Anniversary

Comancheria
Anniversary

Editions:ebook, Hardcover

We May Forget, But History Never Does

Ambrose B. Hollis carries more than a limp. He carries a relic older than memory. Fashioned from a fallen star and passed down through generations, his grandfather’s cane is no ordinary heirloom. It pulls Hollis through the darkest moments in American history, where the past is not merely remembered—it is lived.

Sandy has seen its power before. At the Little Bighorn Battlefield, her husband became a soldier of the Seventh Cavalry, reliving his final hours until history claimed his life. Years later, another stranger met the same fate at the Alamo.

Convinced the impossible events are connected to Hollis and the strange cane he carries, she believes there must be a way to break the cycle. Together, they gamble everything on one final destination: Dallas, November 22, 1963.

But the cane was never meant to rewrite history. It was meant to enforce it.

From the mind of New York Times bestselling author Reavis Z. Wortham, Anniversary is a haunting companion to the Hollow Frontier Series—a dark journey through history, sacrifice, and the terrible price of trying to change what was always meant to be.

Published: July 28, 2026

Publisher: Hat Creek

Genres:

Historical, Paranormal, Western

Tags:

action and adventure, historical fiction, supernatural, weird west, western book series, western books

About the Author

Reavis Z. Wortham

To date, New York Times bestselling author Reavis Z. Wortham pens five different series. Kirkus Reviews listed his first novel, The Rock Hole, in a Starred Review, as one of the “Top 12 Mysteries of 2011.” This Red River historical mystery series is set in Northeast Texas back in the 1960s.

Series number two is the high-octane contemporary western thrillers set in Southwest Texas and features Texas Ranger Sonny Hawke. Hawke’s War won the Spur Award from the Western Writers Association of America as the Best Mass Market Paperback of 2019. He also garnered a second Spur for Hawke’s Target in 2020.

Third series in that same genre features a Texas Southwest and Cattle Raisers Association brand inspector who solves crimes in both the Lone Star State, and Oklahoma. Hard Country released in August, 2023, as one of Amazon’s Editor’s Top Picks for that month.

His fourth series is a return to traditional westerns and begins with The Journey South, which released in the spring of 2024. The Only Saloon in Town releases September 24, 2024.

And now the Buck Dallas western horror series begins with Comancheria! Look for this release date coming soon.

The recipient of numerous Will Rogers Medallion awards, most recently the Gold Medallion for his Red River novel, The Texas Job, Rev has been a newspaper columnist and magazine contributor since 1988, penning over 2,000 columns and articles, and has been the Humor Editor for Texas Fish and Game Magazine for the past 26 years. He and his wife, Shana, live in Northeast Texas.

Find him at your favorite online bookstore or outlet, in all formats. Check out his website at www.reaviszwortham.com

Other Books By Reavis Z. Wortham

Series: The Hollow Frontier

Sorted First to Last

Comancheria

Anniversary

The Phoenix Effect Part 4: The Yield

To Ignite What Becomes
The war between the Resistance and the Unity has reached its breaking point. Armies are exhausted, alliances are fractured, and victory seems farther away than ever. But in the fertile valley of Willowdowns, hope may finally have taken root.
Willowdowns could provide enough food to end the war—and enough power to determine who controls what comes next. For Lia and Arin, securing it means risking everything on a fragile alliance neither can fully trust.
As the final battle approaches, Roland comes face-to-face with the ruthless Unity Commander Martrim. Their confrontation will force Roland to choose between the home he has spent a lifetime trying to reclaim and the future he has fought to build. And when Arin’s plans collide with his own, the fate of Willowdowns—and the future of the Resistance—hangs in the balance.
At last, Lia returns home to the son she nearly lost and begins to rebuild the family torn apart by war. But Malcolm is not the child she remembers. His wounds heal with impossible speed, revealing a connection to Arin and the genetic experiments that changed the world.
In a society built on fear of the altered, Malcolm’s gift could be a miracle—or a warning.
The war may finally be ending. But for Lia and those she loves, the greatest battle may be only beginning.

Frozen Entree

Someone Put Murder on the Menu
A missing food scientist is troubling enough. Finding his severed head in a campus freezer? That’s a recipe for disaster.
When a cereal chemist at Penrose College turns up dead, his department chair hopes to recruit the campus’s unofficial problem-solver—chemical engineering professor Alard Baak—to investigate. Baak has little interest in playing detective until his business partner, Dr. Quinn Zima, points out an inconvenient truth—their finances are scant and their equipment is expensive. Tempted by the promise of a generous fee, Baak reluctantly takes the case.
What begins as a paid inquiry soon becomes a puzzle too intriguing to ignore.
Baak and Quinn dive into a world of academic rivalries, blackmail, falsified research, bruised egos, and long-buried secrets. Everyone in Endicott Hall seems to have a reason to hate the victim. Some may have had a reason to kill him, as well.
As the body count rises and danger closes in, Baak and Quinn must separate fact from deception before the killer strikes again. With Frozen Entree, Pamela L. Harris serves up a mystery packed with twists, wit, and a chilling final reveal.

September 11: A Memoir

Some days define history. Others define the people who lived through it.
Captain William Groneman III never expected September 11, 2001, to become one of those days.His morning began quietly on the shores of Jones Beach.
Then five words drifting from a nearby radio shattered the calm. A plane had struck the World Trade Center. Within moments, everything changed. For the nation, for New York City, for the Fire Department of the City of New York… and for every person whose life would forever be measured by the events of that day.
As Captain of FDNY Engine 308 in Queens, Groneman knew exactly where he needed to be. Racing back to his firehouse, he joined thousands of firefighters who answered the call without hesitation, stepping into a crisis unlike anything the department had ever faced. In the days and months that followed, he and his fellow firefighters searched for survivors, recovered the fallen, battled fires, answered emergency calls across the city, and endured the unimaginable loss of 343 brothers.
Written with the clarity, humility, and quiet resolve of someone who lived it, September 11 offers an unfiltered account of duty, sacrifice, grief, and resilience from the front lines of one of America’s darkest days. Now presented in this 25th Anniversary Edition, Groneman reflects not only on the events themselves but on the memories that continue to echo through the years.
This is one firefighter’s story, but it is also a tribute to every first responder, law enforcement officer, military member, construction worker, volunteer, office worker, and citizen whose courage emerged when the world seemed to stand still. Their stories belong to all of us, and their sacrifice must never be forgotten.

Roan & Weatherford