Lady Gunsmith Books

Roxanne Louise Doyle (Roxy) is Lady Gunsmith, the daughter of Gavin Doyle. When she was a child, traveling west on a wagon train, her mother was killed, leaving her father alone to raise and care for his little girl. Unsure of himself in this endeavor he proceeded the only way he knew how, with a gun. He traveled, hiring out as a bounty hunter, and sending the money to a family in Missouri who were raising his daughter. Eventually, the money stopped coming, and the assumption was that Gavin Doyle was dead… Roxy decided to travel the West looking for news of her father. She wanted to know for sure whether he was dead or alive. Wearing britches, boots and a man’s work shirt, she set off, taking only a dress and a gun. She’d managed to steal and hide her foster father’s big Navy Colt, keeping it with her to defend herself from his advances, should the need arise. In the afternoons, she would sneak away and practice with the gun. She soon learned she had inherited one thing from her father—the uncanny ability to shoot. Eventually her target shooting, no matter how much smaller the targets kept getting, reached the point where she never . . . ever . . . missed. Lady Gunsmith is an adult western series that will recall the series that were predominant in the 80’s and what made them popular—strong characters, no political correctness, all adventure and bawdiness. This time, the series stars a hot, sexy woman who has a ferocious sexual appetite and is unmatched with a gun. She is called “Lady Gunsmith” because she is the female version of her mentor, Clint Adams, the Gunsmith.

Roxy Doyle is contacted by Allan Pinkerton of the famed Pinkerton Agency, who requests that she go undercover in San Francisco's Barbary Coast in a place that has come to be known as The Shanghai Saloon. Since she was recommended to Pinkerton by Clint Adams, the Gunsmith, she decides to take the job. She ends up working as a saloon girl, and is on the lookout for a gang who has been shanghaiing men at an alarming rate. When one man is killed rather than taken, the job becomes one that might even threaten her own life. Although she's wearing colorful dresses rather than her normal trail clothes, she's still Lady Gunsmith, and uses both her gun and her feminine wiles to do the job.

Roxy receives a message from Robert Pinkerton who says her father has been spotted near Blackhawk, Colorado. Roxy goes there, arriving broke and discovers there’s a circus in town sponsoring a sharpshooting contest, with a first prize of $500. If she could win, the money would fund her search for her father for months. The attraction in the contest is the circus’s own sharpshooter, Bill Weatherly. While in Blackhawk, competing in the contest, someone takes a shot at her. It turns out later that there’s a man traveling with the circus who is hiding out because he heard Gavin Doyle was on his trail. When he realizes Roxy is a Doyle, he thinks she’s working with her father. Roxy meets the odd characters who work with the circus, while attempting to find out who wants her dead and also trying to win the $500.

Spotting a photo in a newspaper she thinks is her father sends Roxy Doyle to Santa Fe New Mexico. A visit to the Mathew Brady studio—and a dalliance with an artist—confirms her suspicions and directs her to Tombstone, to the Fly Gallery, right next to the O.K. Corral. Roxy has no idea what a powderkeg she’s riding into. All she wants to learn is who took her father’s picture, and if Gavin Doyle told the photographer where he was going. But with Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Johnny Ringo, and the Clanton's facing off, she finds she just might be in the middle of a hailstorm of lead. But whose side would she be on?

ROXY’S search for her father, bounty hunter Gavin Doyle, has been fruitless. She finds herself in Sheridan, Wyoming, after following a rumor that he was there. While in town a woman named Jane Doyle approaches her claiming to be Gavin’s wife. She tells Roxy her father’s in trouble and needs help, and that she’ll lead her to him. Roxy prepares to leave Sheridan on horseback with Jane, but the following morning the woman has vanished. Roxy is determined to track her, no matter how far, to find if she was telling the truth about being married to Gavin Doyle. But, whether or not the woman’s husband is her father, Roxy discovers they are being tracked by a band of outlaws, intent on killing them. Roxy must do what she can to keep everyone alive, including herself.

Gavin Doyle has reportedly been seen around St. Joseph, Missouri. Once there, Roxy spots a man who someone tells her is “Thomas Howard.” But she knows the man by his real name—Jesse James. She had been introduced to Jesse by Belle Starr some time ago, and had also had a tryst with his brother, Frank. Jesse’s looking for reliable people to form a new gang. He tries to recruit Roxy. He then asks her to keep his secret and not expose him, for he and his wife have bought a house in St. Joe and are living there under the Howard alias. When several attempts are made to kill her, Roxy has to wonder if Jesse is behind the attempts, or if it’s someone else, entirely?

While in Leadville, Colorado, Roxy Doyle is asked by Silver Baron Horace Tabor to take on the task of finding out who is trying to sabotage his mining operation. At the same time, she meets Tabor’s young wife, the Silver Queen Baby Doe Tabor. Both of the Tabors are depending on her to keep their Matchless Mine from going under. To do that she must go undercover at the mine and risk her life to discover who committed sabotage and murder to try and ruin the lives of Horace and Baby Doe Tabor.

Traveling through Arizona, Roxy Doyle comes across a woman being pursued by multiple riders, intent on not only catching her, but possibly killing her. Roxy takes a hand, helps the woman hold off the riders and escape. Later, she discovers that the woman, Angela Blackthorne, has an unusual occupation for a female. She is a hangman—or hang “woman.” She has picked up that mantle from her father, who recently was killed to keep him from doing his job. Angela is intent on finishing her father’s task, as well as finding out who killed him. And simply because she likes Angela, and knows she’ll be drastically outnumbered in her efforts, Roxy decides to accompany her, essentially acting as a bodyguard. Both women ride to the next town together, knowing the odds will be against them, but determined to stay alive, and succeed.

When Roxy Doyle is attacked by a band of gunmen, she discovers they’ve mistaken her for a famed gunfighter, Angel Eyes. When Roxy encounters Liz Doyle, Angel Eyes, Roxy steps in to help her. They find out that somebody has put a price on the head of Angel Eyes. Roxy and Liz Archer decide to combine forces to find out who put the price on Archer’s head, and they find themselves possibly at odds with an entire town.