Sign-In
Cart
Bill Longley Rides Alone - No Friends. No Law. Just a Fast Horse!
Paperback
Series: Texas Outlaw, Book 3
Publisher: Beebop Publishing Group
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 276
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
BILL LONGLEY RIDES ALONE
No Friends. No Law. Just a Fast Horse.
A Legend Forged in Gunfire, Bound by Blood, and Haunted by God.
He was a Texas son born of black soil, Sunday sermons, and six-shooters. A preacher's boy raised on Scripture and sweat, taught to fear the Lord and till the land-but who instead learned to speak the gospel of gunpowder. His name? Bill Longley.
Not Jesse James. Not Sam Bass. Not Billy the Kid. But to those who truly knew the underbelly of the American frontier, Bill Longley was the name whispered around campfires long after the whiskey ran dry. He was the outlaw you prayed you never saw ride into town. The storm came without warning. The shadow that never lingered but always returned. And this-this is the story of the man who rode alone.
They say Bill Longley killed thirty-two men. They say he laughed at the hangman. They say his bullets never missed. But what they don't say-what most can't say-is who he really was underneath the legend. A boy who once memorized the Psalms. A son who watched the war tear his family apart. A man whose soul never stopped boiling, even when his hands finally went cold. They say Bill was a killer. And they're right. But he was more than that. He was a mirror-reflecting the broken heart of Texas in the years after the Civil War. A time when laws changed, but justice didn't. A time when grief festered into a rage and turned boys into outlaws, farmers into fugitives, and riders into ghosts.
Bill Longley was a ghost long before he ever died.
He rode from Lee County like a man chased by something no bullet could stop. Was it vengeance? Guilt? Or was it just the crushing weight of being born at the wrong time with the wrong fire in his blood? The answers ride with you through every page of Bill Longley Rides Alone, a visceral, emotionally charged novel that doesn't just tell you about an outlaw-it puts you in the saddle beside him.
This isn't a hero's journey. And it's not a villain's fall.
It's a reckoning.
The novel begins not with a gunfight but with silence. The kind of silence that seeps into a boy's bones when he realizes his father's prayers can't stop the storm coming for his family. Bill grew up watching the world around him unravel. Cotton fields became battlefields. Neighbors became enemies. And lawmen? They were just faster killers with shiny badges.
When he first pulled a trigger in anger, it wasn't glory he found-it was grief. It followed him like a second shadow. Every time he rode away, blood followed. Every town he entered whispered his name before the saloon doors even swung shut. And yet, Bill Longley didn't ride to make a name-he rode because staying still meant facing the faces of the dead.
You'll ride with him to Bell County, where a land dispute turns into a gunshot that echoes through generations. You'll flee with him through the canyons of Blanco, feel the law tightening like a noose behind him, and smell the black powder burning in a narrow alleyway as another man falls. You'll meet the preacher who doesn't give up on him, the woman who loved him long before the killings, and the brother who waited with a porch light burning in case Bill ever came home.
This is not a Western dressed in white hats and shootouts at noon. This is Texas after the war, where revenge was quicker than courts and where every man rode with a Bible in his saddlebag and a rifle under his coat. This is the Texas that raised Bill Longley. And it's the one he left bleeding behind him.
He had no gang. No posse. No code but his own.
Bill Longley rode alone.
No friends. No law. Just a fast horse.
But even a fast horse can't outrun what's buried in your past.
Also from
James, Sidney St
How to Plot a Novel That Sells: Scene by Scene Blueprint for Mastering Story Structure, Pacing, and Conflict
James, Sidney St
Paperback
The ROSE of Brays Bayou: The Runaway Scrape - The Sabine Shoot - The Great Runaway
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Phantom of Black Rock Cove: Death is Nothing More than Passing from One Room into Another
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Gideon Returns - A Damsel in Distress "Eine Jungfrau in Noten": A Damsel in Distress - "Eine Jungfrau in Noten"
James, Sidney St
Paperback
BRIDGET FLYNN - A Female Detective: The Case of the Knights of the Silver Circle
James, Sidney St
Paperback
The Evergreen Legacy - A Heartwarming Tale of Love, Forgiveness, and Christmas Miracles
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Shadows of the Sacred Grove - Journey Through Darkness to Restore the Light
James, Sidney St
Paperback
The Last Prayer of Mason Creek - A Town Shaped by Legacy, Secrets & Prayer
James, Sidney St
Paperback
An Angel for Christmas Past - A Christmas Story of Angels and Second Chances
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Heretics in Petticoats - A Sacred Story of Women Who Would Not be Silenced
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Chronicles of Creativity: How 100 Novels Were Written; Lessons in Creativity, Craft, and Consistency
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Angels of the Revolution: A Dystopian Romance Thriller of Power, Betrayal, and the Last Fight for Freedom
James, Sidney St
Paperback
The Stone Was Rolled Away - Fifty Parables and a Kingdom That Could Not be Buried
James, Sidney St
Paperback
Stitched for Sin - The Erotic Rampage of Frankenstein's Deadly Seductress
James, Sidney St
Heat, Carmen
Paperback
Also in
Westerns
These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901: Arizona Territories
Turner, Nancy
Paperback
The Last Ride of the Dirty Creek Gang (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, William W.
Johnstone, J. A.
Hardcover
The Best of Enemies: A Trace and Chaw Western (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, William W.
Johnstone, J. A.
Hardcover
Bullets, Biscuits, and Bloodshed (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, J. A.
Johnstone, William W.
Hardcover
The Collected Short Stories of Louis l'Amour, Volume 4, Part 1: Adventure Stories
L'Amour, Louis
Paperback
I'm Here to Kill You: The Last Mountain Man and the Taming of the West
Johnstone, William W.
Johnstone, J. a.
Paperback
Fool's Gold: A Novel of the Gold Rush (Large Print Edition)
Johnstone, William W.
Johnstone, J. A.
Paperback
John Williams: Collected Novels (Loa #349): Butcher's Crossing / Stoner / Augustus
Williams, John
Hardcover