Hey there!

I’m shouting it out today for two new titles that are just out from Burt Tyson as part of his new The Devil’s Shadow series that look like great western HF reading!

Here’s the scoop:

What remains when everything a man has built his life on is taken from him without warning? In The Devil’s Shadow series by Burt Tyson, Captain Robert Hester’s journey begins in the aftermath of war and follows the difficult choices that take shape when duty gives way to something far more personal.

Synopsis:
The end of the war leaves Captain Robert Hester in a world that no longer resembles the one he fought to preserve. Wounded, hunted, and without a place in the future taking shape around him, he is forced to confront what remains when everything he relied on has been stripped away. What follows is not simply survival, but a reckoning with loss, memory, and the limits of the code he has tried to live by.

In The Shadow Appears, Hester awakens to the collapse of the Confederacy and the reality that his name has already been marked for death. Once a cavalry officer under Mosby, he returns home expecting what little remains of his former life, only to find devastation that changes everything in a single brutal moment. The war becomes something deeply personal. Riding with his loyal sergeant, he moves through a defeated landscape where former soldiers have become outlaws and survival often comes at the expense of honor, each mile pulling him further from the man he once was.

With vengeance behind him, The Shadow Grows finds Hester without direction. He drifts into unfamiliar territory, carrying the weight of everything he has lost, surviving one day at a time. A chance encounter introduces a different way of living, shaped by patience, discipline, and endurance. When violence reaches a small mountain town, he must decide whether to walk away as he has before or stand and fight, knowing the choice will determine who he becomes.

Author bio:

Burt Tyson writes historical Western fiction rooted in the aftermath of the Civil War, where questions of honor, loss, and survival take center stage. Influenced by classic storytellers like Louis L’Amour, Larry McMurtry, and the Western television heroes he grew up watching, his work explores what happens when the fight is over and a man is left to decide who he is without it.

His Devil’s Shadow series follows Captain Robert Hester through a fractured post-war America and into the unforgiving frontier beyond.

Tyson lives in a small town in South Carolina, where the landscape is quiet—but the stories he tells are anything but. Visit Burt at his website.

Amazon link – not affiliated with BBNB: https://bit.ly/4vTQamj

Goodreads: 

THE SHADOW APPEARS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/242866374-the-shadow-appearsTHE SHADOW GROWS: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/249546840-the-shadow-grows