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BORN TO LEAD debuts May 30, 2026

Some men coach games. Steve Arnold transformed lives.

He wasn’t supposed to succeed in Warren, Ohio. Steve was raised in a single-parent home, lived on the wrong side of the tracks, and his complexion was darker than most in his chosen profession. But he was always watching, constantly learning, and eagerly...

A CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE

In the Old West, sometimes blood is the only thing that can set some men free.

In 1880, the booming trail town of Del Norte, Colorado, sits at the crossroads of destiny—where the snowcapped San Juan Mountains cast long shadows over arid desert, rolling plains, and the well-worn paths of the Santa Fe and Taos Trails. It...

Vengeance is a bloodthirsty motivator

CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE

The frontier town of Saguache, Colorado, stands where the vast San Luis Valley meets the shadows of the San Juan Mountains. It is a hard land that breeds hard people, and where vengeance rides again.
Shortly after leading a ragtag posse to capture the notorious Latron Gang and recover...

A CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE

Ride hard. Trust wisely. Fear nothing.

In the dead of night, an explosion rips through the quiet town of Saguache, Colorado.
The Kid Ladrón Gang has struck.
With dynamite and ruthless precision, Raul “Kid Ladrón” Fernandez and his band of hardened mountain thieves blow open the Saguache Bank vault and vanish into the...

A CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE
Wilderness redemption and grizzly conflict
Intervention saves James “Spud” Thompson, a longtime cardsharp, from certain death at the gaming tables of the Last Stop Saloon. A guardian angel leads him to the door of The Phoenix Inn and Restaurant in Saguache, Colorado. Thompson has been scheming, cheating, and conning his...

Fantasy and the Wild West collide in Mountain Magic, a heartwarming tale perfect for the holiday season.
Long before he volunteers to help friends Walter Hamilton and Gus McIntyre transport gold from a hidden location in the San Juan Mountains, Buford Wineguard is an angry and defiant teen who uses his size and strength to bully anyone who...

A Classic Western Adventure

Much is at stake in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado as Gus McIntyre and his friends provide protection for a fortune in gold, belonging to friends Jessie and Walter Hamilton Jr.
Before the gold can be moved, McIntyre, 18, attracts the attention of a young Caputa female, a white woman who has spent most of her life...

A CLASSIC WESTERN ADVENTURE
Revolt looms in Colonial America
James and Rhona McIntyre have done all they can to make a new life in the shadow of the Allegheny Mountains, but life is anything but easy in the American Colonies of the 1770s.
James rescues and opens his home to a battered Mohawk woman and her son. Tormented, the woman runs off, chasing...

A Classic Western Adventure
Fortune, freedom, and fate collide in the Colorado mountains.
Author Gerald L. Guy returns with the fifth gripping installment in The McIntyre Adventure series, where danger, deception, and destiny are risked in the untamed frontier.
Gus McIntyre, Kate Sanders, and Corncob Carter set their sights on a new beginning, but...

A Classic Western Adventure
Two generations of McIntyre men and women build a legacy in another gripping chapter of the award-winning McIntyre Adventure Series by Author Gerald L. Guy.
DENER OR BUST — As the Sanders women, Gus McIntyre, Junior Hamilton, and Corncob Carter journey toward Denver to start a new life, trouble follows close behind....

AN EPIC WESTERN ADVENTURE CONTINUES.

2019, Laramie Award nominee
A journey home reveals the courage of the past—and the challenges of the present.

After months in an Apache village, Gus McIntyre and his friends, Kate and Lizzy Sanders, begin a perilous trek to the Circle H Ranch. Battling spring storms, Gus shares the extraordinary tale of his...

When a dying stranger slips a mysterious map into the hands of young Gus McIntyre, it sets he and his friends on an incredible journey to find the hidden wealth of Mexican Emperor Ferdinand Maximilian. Government agents and ruthless vigilantes from the Ku Klux Klan want the gold, too. When his life and the lives of those he cares most for are...

WESTERN ADVENTURE BEGINS.
Young Gus McIntyre’s life changes forever when outlaws murder his father during their journey to the goldfields of the Dakota Territory in 1876. Stranded in the lawless Black Hills with nothing but a slingshot and his wits, Gus’s fierce determination and courage are put to the ultimate test.
Rescued by Texas cowboys...

On his twenty-fifth birthday, Georgian Matthew Brownlee is informed by his adoptive mother that he had been misled about the sudden death of his biological parents. They were murdered on Halloween 1981. After being informed of a massive inheritance, Matt requests and is granted his discharge from the U.S. Army and heads to Ohio with sister Betsy...

In the early morning hours, a gunshot echoes across the quiet community of Valdosta, Georgia.
A professor, known for his extensive studies of the Okefenokee Swamp, is gunned down in the lighted vestibule of his home.
Students and citizens fear a murderer is walking among them. Windows are slammed shut and deadbolts secure doors in thousands of...

Matt and Betsy Brownlee are back in a suspenseful mystery that will keep you turning pages frantically.
When a slugging softball star is wrongly arrested for the murder of a Kinkaid High School coed, Matt and Betsy rally to his defense. They discover a cop with a vendetta is behind the senseless arrest of James Cavalcante and hire a crafty lawyer...

Oho history comes alive with this new series by Author Gerald L. Guy

Following the Revolutionary War, Americans finally are free to explore new lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. Most of the original thirteen colonies are overcrowded and independence ignites a flame of adventure throughout the newly-formed nation.
Young Billy Cain is...

Ohio history comes alive with this new series by Gerald L. Guy

Young Billy Cain is eager to do the right thing at all times. Sometimes good deeds backfire, though. When Billy rescues a trapper from a winter freeze, Jeremiah Peppers promptly steals his boss’ prized thoroughbred, Blackjack. The horse thief easily is captured and justice hangs on...

In the Ohio Country of 1802, a man’s word is an irrevocable promise. Returning a favor, paying a debt, or fulfilling a pledge is as vital as life itself.
Clayton Maxwell will do anything to recover his prized thoroughbred, Blackjack, stolen twice from under his nose. He calls on Abraham Sanders, the famed “Maumee Mauler,” to join Billy Cain and...

Ohio history and adventure collide in Book #4 of Gerald L. Guy’s Ohio Frontier Adventure series, “Raising Cain.”
Abraham Sanders thought he had shed the horrors that haunted him for years after the death of his best friend at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Nichan and her Ottawa family helped him heal in the wilds of the Northwest Territory. He...