BOOK 2 OF THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

Tom Lacey and Samuel Embers were outlaws who split from the Younger Brothers gang.  Their handles were the Nevada Kid and Smokey.  After the robbery of the Kingston-Downey Express, they took honest jobs while seeking refuge at a prominent cattle ranch.  Nevada had been shot through the left thigh by the pursuing posse and by taking on honest jobs was the only way Smokey could get his pard back on his feet again without getting captured.

 

What they didn't figure into the equation was the rancher's beautiful innocent young niece, Polly, falling in love with the Nevada Kid.  She came from back east to live with her aunt and uncle and to teach at the local schoolhouse.

 

Smokey had a very rough time keeping this beautiful girl from controlling his partner's soul and destiny.  Polly was the one witness to the robbery of the express that knew enough about the two to get them imprisoned, or worse, hanged.

 

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Now Available:      Trails Southwest

                           Parts 1 and 2

This book is the second edition reprint of Books 1 and 2 in the Southwest Trails Series.  It has been made into a novel of  207 pages and is available for $10 at Westwood Book Store, Port St. Lucie, FL 34987 and on Amazon and Barnes & Nobel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank Y'all for your support.  Enjoy travelling by horseback on the trails Southwest with Tom "the Nevada Kid" Lacey and

Samuel "Smokey" Embers.  Here's hoping you have a fantastic trail ride through the old frontier west!

 

                                      Diane M. Cece 

 

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BOOK 1 OF THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

 

 

Tom Lacey lost his family during a raid in the 1870's.  His father died from a gunshot wound through the stomach with a rifle.  His mother and sister were overcome by heat and smoke in their burning farmhouse.  In a matter of minutes, his whole family was taken. Heartbroken and lonely, he blindly went to work burying his family on the hillside behind the farmhouse.  Left alone to fend for himself, he sells his father's farm and becomes a drifter and so called saddle tramp.

 

"Trails Southwest", a western fictional novel tells the story of nineteen-year-old Tom Lacey and all the roadblocks in his way as well as the hardships he suffers to meet his goals.  His desperate pursuit for survival led him to become involved with a bunch of desperados.  He learns a fast draw, gains a reputation and flees with Smokey, a cowboy and drifter he befriends.  Smokey and Tom have a lot of respect for each other, and they become true comrades.  Since riding trail together they've been through many trials and could just about read what the other was thinking by eye contact.  But then again, Tom got tired of running and wanted to leave the gang to move on to other places.

 

After a hot pursuit by law enforcement Tom and Smokey found themselves on the ranch of John O'Conner.  They would use this ranch as a cover from the law and hold honest jobs as cow hands as long as they could.  If they could escape the law entirely, they could get away free.

 

Buck was John O'Connor's ranch foreman and a tough disciplinarian who made the ranch hands toe the line.  He took a dislike to the young new hire he thought was a no account farm boy.  It was his job to straighten out the trouble maker and turn him into a worthy ranch hand.

 

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BOOK 3 OF THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

"The Rodeo Southwest" continues to tell the life of ex-outlaws Tom Lacey "the Nevada Kid" and Samuel "Smokey" Embers after they were both released from prison.

 

After serving five years inside Yuma prison, Smokey was released ahead and Nevada had to stay another two years because of misbehavior inside.  After serving his full sentence, Nevada became free and headed southwest, joining the Broken Arrow Ranch rodeo circuit to make some fast money, hoping to reach the goal he set for himself of buying a cattle ranch.  Just when Nevada is focused to have a new and straight life, he runs into old enemies and a mystery of who is cutting cinch straps to make a planned murder look like a rodeo accident.

 

Intriguing, readers are compelled to read on and find out what will happen to Nevada's quest to better himself and acquire a ranch--a dream that may seem too big for an ex-outlaw to achieve.  A story of reaching for one's dream and of perseverance, "The Rodeo Southwest" is not another rodeo tale but a story of man and his ambition to better himself even after a series of past mistakes and terrible choices.

 

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BOOK 4 OF THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

     The Nevada Kid and his sidekick Smokey Embers decide to go on a hunting trip in the mountains.  The plan was to surprise their good friend Jim Cappieona "Cappie" who lives in a mountain home.  When they reach Cappie's home he is not there.  Their hunting trip turns into a search and rescue mission in the mountains above Yuma, Arizona.  They are confronted by Mexican outlaws, two beautiful senoritas, and a Indian boy named Keytoe who is protecting the sacred ground of the Thunder God for the elders of his tribe.

     What dangers do they encounter near the abandoned gold mines in the mountains and the old mining town of Harshaw?  Pedro, the leader of the Mexican outlaws has no sympathies for any man he captures, especially if that man is messing with his girlfriend Carmelita.  Who is Rosita the cute Mexican girl that bakes delicious hot apple pies?

     After all this adventure do Nevada and Smokey ever get any hunting done on their trip?  When they arrive back at the ranch with two turkeys in tow another twist is thrown at them.  Nevada's attorney, Mr. Parks, has set up a custody battle for guardianship of Nevada's son Thomas Trainor "TJ".  Why is John O'Connor fighting so hard to keep Nevada from securing custody of TJ when it is Nevada's paternal rights?  You must read the story to find out.

 

 

                                              Flying T2 Brand

BOOK 5 OF THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

I'm called the Cimarron Kid.  Don't let that scare you; I picked up the "kid" handle while I was growing up in the Yuma, Arizona, territory.  I'm the second-born son of the notorious outlaw and gunman, the Nevada Kid.  My father ran with the Younger Brothers Gang, but after his seven years in Yuma prison, he got a little smarter and went straight, then got married to my mother, Ricki, a barrel racer.

 

I'm one of five boys raised on a big spread called the Flying T2 Roughstock and Cattle Company.  My half-brother, TJ, is ten years older than me.  TJ went to college back east and became an attorney, and me, well, Pa laughingly considers me to be part of the roughstock on the ranch.  I was born and bred cowboy tough.

 

My gun is a lot faster than TJ's and probably even faster than Pa's ever was, but TJ is no wimp.  He shoots accurately and can handle a gun almost as good as me, but then again, I had more time to practice speed.

 

There is only one difference between me and my four brothers, which is that I'm a chip off the old block and can find myself in more trouble than a woodpecker in a petrified forest.

 

If you want to hear my story, you got to read the book.

 

Sincerely,

Cimarron Lacey

Flying T2 Brand

 

 

BOOK 6 IN THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

Sundell Lacey is framed and facing hanging charges when he is forced to join the Dash Cogburn outlaw gang in order to survive a bad fall off a mountain trail that left him with amnesia.

 

Rosey Denver was witness to the robbery in Brotherhood, CA and was kidnapped by the gang and held hostage.  Even though she was only fifteen, she found herself falling in love with her protector, the young cowboy, Sundell.

 

Westley Payson was the scum of the gang.  He was not happy when Sundell claimed responsibility for Rosey, pretending to have his way with her to keep her safe from the violence of the other gang members.

 

 

BOOK 7 OF THE SOUTHWEST TRAILS SERIES

 

 

It was Tyler Lacey's turn to gather the cattle and the strays in the upper mountain ranges and move them down to the lower meadows before winter set in on the Flying T2 Rough Stock and Cattle Company ranch.  Tyler and his four brothers took turns being the line rider living in the line shack, one month at a time, doing what a cowhand's work required.  The Christmas holiday was fast approaching and Tyler was looking forward to finishing up the job and going back down the mountain to join his brothers and parents for Christmas dinner and the tree decorating at the big house.  While gathering strays on his way down the trail he questioned why an old chuck wagon was coming up the cattle trail trespassing on the T2's upper range. 

 

Calico Gunderson was on the way to her Uncle's Broken Arrow Ranch down near Smithville, Arizona with her brother Corey and her sister Ginger.  She somehow made two wrong turns with her wagon and found herself lost and heading west up a mountain trail that was getting narrower as she climbed higher.  Calico was trying to figure out how she could get the wagon and mule team turned around and going south, when a sudden and freak snow storm hit the mountain area stranding her and the children in the wilderness.

 

 

     Diane M Cece was born and raised in a small New Jersey town and is descended from a large Italian family that originated in San Potito Ultra, Avellino, Italy.

     After retiring from twenty-five years of federal service, working for supervisory military personnel, her interests turned to her love for history and writing.  She started a second career at small Waterloo Village in Northwestern New Jersey and became a historical interpreter and continued on as a eighteenth century seamstress designing and manufacturing custom period clothing.  Joining a Civil War Living History and Reenactment Group, the 27th Regiment of New Jersey Volunteer Infantry nicknamed "Bailey's Boys" she moved on to living history interpretation. Her love for the old west continued on throughout her life loving the energy created by the First Frontier Rodeo circuit, the local rodeo's and western movies,  thus living her own life around the Code of the West.   She has been a fan of Country Music her whole life and was a unpublished songwriter and member of the Nashville Songwriters Association International.  She also does Texas round dancing  and for a short time taught the two-step, line, and couple dances in her home state.  She is a member of the National Rifle Association and two gun clubs in New Jersey, which satisfies her strong feelings for patriotism and American conservative values. Besides dancing and country music, her other interests include archery, shooting sports, and game fishing for northern pike. 

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