C.J. Petit

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  • Bibliography:
    83 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2017
  • Latest Book:
    February 2023
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Full Series List in Order

The Evans Family Saga

1 - Dylan's Journey (Oct-2019)
2 - Bryn's War (Nov-2019)
3 - Huw's Legacy (Dec-2019)
4 - Lynn's Search (Dec-2019)
5 - Bethan's Choice (Feb-2020)
6 - Alwen's Dream (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 83 titles

  • Fort Selden

    After twenty years of fighting; first the rebels and then the Apaches, Jonas was tired of it all and decided to return to his unfinished cabin to find the solace and peace that he craved. Yet once he'd returned the place to a livable condition, he re...

  • Rock Creek

    As Carl sat astride his roan gelding and stared at Pine Bluffs, he knew that his days of punching cattle were over. The long drives across the West were dying now that the railroads had crisscrossed the Plains. Ironically, his last formal education h...

  • North of Denton

    Matt finally had what he wanted; a ranch to raise his Morgans. Now he was ready to take the next step; the reason for building the ranch in the first place. He would finally begin his search for the right woman to help him start a family of his own. ...

  • Scotts Bluff

    Aaron hadn't been caught by surprise by the early arrival of the Nebraska blizzard in November, so after hunkering down for the night to wait out the snow and gale-like winds, he set out in the predawn to resume his trek across the plains to get to h...

  • South Of Denver

    After leaving his job as sheriff of Boulder, Sam Brown decided to visit his sister and her family on their ranch south of Denver but discovers the ranch empty. He searches to find them, and what he discovers becomes his mission that would change his ...

  • Hopewell

    U.S Deputy Marshal Earl Crawford had just entered the office after returning from a typically Texan assignment where bullets flew like dirt in a twister. He hadn't even hung his hat when the boss approached him about an even more dangerous mission, b...

  • Nueva Luz

    Lee Ryan knew horses. He had his herd and his ranch. He even had his eye on a redheaded lass that would make everything perfect. The only thing that stood in the way of having everything he ever wanted was, of all things, hay. He didn't need it, but ...

  • Miles City

  • The Witch of Dakota

    The Witch's medicine was bad. She must be killed. But she ran before they could act. She ran across the Dakota prairie until she could run no more. She turned and faced the oncoming warriors. She had no hope, yet she would defy them until the end. Th...



  • The Gun Smith

    Mack Smith had left his shop in Pueblo and was just an hour or so from reaching his brother’s ranch for his annual visit when he felt the bullet slam into his head, and when his eyes finally opened, he found himself flat on his back on the bottom o...

  • Baker City

    No one had seen the innocuous rock on the long climb to the pass on the Oregon Trail, and when the last covered wagon in the long line rolled onto the lump of granite, it shouldn’t have made much of a difference, but it caused almost instant traged...

  • Nora

    Jake Fletcher thought he'd been blessed among all men when he stood at the aisle across from his bride. How such an ordinary man like himself had won her heart still astounded him. It wasn't until a month later that he understood what had attracted h...

  • Wilmore

  • Bessie

    Ed's life changed that first day of September when that deadly twister had roared across his Texas ranch and destroyed his house. But what was much worse was that it had ripped his Bessie and their boys from him and destroyed much more than the woode...

  • Hunting Pearl

    Will noticed that the numbers didn't add up when he was eleven but didn't discover the truth of that mathematical problem until he was seventeen. For most of his young life, Will had known Pearl as his older sister, but only after the man who had act...

  • Max

  • Finding Bucky

  • Zack

  • The Debt



  • The Last Four

  • Mister Thor

    TJ knew the coal was there. A large deposit. But he had seen something else that intrigued him about the area south of Gillette in Wyoming Territory. He would only find it after he had bought the huge tract from the railroad. And he found much more. ...

  • Cole

  • The Wake of the Bertrand

    Kyle MacKenzie left Fort Omaha to head to do some scouting at Fort Sully in the Dakota Territory at the request of their new commander.He'd been riding west for a few hours with his packhorse in tow, he noticed a set of wagon tracks heading northwest...

  • The Eclipse

  • Luke

  • A.J. Smith

    AJ Smith had finally achieved his Big Dream. He had his ranch, a good-sized herd, and a healthy bank account. He thought he had finally added the last, most important part of the dream when Hannah Jacobsen, recent widow and mother of two, moved in wi...

  • Gus

    When aging cowboy Gus Matthews gets fired from Rocking-C ranch for laying out the mean-spirited, know-nothing foreman, he heads north for Oklahoma, where he finds work with the Aronsons, an elderly couple whose ranch has seen better days. What should...

  • The Scalawags

    Union Army sergeant Sam Walker returns home to Iowa after leaving a prisoner of war camp, only to discover that his sweetheart has married his brother. He heads down to Mulberry, Texas, to keep a promise to his fallen Union army brother-in-arms, Joe ...

  • The Stampede

    Jed Morgan, his brother, sister and parents were enjoying a family picnic in their pastures under the oak tree a few hundred yards from their ranch house. The large herd was grazing peacefully out of sight and Jed had his eyes on his mother's apple p...



  • The Second Star: A Christmas Western

    Mark Jordan was in no hurry to finish the long ride across Texas to reach his first assignment in Dallas. He was ashamed of himself for not standing up to his father and choosing his own career. but now he was an ordained minister and wished somethin...

  • Slow John

    After five long years in the army, First Lieutenant John Flynn was finally being mustered out and would soon be going home to the family he hadn't even heard from since he enlisted. But when he rode to the family home, he made two shocking discoverie...

  • Tate

  • Virgil's Herd

    Virgil Scott and his best friend Roy Sheffield left their horse ranch and were making one of their routine runs to Denver to deliver thirty-two horses. But the short trail drive proved to be anything but routine when late that first night, they were ...

  • Alex Paine

    Henry St. Martin walked into the hacienda to talk to his father. Everything seemed wrong. Where was his mother?Three hours later, sixteen-year-old Henry was ejected from the enormous St. Martin ranch and told never to return, or he would be shot on s...

  • Marsh's Valley

    Rachel looked down at her husband's dead body, the long knife protruding from his gut. She knew she'd be hanged or shot if she stayed in Missoula, so she'd have to run. But where could she go? The only place that came to mind was the hidden valley no...

  • Ben Gray

    Pinkerton Agent Ben Gray was being sent to Denver for another all-to-common request for confirmation of marital infidelity. He didn't mind because he'd be able to go and visit his brother, who unknown to him, had just found a rich deposit of gold in ...

  • War Adams

    United States Marshal War Adams stared at the telegram in disbelief. His father had been murdered? As difficult as it was to come to grips with the news, it would become more disturbing when he discovered that the person arrested for the crime was th...

  • Sheriff Joe

    Sheriff Joe Brooks was talking to a young prisoner who gave him some incredibly bad news. Three notorious gangs of outlaws had merged into one large band big enough to take over entire towns in his sparsely populated county. It was when they began to...

  • Will Scott

    Will thought the job to Robinson, New Mexico was going to be a simple determination of whether it was worthwhile for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to build a spur to the town. They claimed to have a huge coal deposit, and Will would just...



  • Chance

  • Doc Holt

  • Haven

  • Sam's County

  • Matt Dunne

    They came out of the sun and through the dust cloud created by the herd, firing their Winchesters and killing the men who were moving the cattle to Abilene. Each man fell just minutes after the attack began and the stampeding cattle finished the job ...

  • Conn Jackson

  • Abandoned

  • Gabe Owens

    Gabe had been assigned to investigate a case of timber poaching near Missoula in Montana Territory that could have been handled by a less experienced agent of the railroad, but the case had changed dramatically after the apparent murder of the statio...

  • Retribution

    Joey couldn't imagine a better thirteenth birthday. He'd been given his first pistol and now was going to join his six older brothers on tomorrow's job. They were going to trust him with covering their escape after robbing the bank and he was determi...

  • Inevitable

    Lin Chase was aptly named as he'd chosen the profession of bounty hunter. This chase was to apprehend or kill the notorious Whitacre brothers and he was getting close. They were just a few hours ahead of him now after more than a week and a half of t...



  • Scandal in Topeka

    Harry Glenn was asked to investigate the open and shut case of the murder of a prominent judge in Topeka, but quickly realized that the crime was far from simple and wouldn't be that simple to close, either. In just days, the circumstances of the kil...

  • Return to Hardeman County

    Sergeant Ellis White had the Yankee colonel in the crosshairs of the Amadon telescopic sight on the J.F. Brown sniper rifle and knew his index finger just had to squeeze the trigger, but he paused. He hadn't wanted to be the regimental sniper in the ...

  • Mac's Cabin

    Mac Jones had been searching for a refuge for seven years and had finally found it in the mountains of Colorado. Then, as soon as his cabin was built, he was presented with two fellow refugees that would turn his peaceful sanctuary into a killing gro...

  • Ted Shepard: Return to Wilmore

    Ted Shepard had seen many deaths over his ten years as a bounty hunter and then as a United States Deputy Marshal, but none had come close to affecting him as much as this one. He didn’t know if he could go on any longer, but it would take a visit ...

  • Deception

  • The Silver Widows

  • Hitch

  • Dylan's Journey

    The Evans Family Saga - 1

    Dylan knew that the boiler was about to blow apart and that if he didn't act fast, he and the others in the pump room at the #3 mine would all die. The engine operator was panicking but had fallen in his haste to escape a scalding death, so Dylan lif...

  • Bryn's War

    The Evans Family Saga - 2

    Bryn felt sickened as he felt the ground shake, knowing that one of the two shafts had collapsed. Now, he stood in the pump room and watched the two thrumming pumps as they pulled water out of the deep mines. He knew that one of them would strain whe...

  • Huw's Legacy

    The Evans Family Saga - 3

    Kyle felt guilty for playing a game as his mother suffered back at their small excuse for a house, but she had insisted and knew that it was important to her that he spend time outside of the mechanized hell where he spent sixty hours a week earning ...

  • Lynn's Search

    The Evans Family Saga - 4

  • Bethan's Choice

    The Evans Family Saga - 5

    Bethan listened as her father explained to her mother the mission that he was giving to her brother, Lynn, and her Uncle Bryn. After she's heard all of the details, she left the big house and returned to her small house where she began to pack. She w...

  • Rhody Jones

    The first mate of the schooner, Vivienne, walked from the docks into the streets of New Orleans. He'd been dismissed by the captain after the ship had barely survived the incredible battering from a powerful hurricane.He could have signed on to anoth...

  • Alwen's Dream

    The Evans Family Saga - 6

    After he and Garth had built the A-G Connected, Al thought that he'd fulfilled his dream by owning a horse ranch. But when Garth announced that he was going to get married, Al knew that he would only be in the way, so he decided to find his own place...

  • Cy Page: Western Union Man

    After clearing up an almost comedic issue in Dodge City, Cy received an assignment to go to the town of Granite in New Mexico Territory to investigate a claim of massive overcharging by the telegraphers. It wasn't a particularly challenging issue, bu...

  • The Nothing Man

  • Tabby Hayes

    Tabby rode out of the Slant 6 after having spent more than four years working on the big spread. He wasn't mad or even disappointed. It was just the way of life for a cowhand. The last three years of low prices for cattle had finally forced the boss ...

  • Letter for Gene

    The war was ending for Captain Eugene Stewart. He and the rest of the 85th Illinois would soon be mustered out and he'd return home to Peoria. After he entered his tent, he found a thick envelope from his mother sitting on his cot. When he unfolded t...

  • Grip Taylor

    Grip was buried in one of his textbooks when his roommate entered and told him that the dean of students needed to speak to him.As he strode across the University of Michigan's campus, he couldn't recall any recent infractions that might have trigger...

  • Garrett's Duty

    Eighteen-year-old Garrett Shaw and his father spotted the rustlers and pulled their Winchesters. They kept their muzzles pointed away from the three men who were stealing eight steers from their small ranch to give them a chance to leave peaceably. W...

  • East of the Cascades

    Keith watched his young cousin ride away and shook his head. He would be leading a party into the wilderness which was what they both did for a living. But Angus wasn't escorting a typical hunting party. He was taking a newlywed couple into the deep ...

  • Wade Rivers

    Wade stood in the dark street and watched his home being eaten by the raging flames. It was as if it was a horrible nightmare because it couldn't really be happening. He knew his parents had been trapped in their room where the fire had started, but ...

  • Cap Tyler

    When the Northern Pacific had ceased operations at the start of the Panic of 73, Cap had been stranded with his survey crew in the middle of Montana Territory. Since then, he'd lived a hard, solitary life. Recently he's spent a few months as a gamble...

  • The Saloon Lawyer

    Morgan was meeting with an important client in his well-appointed law office in San Antonio when his clerk tapped on the door and entered without waiting for a reply.Morgan didn't mind as he expected Jim Cooper had a good reason for the interruption....

  • The Divide

    After finally crossing the South Platte River, the wagon train headed north toward Lodge Pole Cree where they expected to find another set of ruts leading west to Oregon.As he and Faith led their tent-cart away from Julesburg, Joe wondered if he wasn...

  • Rusty & Bug

    Clay County Sheriff Rusty Price had been following the two killers since they galloped out of his town but kept out of sight until the sun set. In the low light, he closed the gap and planned to wait until they crawled into their bedrolls to take the...

  • Idaho City

    Before the wagons left the Laramie Plains, a quiet epidemic began infecting some of the settlers. It was a disease without a cure and threatened to create havoc among the families.It started as just a passing remark, but soon word of a recent discove...

  • Poole's Gold

    When the postal inspector in Carson City discovered a counterfeit one-dollar bill, he notified the Secret Service. That was why they'd been created just a decade earlier.Secret Service Agent Sean Brady was assigned to the case and prepared to make th...

  • Spring Surprises

    It hadn't been a bad winter, but the townsfolk of Idaho City were anxious for spring to arrive. Like everyone else, Joe would appreciate the warmer weather and longer days. But he and Sheriff Fulmer both dreaded the influx of gold hunters and the tro...

  • Clara's Crusade

    Clara was angrier than she'd ever been before. But even her fury took second place to her deep frustration.They'd murdered her first husband as a warning to the others. Then six months later, after she'd convinced her second husband to join her crusa...

  • Friends Lost and Found

    As the temperatures rose, so did the surge of fortune hunters. They also brought more trouble to Boise County and Idaho City, so Sheriff Fulmer added more deputies to keep the peace. But before the year ended, the sheriff's office would need to hire ...

  • Passing Years

    Despite the large number of saloons and ever-changing population, Joe and Faith were comfortable living in Idaho City. They had a nice home and hoped to raise Sam and Katie in the town even after the gold was gone. But those expectations were dashed ...

  • The Brakeman

    When Drew Campbell turned sixteen and had to leave St. Thomas Home for Boys, he knew he wasn't fully prepared to face the world on his own. But he thought his years as a blacksmith's apprentice would give him a start.But after failing to find work at...

  • The Laramie Plains

    • / Historical
    • Buy Buy

    Joe and Faith were miles ahead of the long line of wagons as they ascended Cheyenne Pass. They knew that when they passed over the summit, the Laramie Plains would spread out before them.But just before they reached the top of the pass, Joe pulled up...

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C.J. Petit has published 83 books.

C.J. Petit does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Brakeman, was published in February 2023.

The first book by C.J. Petit, South Of Denver, was published in January 2017.

Yes. C.J. Petit has 1 series.
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