Book excerpt: THE FIRST LONE STAR NOVEL—PLUS THE LONGARM THAT STARTED IT ALL! Longarm and the Lone Star Legend When the biggest cattle baron in Texas is assassinated, the Feds send in U.S. Marshal Long. Longarm finds himself threatened by a conspiracy reaching from Washington to Japan, armed with a strange new weapon never seen before in the West. But Longarm finds allies in the unlikely duo of breathtaking beauty Jessica Starbuck and her mysterious protector Ki. Together, they’re out for blood and justice…and Longarm is in for the time of his life! Lone Star on the Treachery Trail When the cartel murdered Jessie Starbuck’s father, they left behind the seed of their own destruction: a young Western beauty with a deep hunger for vengeance. Now word has reached Jessie that the conspirators are rustling Starbuck cattle, hiring Starbuck ranchers, and buying up Starbuck land in a spectacular plot to win control of the West. Unless she and her partner Ki can “persuade” them to stop…