely not be pleased to see the fruit of his son's antics. (My Bonanza stories take place in Modern day Colorado/New Mexico area, whereas the original Bonanza TV shows were set in Nevada.)