After saving former Confederate officer Ben Winthrop from a lynch mob, black mountain man, Caleb Johnson is talked into guiding him from Colorado to Oregon. He then lets himself be talked into spending two years there helping Ben get his ranch started. But he wants to get back to his little cabin near Bear Creek, Colorado, even though he’ll miss Ben’s wife, Wenona, the Shoshone princess, and her two sons. Finally, though, Caleb puts his foot down. He saddles his horse, named Horse, and calls his dog, named Dog, and sets off for home, a journey that is anything but routine—or peaceful. It’s just normal chaos, though, until he gets to Wenona’s tribal village in Utah, and finds his Shoshone friend being threatened by a greedy rancher and land poacher who is moving to take over their traditional hunting ground. Now, Caleb’s a peace-loving man, but you just don’t threaten his friends. He’d planned to spend the winter with the Shoshone, and get rested up to resume his journey after the spring thaw.

Caleb’s new wife, Spring Flower, who now calls herself Flora in order to fit into Bear Creek society, finds a bear cub whose mother’s been killed by wolves. She takes it home and nurses it back to health, something that Caleb, uneasy about at first, comes to accept. They even give the cub the name Snuffy, and delight in how it becomes close with Dog. Later, while shopping in Bear Creek, Flora is accosted by three ruffians, and Caleb gives them a drubbing. The incident is forgotten for months until one day, as the spring mist is enshrouding their peaceful mountain home, the past comes calling. Events combine in a bloody confrontation that will leave you breathless.

In late November, Caleb goes off alone into the mountains to hunt meat for the winter, leaving Flora alone at their cabin with just Dog for company. While hunting mule deer in a box canyon, Caleb is caught in a freakish blizzard that dumps mounds of snow over the trail. As he makes his way out, fighting Mother Nature’s whimsy, he also has to deal with her hungry creatures who see him as a tasty winter meal. Meanwhile, back in Bear Creek, when the snow starts to fall, Flora starts to worry about Caleb, and, after a few days of fretting decides to go find him, getting caught up in her own dangerous adventure. A story of two people who are willing to sacrifice all for the other, the action is non-stop.

Flora, Caleb’s Shoshone wife, is pining for her village, and Caleb is at a loss as to what to do about it. But whenever one door closes another opens. The guide for a wagon train passing through Bear Creek falls of his horse and breaks his neck, leaving the settlers without someone to guide them to their new homes. Caleb is not just the best guide in the area, he’s the only guide, and Bear Creek’s sheriff convinces the wagon master to hire him. Since the wagon train is headed for Wyoming, not far from Flora’s village in Utah, Caleb sees a way to cheer her up and make some money at the same time. Unfortunately, when a door opens, trouble often enters, and Caleb finds his hands full scouting a trail for the cumbersome wagons while, at the same time, trying to figure out what the secretive wagon master is up to. Things come to a head in a deadly way when they near their destination, and it will take all Caleb’s skills to get out of it alive.

The fifth book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray! After his family was killed by slave catchers in the settlement of New Canaan, Nebraska, Caleb escaped and lived among the Winnebago tribe until he came of age. He then moved south, settling near Bear Creek, Colorado, where he engages in hunting and trapping, working with the general store owner in the town. One day, a ghost from his past comes to Bear Creek. Four of the men involved in his parents’ deaths, show up. When they beat and rob Caleb’s friend, he swears that he will finally get the vengeance that is long overdue. The trail leads from Colorado to the Dakotas where there is a final reckoning that changes Caleb’s life forever.

The sixth book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray! A troop of cavalry soldiers arrive in Bear Creek, on the trail of a band of deserters. They hire Caleb to guide them into the mountains northwest of the town, an area with they are unfamiliar. Flora, Caleb’s wife, is uneasy about him taking the job, but Caleb’s sense of adventure compels him. After a fiery confrontation, though, he realizes that he’s not as young as he once was, and has to rethink what he will do with his life. Grab your copy today!

The seventh book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray! Carlotta Thompkins and her 7-foot-tall bodyguard, Mary Poindexter, arrive in Bear Creek. Thompkins is looking for her runaway fiancé, and passes the time playing cards with the locals, and winning. While she’s a novelty and great entertainment for most, young ruffian Hadley Cooper can ‘t take losing to a woman. When he kidnaps Carlotta in a misguided effort to recover his poker losings, Caleb, a man who can’t abide lawless behavior, decides to come to the rescue.

The eighth book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray! It seemed like an easy job. All Caleb had to do was guide a tenderfoot to the mountains and look out for him while he explored and drew his pretty pictures. It seemed such an easy job that Caleb even decides to take his wife Flora along. Little did he know that young Frederic Remington was a magnet for trouble, some of it deadly. Danger lurks around every turn in the trail, leaving Caleb wondering if he’ll be able to get his charge back to Bear Creek alive. Grab your copy today!

The ninth book in the Mountain Life Western Adventure series from Charles Ray! Caleb and Flora head to the mountains, he to scout out new hunting grounds and her in search of the rare ginseng root. Snuffy, the bear they raised from an orphaned cub, and Dog accompany them. When this intrepid quartet rescues a young man and woman from an attacking mountain lion, Caleb and Flora find themselves enmeshed in a generational family feud that threatens their very lives. Grab your copy today!