In the small town of St. Lukas, Dr. June Holiday, also known as 'Doc Holiday' to the locals, is the only doctor for miles around. While the local populace is grateful for her services, they know next to nothing about her. The only thing they know about her is that the attractive doctor appeared out of nowhere three years ago and started her practice. St Lukas is a quiet town, miles away from the nearest city. Nothing ever happens here, which is exactly the way the doctor likes it. But when a local fisherman drags a body out of a river, Doc Holiday senses that it is the beginning of something ominous. Something that has to do with her dark past ...

Acclaim for Doc Holliday "Splendid . . . not only the most readable yet definitive study of Holliday yet published, it is one of the best biographies of nineteenth-century Western 'good-bad men' to appear in the last twenty years. It was so vivid and gripping that I read it twice." --Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and author of The New Encyclopedia of the American West "The history of the American West is full of figures who have lived on as romanticized legends. They deserve serious study simply because they have continued to grip the public imagination. Such was Doc Holliday, and Gary Roberts has produced a model for looking at both the life and the legend of these frontier immortals." --Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull "Doc Holliday emerges from the shadows for the first time in this important work of Western biography. Gary L. Roberts has put flesh and soul to the man who has long been one of the most mysterious figures of frontier history. This is both an important work and a wonderful read." --Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend "Gary Roberts is one of a foremost class of writers who has created a real literature and authentic history of the so-called Western. His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Corral and into the glare of history." --Jack Burrows, author of John Ringo: The Gunfighter Who Never Was "Gary L. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. Family members knew him as John. Somewhere in between the two lies the real John Henry Holliday. Roberts reflects this concept in his writing. This book should be of interest to Holliday devotees as well as newly found readers." --Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays

John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west. The influence of Holliday’s genteel upbringing never disappeared, but it was increasingly overshadowed by his emerging western personality. Holliday himself nurtured his image as a frontier gambler and gunman. Using previously undisclosed family documents and reminiscences as well as other primary sources, Tanner documents the true story of Doc’s friendship with the Earp brothers and his run-ins with the law, including the climactic shootout at the O. K. Corral and its aftermath. This first authoritative biography of Doc Holliday should appeal both to historians of the West and to general readers who are interested in his poignant story. "Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait will be considered the definitive Holliday biography and will supplant all previously published works on the man’s life as a complete and authoritative account. This book will undoubtedly take a place among the foremost books in the Western gunfighter genre." - Robert K. DeArment, author of Alias Frank Canton

Could her closed heart… Still have room for him? Olivia Donoghue’s life has turned a corner. The radiologist’s eleven-year-old daughter is finally healthy, and she just moved to her best friend’s dreamy hometown of Adelaide Creek, Wyoming. If only her friend’s prodigal brother, Jeff Stanhope, wasn’t complicating matters. It's clear Jeff's kindness knows no bounds, having taken in his late roommate's teenage son and also offering her a cabin to stay in, but Olivia’s heart is already full…and safe. Is the former rancher worth the risk? From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Back to Adelaide Creek Book 1: The Rancher's Wyoming Twins Book 2: The Doc's Holiday Homecoming

It all started with one letter. It was unopened, unscathed, unread, and hidden in one of Dr. John Henry Holliday's traveling cases. The letter's dark secret revealed that Doc, thirteen years prior, fathered a child, with his beloved cousin, Martha Ann Holliday. With this revelation came a morbid, cynical twist to fate that would forever change each participants life forever. * * * An adventurous tale about Doctor John Henry Holliday. A very educated and refined southern boy, who had survived the Civil War, and grew up to become a respected Dentist, but became plagued with tuberculosis at a very young age, and traded his status in life, along with family and friends in Georgia, to travel west and try to improve his health. However, in the course of time he became a gambler, fearless gunfighter, and at times would engage in wild business ventures. His life has intrigued us because he was unusual and not by any means typical to most men who would have visited wild and unsettled cow towns. Written from a fresh prospective, of what could have been true in the dark secretive life of one of America’s legendary western hero’s. He is joined by his best friend and colleague, Wyatt Earp, as well as a companion, and known prostitute, Kate Fisher, who was better known as “Big Nose Kate,” and his beloved cousin, Martha Ann Holliday, whom Doc had always had a special bond with, and whom became a nun after Doc left and went west. This is a story full of surprises, cattle rustling, murder, gambling, deceitful acquaintances and adventurous fun. This is the first of five highly anticipated fictional novels, others will be about growing up during the Civil War, traveling from one cow town to another, Tombstone adventures, and the revealing of many secrets that one man, none other than the infamous Doc Holliday, held deep within his ravaged body. So sit down, Partner, saddle up and enjoy this heart-pounding ride.

I entered the New York Police Academy in 1965 and my first assignment was to the 23rd Precinct and then 13th Precinct on patrol and also with their Anti-Crime Unit. In 1970 I attended the Criminal Investigations Course and was assigned to Plainclothes duties with the Organized Crime Control Bureau investigating Gambling, Prostitution and Narcotics violations in Queens County. In 1974 I was transferred to the Special Operations Section. This unit was tasked with the investigation and surveillance of the Five New York Crime Families (Gambino, Columbo, Genovese, Giganti and Luchese). For several months I operated in an undercover capacity posing as a corrupt officer during which time the operation netted over $50,000 in cash and merchandise including an all- expense paid trip to Las Vegas for myself and my partner. We were being tested to see if we really were corrupt. As a result of this investigation over 40 members of Organized Crime were arrested and convicted. In 1979 I was promoted to Detective 3rd Grade and transferred to Queens County District Attorney’s Squad, where I continued my investigations of Organized Crime with the investigation of John Gotti and his crime family. This investigation led to my promotion to Detective 2nd Grade. In 1985 I retired after 20 years of service.

In the 1800s, Tombstone was a rowdy silver-mining camp and the scene of a famous gunfight that enhanced its wicked reputation. When the rich silver mines were tapped out, Tombstone managed to survive and lived up to its motto, "The Town Too Tough to Die." The movie industry enhanced this wild reputation by portraying legendary gunfights at the O.K. Corral--which never actually took place at that location. For many years, the town has used its history to attract visitors by giving them a sense of life in the Old West. This volume includes many of the postcards tourists mailed home depicting romanticized and legendary views of Tombstone.