Books with author Edward McDermott

A collection of six Western stories; over twenty thousand words of entertainment.The Horse ThiefIn 1875, Mike Thornton came to Dodge City, Kansas to arrest a horse thief and take him back to Texas alive, no matter what anyone else had planned. Why? It was his brother.The Lonely WindDorothy loved flowers, books and company; that was only natural for a teenage girl. However, on a farm in the middle of nowhere, she was so lonely she risked everything when she ran away.The Buffalo HuntIn 1847, on the Oregon Trail, Padric MacCarthy led a band of buffalo hunters. The wagon trains needed the meat.The Cripple of PiocheIn 1872, in Pioche Nevada, Jack Wheelock lost his leg in a mining accident. How could he earn money to send home to his mother? He couldn’t run from trouble, so he had to face it.AbileneIn 1867 the money was no good. Captain Mason Baxter planned to bring cattle out of Texas despite the carpetbaggers, the Comanches, and the jayhawkers, even if he had to drive them to the gates of perdition, by himself.Belle Takes a HusbandIn the spring of 1867, Belle O’Reilly came to a conclusion there wasn’t an acceptable husband to be had within a hundred miles. When she did find one, she wasn’t going to let a range war stop her.

A romantic adventure featuring unique magic, interplanetary travel, angry gods and star-crossed lovers.Asher, daughter of the sun god, is the first magician born in three hundred years with the Gift of Engineering: the ability to control the portals that bind together a thousand magical worlds into a single network. A great destiny seems inevitable…until she meets her soulmate, Rex. Soulmates, crafted at birth by the Fates, share a single lifeline, a joint destiny. From the moment Asher’s eyes lock with Rex’s across the school courtyard, they are bound together, for better or worse. But as Asher researches this newfound magical connection, she discovers a horrifying truth: That soulmates are the gods’ way of stifling those magicians they deem too powerful. That soulmates are always equal and Rex has no magical Gift at all. And that Engineering and ‘mating magic are incompatible. The faster Asher comes to love her soulmate, the faster the Great Gift will leave her. When Lee, a non-binary musician from Earth, is stranded far from home and right on Asher’s doorstep, Asher barely thinks twice before helping them get home. But when this angers the gods even further, Asher is faced with a choice that will define her life forever: Does she want to be an Engineer, or a soulmate?

A romantic adventure featuring unique magic, interplanetary travel, angry gods and star-crossed lovers. Asher, daughter of the sun god, is the first magician born in three hundred years with the Gift of Engineering: the ability to control the portals that bind together a thousand magical worlds into a single network. A great destiny seems inevitable…until she meets her soulmate, Rex. Soulmates, crafted at birth by the Fates, share a single lifeline, a joint destiny. From the moment Asher’s eyes lock with Rex’s across the school courtyard, they are bound together, for better or worse. But as Asher researches this newfound magical connection, she discovers a horrifying truth: That soulmates are the gods’ way of stifling those magicians they deem too powerful. That soulmates are always equal and Rex has no magical Gift at all. And that Engineering and ‘mating magic are incompatible. The faster Asher falls in love with Rex, the faster the Great Gift will leave her. When Lee, a non-binary musician from Earth, is stranded far from home and right on Asher’s doorstep, Asher barely thinks twice before helping them get home. But when this angers the gods even further, Asher is faced with a choice that will define her life forever: Does she want to be an Engineer, or a soulmate?

Excerpt from The Old Settler, the Squire, and Little PelegLittle Peleg', Who is made responsible here for the bringing forth of some of the Old Settler's most astounding narratives, is brought into the stories as the veteran's grandson.These sketches, or the larger number of them, appeared originally in the New York Sun, to the Wide circulation of which among discriminating readers the author is indebted for Whatever of popularity they may have gained. None of them has ever been published in book form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Old Settler, the Squire, and Little PelegLittle Peleg', Who is made responsible here for the bringing forth of some of the Old Settler's most astounding narratives, is brought into the stories as the veteran's grandson.These sketches, or the larger number of them, appeared originally in the New York Sun, to the Wide circulation of which among discriminating readers the author is indebted for Whatever of popularity they may have gained. None of them has ever been published in book form.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.