Ed Kurtz

Books

Horseblood: Frontier and Weird Western Stories
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 70,980. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Ten stories of America’s tortured frontier past from the acclaimed author of A Wind of Knives and the Boon trilogy. A drifter gives everything he has to love a woman a cruel world won’t let exist. A family battles hunger and grief against the worst possible odds—themselves. Madness and monstrosities descend upon a group of hopeful pilgrims traveling the westward trails.
A Requiem for Boon
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 112,070. Language: English. Published: February 1, 2022 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » USA
The epic saga of Boon Angchuan ends— —but not before she finally finishes her bloody quest. Edward Splettstoesser and Liliana Contreras have been on the trail together for the better part of a decade, searching for their long-lost friend Boon. After so many dusty miles and bitter disappointments, they finally track her down to a Wyoming prison and begin hatching plans to break her out.
Vengeance of Boon
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 82,610. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2021 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Western, Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
It’s been a decade since Boonsri Angchuan and Edward Splettstoesser parted ways in California at the bloody end of her original vengeance trail. Now, she finds herself in the middle of a South American war with a new partner to tell the tale, a young Mexican woman named Lily Contreras with a dark past and more than a little blood on her own hands. And Boon’s vengeance hasn’t been doused yet.
Boon
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 93,650. Language: English. Published: April 7, 2020 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier, Fiction » Western
No man is Boon’s equal, no gun more lethal. Boonsri Angchuan travels the trails, riding from town to town with her one and only friend, a portly Arkansan drunkard named Edward Splettstoesser. She has done nothing else for years, her only goal being revenge upon the one man who should have protected her but instead sold her and her mother into bondage.
Sawbones
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 165,790. Language: English. Published: July 5, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Historical » USA
In 1865, a man calling himself Septimus Whitehall slashed, shot, and burned his way from New York to California in a frenzy of violence. This is his own story, told in his own words. Seven names were on the doctor’s list. Seven men and women scattered all over the United States and its western territories. Seven souls judged guilty by a mysterious man with no past.
Nausea
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 54,090. Language: English. Published: February 11, 2018 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Crime thriller
Since the night he made an ill-advised decision to commit a pair of revenge killings, Nick has made his living as a professional murderer. Early on, he dispensed with guilt or emotion. But after a routine hit gets messy, Nick gets sick and the conscience he thought he’d killed, along with dozens of other marks, comes creeping back into his brain.
Angel of the Abyss
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 69,060. Language: English. Published: November 21, 2017 by Crossroad Press. Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Mystery & detective » Hard-Boiled
When Graham Woodard is hired to restore part of a previously lost silent horror film—Angel of the Abyss—the last thing he expects is the first in a series of murders clearly meant to keep it lost. With one-time friend Jake Maitland in tow, the two must now navigate the treacherous enigma that is the lost film, while piecing together the story of the film’s ill-fated starlet, Grace Baron.