The Divided Prey

by Troy D. Smith

A WESTERN TRAIL BLAZER DIME NOVEL (SHORT STORY): Texas Ranger Jake Blackwell accompanies a posse that has captured the notorious outlaw Vin Arthur… but that was the easy part. Now they have to transport him through the Apache Mountains –and an invisible enemy is determined to pick them off, one by one…Read the whole Blackwell series! "Blackwell's Run" was nominated for the 2011 Peacemaker Award for best western short story!• The Blackwell Claim• Blackwell the Highwayman• Blackwell Unchained• Blackwell's Star• Blackwell's Stand• The Divided Prey• Blackwell's Run• The Windigo• The Blackwell Raid

24 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 11, 2011

About the author

Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He is currently teaching American history at Tennessee Tech, and serving as president of Western Fictioneers -the first national writing organization devoted exclusively to fiction about the Old West.