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Illustrated rugged landscape of Coldwater Pass

The Lovett Westerns / Book One

Coldwater
Pass.

A stranger rides into Redstone Crossing. The sheriff knows he's trouble. Neither man is prepared for what the past has left behind.

Coldwater Pass, A Lovett Western Book One, by J. D. Lunsford
Written by J. D. LunsfordArizona Territory / 1882A Lovett Western / Book One

The series · In preparation

Two novels. One town.
A history still unfolding.

Coldwater Pass book cover

Book One

Coldwater Pass

The beginning of the Lovett Westerns. A stranger, a sheriff, and an old debt.

In preparation · Coming soon
THE BROKEN LINEThe Broken Line, A Lovett Western Book Two, illustrated cover

Book Two

The Broken Line

The story of Redstone Crossing continues. A broken boundary, gathering riders, and a town whose troubles are far from finished.

In preparation · Coming soon

A third Lovett Western is planned. No title or release schedule has been announced.

The story

A lawman.
A stranger.
Old debts.

The beginning of the Lovett Westerns

For seven years, Sheriff Jesse Lovett has kept the peace in Redstone Crossing the way his father taught him: steady, careful, and slow to trust anyone who rides in strange.

Then Sterling Bragg comes to town. What follows leads Jesse toward a twenty-five-year-old secret tied to his own family, a mountain pass few speak of, and the water the whole town depends on.

In Redstone Crossing, the past has a way of returning when least expected.

Publication news and reading links will appear here when the novels are released.

First introductions / Book One

Faces from Redstone.

Meet four central figures without spoiling what their stories reveal.

Front Street in Redstone Crossing, Arizona Territory

Redstone Crossing / Arizona Territory

Every town has a history.
This one keeps secrets.

Find the sheriff's office, the Quarter Note, the mercantile and the roads leading out of town.

Enter Redstone Crossing
Illustration of the Quarter Note

After the final page

There is more to the town.

Explore supplemental fiction, illustrated places, and the people living at the edges of the novels. More tales from Redstone Crossing will appear in the Reading Room.

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