Western Star Books

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Now a brick & mortar bookstore across from the courthouse in historic
Lincoln, New Mexico. Specializing in the work of Elizabeth Fackler & the literature
of the Lincoln County War.

Specializing in fiction about the American West

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Arriving at his mountain home to spend her summer vacation, Lucinda is disappointed to find Devon’s house empty.When he arrives, they have a romantic reunion, but she awakes in the middle of the night to again find him gone. She sees the lights of police cars in his neighbor’s yard and surmises that, being an ex-cop, he is there. He comes back and tells her his neighbor, the widow Natalie Wieland, has been murdered. Not only does he have to explain to Lucinda as well as the police why he was with Natalie the moment she died, but also why he was in her bedroom at three o’clock in the morning. What follows is atrek through guilt and complicity not only for Devon but also for Lucinda and her college-age daughter, Amy. Suspecting any one of them may have killed Natalie, the Chief of Police gropes to find a suspect with a motive. That both the Chief and Devon were having an affair with the widow complicates the investigation, but for Devon the stickler is that Natalie asked for his help the last afternoon of her life. Ignoring her need, he shooed her away upon learning that Lucinda was waiting at home. Now Devon feels obligated to find Natalie’s killer. On the run from a murder he committed in El Paso, he has to act carefully to avoid focusing too much attention on himself. In the small mountain village of southern New Mexico where he has taken up residence, he is perceived as a mysterious stranger, making lying low next to impossible. Lucinda is caught in the crux of wanting to love him and rejecting the emotional turmoil of living with a fugitive. When she accidentally trips and nearly-fatally wounds herself in the same manner the widow was murdered, she questions whether she believes she must debilitate herself in order to live with Devon. Before the killer is found, both Lucinda and Devon face hard truths about themselves and their love for each other.

Finalist in New Mexico Book Awards 2007.

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Seth Strummar won big at the poker tables his last night in Laredo, coming away with $200 in gold coin and the deed to a ranch in Colorado. Thinking to leave Texas and the outlaw life behind, he rides to Allister's cabin to tell him goodbye. But Ben Allister isn't there. Instead Seth finds two women captives Allister had bought off Comancheros: a young girl constantly crying and a mature woman who keeps a stony silence. The other outlaws tell Seth that Allister offered them the girl but ordered them to keep their hands off the woman. Bone Justice

Seth takes both of them as a final message to his former partner that Ben has slipped too low if he's dealing in women. Heading toward a town where he can leave the women with someone who will send them home, Seth realizes Allister will follow and try to get the women back merely to let Seth know no one makes his decisions. Following the Pecos River north toward Santa Fe, Seth becomes embroiled in the women's tragedy and has to stake his life to save them from falling back into Allister's hands. When a young daredevil named Angel Madera joins them, a triangle emerges between him, Seth, and Esther, the young girl who is no longer crying but in the process of being spiritually healed from all she has endured.

The initial, never-before-published novel in the critically-acclaimed Seth Strummar series, Bone Justice is a story with a cruel twist that turns horror into romance.

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Praise for Lucinda's Summer Vacation

A gritty drama with a plot only slightly less complex than its

leading man... a compelling, psychological thriller that never neverstopsaddingtwists and turns... a wholly satisfying read.
                                    -Romance Reviews Today

A romantic suspense tale [inside an] admirably credible sleuth story.
                                                                 -the bestreviews.com

...a story with complex characters that will appeal to fans of psychological drama.
                                                                         -Booklist

Praise for Bone Justice

"Bone Justice continues the Seth Strummar western series with a storyline that is in equal parts horrific and romantic. Elizabeth Fackler's crime fiction has always been celebrated for its low-key but hard-boiled drama. Her careful and evocative prose depicts the outlaw Strummar trying to figure out if his partner has turned into a man who deals in women. In the course of the book we get to know the life stories of three different women who, while true to the era in which they're alive, also hold significance for today, especially in the way Fackler demonstrates the violence they have to endure. Fackler tops herself here by setting the youngest woman on an unspoken spiritual quest--and a believable one--that will redeem a broken life. Elizabeth Fackler has a unique approach to the novel and speaks in a voice all her own. She takes familiar elements and makes them seem startling and new through the dazzle of her prose and the humanity of her forgiving gaze."
Ed Gorman

"Bone Justice is a terrific western thriller starring an outlaw with ethics as Seth feels impelled to rescue two women from his former mentor. Seth is a fascinating character struggling to do the right thing for Esther and Oriana, but not finding it easy as he tries to deliver the vulnerable Esther to her Granny while attempting to help her mentally recover from her ordeal; Oriana with her barriers is even more difficult for him. Fans who appreciate a powerful character driven tale of the old west will want to read Elizabeth Fackler's terrific Southwest frontier thriller and seek Seth's other novels (see ROAD FROM BETRAYAL) as this reviewer plans to do."
Harriet Klausner

"Fackler is a very fine writer, creating with clear and crackling prose the ambiance of the southwestern frontier as well as clearly delineated, sympathetic and realistic characters."

El Paso Times

"Author Fackler's writing is crisp and erudite. She describes a scene so the reader feels as if he is an on-location observer. At times the reader feels he should be part of the conversation due to the personal tone of the characters' voices and the smooth flow of words. To develop characters to this level of reality is Fackler's gift."

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