San Antonio College Library

Two novels by masterful storyteller Lauran Paine. In Odd Partnership, gunfighter Lewis Morgan, sheltering from a snowstorm, overhears two assassins plotting to shoot a U.S. Marshall. The Marshall's reaction to this news presents a mystery, since he doesn't react with any alarm. Gunman's Moon opens with gunman Ralph Bolley being killed by a shotgun blast at the Rocking W Ranch. The arrest of the widowed owner of the ranch, and the trial that follows,...

In alternating chapters from past to present, Chance Carter, former general manager of a TV station in Florida, learns about his grandmother Rista, his family's ranch in Texas, and the mysteries and secrets of his family and of their impact on him.