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Eleven-year-old Pinkie Starlight is having a not-great summer. Her best friend is off at camp to make pine-cone necklaces or maybe new friends. Pinkie's Great Gran says friends are easier lost than found, but she doesn't always remember her own friends, how to use the remote or that Pinkie isn't her precious daughter who got run over by a car. When Jack, a snarky stray cat, slips uninvited into the house, GG seems like her old self. Turns out, Jack's not just any cat and has mysterious memories tied to GG's past, more than nine lives, and magical abilities.

There is a thin wall between our world and that of the Fae. During times of war, it is easily stepped through. The passions and emotions stirred by violence and combat bleed over, and the supernatural often awake from long slumber to meddle in mortal affairs. But there have always been those among us who have been willing to meet the supernatural threat with cold steel, burning hearts, and grim determination.

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Bill McClane and Limpy Jim SMith struggle to find a justifiable use for their newfound wealth, finally buying a huge ranch in eastern Montana Territory on which to raise that which they had almost shot to extinction: Buffalo. The big place come with problems of its own. Meanwhile, Lynn Sloan is busy helping Wells Fargo track down the outlaws preying on its gold shipments.

Ben Hite, veteran of the recent Civil War, former member of Berdan's sniper Regiment, ventures west to the Montana gold fields searching for prosperity and a new life. While working his claim, he becomes embroiled in the looming struggle against the organized lawless element which is preying upon the miners. He also becomes responsible for a group of orphaned children, who desperately cling to the man who rescued them from death in the fierce Montana winter.

After coming home, a bitter love affair then causes Toby to answer Roosevelt's request for help with the plight of American missionaries in China, and they become engulfed in the Boxer Rebellion. Never forgetting his dream of owning a horse ranch, Grounds afterward returns home to Eastern Montana. He ekes out a sparse existence for himself and his family by becoming a bounty hunter - an occupation as deadly as his battles in the various wars America fights during T. S. Grounds' gripping story.

The last novel in the series Home Ranch continues the family saga into the 1950s where Toby's son, Matthew, struggles to build a ranch, pursuing his father's dream. He passes on his love of the land, courage, and strong will to survive to his son, Gable, who endures the horrors of the Korean War to find his own destiny. Gable survives the bloody battles of the Korean War, only to come home to unexpected danger on his own land. Home Ranch can be listened to as a stand-alone novel or enjoyed as book four of the Montana Saga.

This novel completes the riverboat series, as Caleb, Harvey, and Storm experience the rigors of the Civil War and its aftermath. Together, the two men take on vicious river pirates, Indians, and Confederate guerillas, while Storm seeks desperately to return to her heritage, the Indian life in the Rocky Mountains.

Times are desperate and the buffalo are nearly hunted out when Cil'mi discovers the gems hidden in Piper Harris's old coat. While they head to California to sell them, Sloan's team takes on a band of hard-fighting bank robbers hiding in the high mountains of Colorado. Shooting erupts as both groups - law and lawless - meet their destiny on the western frontier. (This is a sequel to Outlaw.)

Caleb Shaw comes out of the mountains and becomes a riverboat man, working the steamboats on the treacherous Missouri and the mighty Mississippi. It tells the story of Lucian Lambeau, his fat French sidekick, Bulgann, the Russian bosun, and Storm, the little Indian girl rescued by Caleb from the river after a tornado hits an Indian camp. The shanty Irish of St. Louis are depicted, with their bitter gang rivalries.

The early 1880s finds Frank and Matthew, with their adopted son, Toby, working to make a stake hunting buffalo on the Montana Plains. They run afoul of Stringer Jack's band of horse thieves as they attempt to start a horse ranch on the Yellowstone River, hoping to sell mounts to Fort Keogh's cavalry. Lloyd's novel contains historical facts as accurately portrayed as possible, while still a work of fiction full of interesting characters and the use of vintage firearms such as the old Sharps rifles, Henry rifles, and the colt pistol.

Two confederates meet on the battlefield and become friends during the Civil War. After the conflict is over, the men go west to make a new start. War-weary and restless, they find it hard to settle down.Their journey takes them to Texas where they find work as rangers, then to Kansas, hunting buffalo, and finally to Montana, to see and experience the gold camps there.

After Ben's death at the hands of the Danites, his family and old partners are bent on revenge, and with the help of their Crows, they follow the trail of the murderers into the Mormon stronghold. There, the old Mormon assassin Porter Rockwell and his henchmen are brought to bay, and frontier justice is served out.

Ben and his followers trek into the Paiute and Navajo country in an attempt to find a little boy. The youngster is a lost survivor of the Mountain Meadow Massacre, sold into slavery to the Navajos. Together, the Sharpshooters take on Brigham Young's Mormon Militia again, and Young seeks his revenge. It takes all Ben's skills and that of his friends to stay alive while they battle the Danites, savage tribes, and the murderous scalpers along the way.

Fort Sarpy tells the story of the American Fur Company's most dangerous post. The fort was built on the Yellowstone River in 1850 for the trade with the Crow. This audiobook is about Fort Sarpy, the American Fur Company men who dared to build it in the wilderness, and the Crow tribe, who owe their existence to its creation.

Lord James Hamilton, a cashiered British Army officer, flees his home country after a series of duels threatens to end his life. He becomes James Palmer, a fur trader in one of the little trading posts far up in the American wilderness among the warring tribes. There, he finds himself fighting for his own survival.

Tales is a collection of six short stories by Montana author Dave Lloyd.

Sgt. Print Davis is reluctant to retire his trusted revolver until his MP squad is tasked with participating in the 1911 tests being held by the Army in their quest for a new semi-automatic service pistol. He becomes a convert of the new weapon. Afterward, John Browning, its inventor, gives him the Colt pistol used in the trials. Print carries the gun in combat in Mexico as his regiment chases Pancho Villa, then through World War I and to South America and China.

Lloyd's novel begins in Stoneville, eastern Montana. Young Bill McCarthy and his friend Boots Axelbee, with the other C Bar cowboys, are attacked by Belle Fourche Sheriff O'Hara's posse. In the shoot-out, Bill kills the sheriff and another deputy. The C Bar crew flees the scene and split up. Bill and Boots team up and head west. Action continues as they run into stock thieves after their horses, then end up in lawless Virginia City, seeking their fortune.