Rio Bonito Book Blog Tour

 

RIO BONITO
The Three Rivers Trilogy, Book 2
By PRESTON LEWIS
Categories: Western / Historical Fiction
Publisher: Five Star Publishing
Pub Date: August 18, 2021
Pages: 336 pages

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Sneak Peek at Rio Hondo,

the final book in the Three Rivers Trilogy

by Preston Lewis

(coming 2022)


ABOUT RIO HONDO, BOOK THREE: With the embers of the Lincoln County War still burning, rancher Wes Bracken must rebuild his life amid the white-hot animosities lingering from the deadly feud.  His vengeful brother-in-law vows to kill him, the county’s economic kingpin seeks revenge and the despicable outlaw Jesse Evans, who violated Bracken’s wife, intends to murder Bracken and his young family. 

Two promises complicate Bracken’s survival chances:  a pledge not to kill his wife’s brother and a commitment to help William H. Bonney earn a governor’s pardon for his crimes.  To survive and fulfill his dream of a peaceful life in 1880s New Mexico Territory, Bracken must fight a corrupt legal system, a duplicitous governor, a ubiquitous political ring, and the evil Jesse Evans. 

If Bracken keeps his promises to his wife and Billy the Kid, he risks an early grave in the same soil that holds so many of the Lincoln County War’s dead.  If he ignores those pledges, he will dishonor the good name he hopes to build his future upon.

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

This novel is a grim look at the impact of the Lincoln County War on the lives of average people who tried to avoid choosing sides amid a legal system sided with the corrupt. Even the innocent who are just trying to get by and make a living get caught up in the violence that permeates Lincoln County. The law of the region never seems to be on the side of the righteous.


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Preston Lewis is the Spur Award-winning author of 40 westerns, historical novels, juvenile books and memoirs.  He has received national awards for his novels, articles, short stories and humor.   

In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments.  Lewis is past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association.   

His historical novel Blood of Texas on the Texas Revolution earned a Spur Award as did his True West article on the Battle of Yellow House Canyon.  He developed the Memoirs of H.H. Lomax series, which includes two Spur finalists and a Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award for western humor for his novel Bluster’s Last Stand on the battle of Little Big Horn.  His comic western The Fleecing of Fort Griffin and two of his YA novels have won Elmer Kelton Awards for best creative work on West Texas from the West Texas Historical Association. 

He began his writing career working for Texas daily newspapers in Abilene, Waco, Orange and Lubbock before going into university administration.  During his 35-year career in higher education, he directed communications and marketing offices at Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and Angelo State University.   

Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Baylor University and master’s degrees from Ohio State in journalism and Angelo State in history.  He lives in San Angelo with his wife, Harriet. 



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TWO WINNERS:
1st: Signed copies of Rio Ruidoso & Rio Bonito; 
2nd: Signed copy of 
Rio Bonito. 
(US only; ends midnight, CDT, 9/17/21)




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