It should be a simple job. All Raleigh Colter and his partner, Jeff Crutchfield, have to do is guide photographer Gwen McCarthy and her father to the Guadalupe Mountains. But Colter is experienced enough to know that nothing comes easy in West Texas. The rugged country is far from hospitable, often teeming with thieves, killers, and renegade Apaches. Plus Gwen wants to photograph a mountain lion in the wild - which has never been done - and her father is a drunk. Pitted against Mother Nature and murderous outlaws, Colter and Gwen are soon forced to rely on their skills - and each other - just to survive. If they fail, some other photographer might wind up taking a picture of their bleached bones in the high desert.

While researching This Man Colter, Johnny D. Boggs spent time hiking around West Texas - camping at Guadalupe Mountains National Park one spring night that turned so cold his toothpaste was frozen the next morning. Boggs' first novel, Hannah and the Horseman, is also published by Avalon. He lives in Dallas with his wife, Lisa Smith, and works in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Sports Department when not writing about the American frontier.

Available from Avalon:

Hannah and the Horseman Western Series
Book 1 - HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN
Book 2 - THE COURTSHIP OF HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN
Book 3 - RIDING WITH HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN
Book 4 - HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN AT THE GALLOWS TREE
Book 5 - HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN ON THE WESTERN TRAIL
Book 6 - THE ODYSSEY OF HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN
Book 7 - A JOB FOR HANNAH AND THE HORSEMAN

Avalon Westerns by Johnny D. Boggs:
FOUNDATION OF THE LAW
THIS MAN COLTER
THE CURSE OF DUNBAR'S GOLD
TEN AND ME