Lone Runner: A Novel of the Old West

by Ardath Mayhar

When Katharine's father dies in 1864, leaving her destitute, her cousin "sells" her to the beastly One-Eye Murray. She then flees west into the wilderness, but One-Eye hires Sun-Shot O'Neill to track the girl across the wasteland to "save" his investment. "A classic tale of survival against all odds, Lone Runner is a superb cat-and-mouse western suspense tale filled with tension, poignancy, and gritty realism"--Robert Reginald.

188 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2009

About the author

Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar was an American writer and poet. She began writing science fiction in 1979 after returning with her family to Texas from Oregon. She was nominated for the Mark Twain Award, and won the Balrog Award for a horror narrative poem in Masques I.

She had numerous other nominations for awards in almost every fiction genre, and won many awards for poetry. In 2008 she was honored by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as an Author Emeritus.

Mayhar wrote over 60 books ranging from science fiction to horror to young adult to historical to westerns; with some work under the pseudonyms Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, John Killdeer, Ardath P. Mayhar. Joe R. Lansdale wrote simply: "Ardath Mayhar writes damn fine books!"