S M Ballard: 6 books

John Henry “Doc” Holliday, Georgia gentleman, dentist turned gambler, a consumptive whose days are numbered, follows his friend, Wyatt Earp to the boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona Territory. From the moment Holliday sets foot on the dusty Tombstone streets, his path as a lawman is set. Time and again he risks life and safety for his friends and for justice.

In the days before they became legends, John Henry “Doc” Holliday, a Georgia dentist turned gambler whose constant companion is the specter of early death, and Wyatt Earp, a rough hewn frontier lawman saddled with a taciturn nature and an iron clad sense of justice, forge an unlikely alliance to hunt down the brutal killers of a young Dodge City woman.

Sexy, savvy, smart, in love with one man yet drawn to another, Hungarian born blue blood Mary Katherine Haroney, aka Kate Elder, lives life on the edge. And the edge in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, circa 1880, is a dangerous place indeed.

Teenagers Marty Rogers from northern New England and Shelby Kingdom from the deep south, discover war doesn't always divide people, but sometimes brings them together. Based on a true incident, the Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vermont in October of 1864, The Raider is a story of courage, honor and friendship during that strife-filled time in American history - The Civil War.

Death Takes a Holliday follows Henry McKey Holliday's transition from unsure youth to confident, accomplished adult in the turbulent Arizona Territory of the waning years of the 19th Century. Henry is a young man locked in an ongoing quest for self and past while forging a future in a changing world. A...

Intrigue, mystery, murder, 1905, Pearce, Arizona Territory. Micah Rogers is summoned to the gold rush boomtown of Pearce by a friend in desperate need of help. Indeed, the situation is one of life or death and involves a mysterious object men have killed to possess. This object found its way...