Peter Brandvold, Ash Lingam Discuss New Western Novels

New releases from Peter Brandvold and Ash Lingam over at Wolfpack Publishing means my TBR pile just a got a little bigger, y'all.

Both authors commented on their new books which released on May 5, 2026. Peter Brandvold spoke about the newest entry in the hit Nordic and Finn series titled Drygulch Valley. Marking the fourth entry in the series, Brandvold discussed why this book in particular was so dear to his own heart...

“Hello the Fire! I have another entry in my Nordic & Finn series coming out May 5th — Drygulch Country. This series is especially close to my heart because it centers around a fella and a dog, that special relationship you know if you’re a man alone with a dog alone. Finn is especially poignant for me as I lost my own “Finn” — Buddy — around two months ago. But the Nordic & Finn series keeps both me and Buddy alive and together. You can’t ask much more than that.” - Peter Brandvold

ONE MAN. ONE DOG. AND A WHOLE TOWN FULL OF HELL TO PAY.

Anders Nordic didn't ride into trouble; trouble found him. When a beaten, half-dead young woman stumbles into his mountain camp, the big man from Dakota does what any decent man would: he helps her. But decency comes at a price in Drygulch Country.

The girl belongs to Brother Beillor, a self-proclaimed prophet who's seized the mining town of Moffat, renamed it after himself, and rules its people through fear, faith, and the barrels of his followers' guns. Beillor wants the girl back. He also helped himself to Nordic's twenty-five hundred dollars. That was a mistake.

With his wolf-dog Finn at his side, a Winchester on his hip, and a cold fury building in his chest, Nordic rides into Beillorville to settle accounts — in lead and blood. Along the way he'll find unlikely allies: a rancher waging his own war against Beillor, a red-haired gunman searching for his kidnapped sister, and a half-Arapaho woman as deadly as she is beautiful.

But Beillor's got an army of true believers, a corrupt sheriff, and a stranglehold on every soul in the canyon. Getting in will be easy. Getting out alive—with the women, the money, and his hide intact—is another matter entirely.

DRYGULCH COUNTRY is Book 4 in the Nordic & Finn series—a full-throttle Western adventure packed with blistering gunfights, sharp dialogue, and the kind of hero who solves his problems the old-fashioned way.

Can be read as a standalone.

Get your copy HERE!

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Ash Lingam's newest series with Wolfpack Publishing is described as a a first-person Texas Ranger launch full of grit, gun smoke, and frontier justice. Lingam spoke about what makes Dead Man Walking special enough to kick off the Rayland Gibbs Texas Ranger Western series...

“I have something new in store for readers with Dead Man Walking. I have written an exciting, action-packed Texas Ranger tale. It’s not my first, but it may be my best. The story opens when Ranger Rayland Gibbs finds his boss, Captain Lynch Moon, drygulched in the Chihuahua Desert. Lynch Moon is the wrong man to leave alive, though. He’s harder to kill than a bad rumor. Rayland is the quiet sort who lets his guns do most of his talking. He kills seven men in seven minutes. And he’s just getting started.” - Ash Lingam

They shot him in the back and left him for the vultures—but a Texas Ranger’s death isn’t that easy to claim.

Captain Lynch Moon should be dead, rotting under a brutal desert sun. Instead, Sergeant Rayland Gibbs finds him barely breathing—clinging to life by a thread and a hunger for justice. Whoever pulled the trigger didn’t just wound a Ranger. They started something they won’t be able to stop.

Rayland takes the trail and rides it hard. Across scorched plains and into the lawless edge of El Paso, the hunt turns savage—ambushes, close-range gunfights, and one brutal hour that leaves seven men dead in the dust. With a sharp-eyed newspaperman at his side, Rayland closes in on a killer who thought he’d vanish without consequence.

But justice doesn’t end at the barrel of a gun. Back in Laredo, as the gallows waits, new trouble is already taking shape—and one encounter with Ellie Brackenridge threatens to pull Rayland into a storm he won’t see coming.

Texas Rangers, relentless manhunts, high-body-count gunfights, frontier justice, and the spark of something dangerous beneath it all. If you want grit, speed, and a lawman who doesn’t quit—grab your copy of DEAD MAN WALKING now.

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