James & Livia Reasoner

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JamesLivia.jpg (113117 bytes)Welcome to our Web site!

First we'd like to introduce ourselves to newcomers.  We're husband and wife writers who grew up in a small Texas town.  We write both together and apart, and have produced over one hundred novels ranging from sagas of the American West and Westerns to Fantasies, Romances, and  Mysteries.

Check out what we've been up to.

NEW!
Tales from DEADWOOD

By Mike Jameson
(aka James Reasoner)

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Published November 2005
Autographed copies for sale at
The Book Place

 It's 1876. Dan Ryan, formerly, of Custer's 7th Cavalry, is leading a party of prospectors to the Black Hills-Sioux territory-where gold was discovered two years before. Although off-limits to whites, the region is overrun by so many fortune-seekers that the U.S. Army is powerless to stop then. Besides, what'sa paper treaty worth next to gold-rich land?

In nearby Deadwood, men raise hell all night after, prospecting all day. An outlaw town with no right to exist on Indian land, Deadwood is a lawless cesspool where those who strike it rich can lose everything-including their lives. Possibly the meanest man in the Dakotas, Al Swearengen sells liquor that can poison a man when gold is !n solved. And now, even Calamity Jane and the legendary Wild Bill Hickok--losing his eyesight but still finding trouble-are coming to stake their claim.

Dan Ryan is going to have to fend off roaming gunmen, angry Sioux, ruthless gamblers, whores, and thieving prospectors in order to protect his claim, because in `the Badlands of Deadwood, trouble always comes at you from behind...

NEW!

The Palmetto Trilogy
Book One – Call to Arms

By Livia Hallam
with James Reasoner

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Published Fall 2005
Autographed copies for sale at
The Book Place

On December 20, 1860, a momentous occasion takes place in the beautiful, graceful old city of Charleston, South Carolina.  A secession ordinance withdrawing South Carolina from the Union is signed in Institute Hall, and a festive celebration erupts throughout the city.  At least in the minds of most of its citizens, the former state is now a sovereign nation.

Joining in this celebration are cadets from the Citadel, a state-run military institute.  Two of these cadets are Robert Gilmore and Allard Tyler, who are good friends despite vast differences in their backgrounds.  Allard is from a wealthy Charleston ship-building family, and Robert is from a much less well-to-do farm family in the interior of the state.  Stirred by the patriotic fever that grips Charleston, both young men vow that if secession leads to war with the North, they will withdraw from the Citadel and join the battle against the Yankees.

The stories of these young people and their friends and families play out against a backdrop of secession fever and the drumbeat of impending war.

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This is James Reasoner taken while he was researching the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Lexington for his W.W.II series, THE LAST GOOD WAR, published by Forge.

James is well known in the writing field for his Civil War series and his Dana Fuller Ross WAGONS WEST prequels .

Email James at james53@flash.ne

Livia Reasoner writes mysteries and westerns under her maiden name L.J. Washburn and romances under the name Elizabeth Hallam.

Livia is currently working on a new mystery series for Signet.  The first book will be published in 2006.

Email Livia at livia@flash.net

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