Sam Balinger was raised on a Texas cattle ranch, but his love of ‘mechanical things’ drove him to work in a gun shop that specialized in fabricating small gun parts. After moving on, he worked as a railroad detective and amassed a small fortune from collecting bounties on the outlaws he brought to justice. Falling in love with a friend from high school, the couple trained for eight months in a Texas applied science college. Returning to Dallas, the Duo bought a metal machine shop, and converted it to a brass cartridge fabrication plant and an ammo loading center. There is plenty of gunfights, jungle warfare, romance, and American ingenuity. The message is “friends can become lovers and build a future.”

I'm the President of the Demented Sons MC. I don't have time in my life for a woman. And I don't want one. It's taking everything I have to run my chapter, and raise a teenager alone.Except sometimes life nails you like a freight train.Nothing prepared me for her. A ghost from the past, she barreled in wanting something from me I wasn't willing to give.Trying to keep my club safe and my daughter from going off the rails, had me wound tight. Haunted by icy blue eyes, curves to die for, and a sexy smile, I caved?Now I'm caught in a web that's destined to get me killed.

This book extends the cowboy era from the late 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century. After a profitable but dangerous time as a railroad marshal, Sam returns to his hometown and marries his old high school classmate and friend—and proves that friends can be lovers. Working together, they bought a five man shop and built it up to a factory with 150 mixed men and women workers. They started building brass cartridges, designed a loading press, started making loaded ammo, and joined the revolution in handguns—the semi-automatic pistol.

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