A High Sierra Christmas

With over 30 million books sold, William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone are the bestselling Western writers in the world and are hailed as the greatest Western writers of the 21st century. In November 2018, the Johnstones make Christmas Great again as they take readers back to the early days of Reno, Nevada and continue their bestselling annual tradition with A High Sierra Christmas. Because what are the holidays without burning justice, blazing bullets, life-threatening natural disasters and an angry ghost of the Donner Party?JOHNSTONE JUSTICE. MADE IN AMERICA.A Jensen family holiday takes a dark and dangerous turn-on the infamous Donner Pass-in this thrilling epic adventure from the bestselling Johnstones …It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the High Sierras. But Smoke Jensen and his children, Louis and Denise, won’t let a little snow stop them from heading to Reno for the holidays. There are two ways for them to get there: the long way, going around the Sierra Nevada Mountains, or the short way, going right through them. Smoke decides to take a gamble. They’ll follow the trail that, decades earlier, brought the legendary Donner Party to a gruesome, tragic end …And so the journey begins. The Jensens share a stagecoach with a stranger who’s planning to rob a bank. Smoke wants to stop him, as well as his notorious gang of outlaws. But he’s outgunned and outnumbered. And when a blizzard traps them in the mountains, he’s out of luck too. Like the Donner Party before them, the Jensens will be forced to do whatever it takes to survive. This time, they’re hoping history doesn’t repeat itself. But sometimes, the ghosts of the past just won’t stayburied …