Timberline

by Matthew P. Mayo

A ROAMER WESTERN A high-country train trek turns into a blizzard-bound trainwreck-from-hell for Roamer as a gang of gunmen run roughshod on the rails. They blow the safe, abscond with a mysterious young woman, and torch the train, leaving passengers to burn in the midst of a blizzard. 

Trailing death in its wake, the gang heads to the high country with Roamer dogging them on foot, the only man bold enough to track them--until he's joined by his cantankerous old mentor, tough-as-nails mountain man Maple Jack. 

The men converge on the gang in the mountain valley ghost town of Sapphire City, and drive them beyond . . . deep into the maw of a fresh and vicious blizzard that unleashes its merciless might. 

With righteous rage and hard justice their only allies, Roamer and Maple Jack prepare for a final showdown at . . . Timberline.
 
 

Genres: Westerns, Fiction

199 pages, Hardcover

Published May 16, 2018

About the author

Matthew P. Mayo is the award-winning author of thirty-plus books and dozens more short stories. His novel, Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival, won the prestigious Western Heritage Wrangler Award for Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, as well as the Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile Fiction by the Western Writers of America, the Peacemaker Award for Best YA Novel by Western Fictioneers, and the Willa Literary Award for Best Historical Fiction by Women Writing the West. His novel, Tucker’s Reckoning, won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel, and his short stories have been Spur Award and Peacemaker Award finalists.

He has been an on-screen expert for a popular TV series about lost treasure in the American West, and is an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.

Matthew and his wife, photographer and videographer Jennifer Smith-Mayo, along with their indefatigable pup, Miss Tess, run Gritty Press (www.GrittyPress.com) and live in the deepest, forested wildlands of Maine. When they’re not battling belligerent bigfoots and foiling the filching ways of hordes of gray squirrels, they rove the byways of North America in search of hot coffee, tasty whiskey, and high adventure. Be sure to rummage at Matthew’s website (www.MatthewMayo.com) for updates about spurious projects, outrageous outings, and a few surprises, too….

Reviews

[Jason McMyler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a fun time reading Timberline (which by the way is defined in the book). Mayo does a good job of pushing the plot forward and setting the scene; with great descriptions of nature and outdoors.This is the second book of Matthew Mayo I've read and his Westerns novels are good reads. His writing style is not too hokey and enough outdoor survivalist action makes him someone I'd continue reading.

[Douglas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not my typical read, my two year old daughter grabbed it off the shelf while I was looking for something else and said, “Daddy wants this one.” It was fast paced and enjoyable. I might pick up another

[Stephen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Found it in the library, wanted to read a Western. I want to hear the authentic language of the old West. This wasn't authentic for me: Pretty Polly, Maple Jack? C'mon.

[Barbie Adamson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Started so strong.... Dwindled pretty quick