Randolph Conall is Fairawayland’s iconic cowboy star: a laconic, fiercely independent veteran who built his career portraying lawmen, ranchers, gunfighters, and solitary heroes guided by a deeply personal code. Across nine interconnected novellas, his classic Westerns and later modern dramas explore feuding families, boomtown corruption, lost treasure, haunted landscapes, economic decline, cultural upheaval, and ordinary people struggling to protect their homes and communities. Some stories recreate the mythic world of old cowboy cinema, while others bring the Western into contemporary Zendula, where the frontier survives in rural towns confronting globalization, political conflict, moral panic, and supernatural forces.
Behind the films runs the story of Randolph himself—a private man whose screen persona is never entirely separate from the life he refuses to discuss. His productions reveal his loyalty to working people, his distrust of distant institutions, and his belief that courage means standing alone when necessary. They also trace a more intimate journey through war, friendship, marriage, fatherhood, loss, and the search for a son who has disappeared into a modern city consumed by unrest. Blending Western adventure, social drama, supernatural horror, mystery, romance, and political commentary, the Randolph Conall series asks whether the values of the old frontier—honor, self-reliance, responsibility, and loyalty—can survive in a world determined to leave them behind.
Novella 1:
Boom Town
Novella 2:
To the Last Man
Novella 3:
A Dancer’s Pivot
Novella 4:
So Red the Rose
Novella 5:
He Rides the Hills
Novella 6:
Ten Wanted Men
Novella 7:
The Doolins of the Bloodlands
Novella 8:
The Egregore
Novella 9:
NPC
Series Bundle
Illustrations
Novella 1: Boom Town
Boom Town is rich. Too rich. Cowboys flood the streets with money. Merchants profit from vice. Railroad men see fortunes waiting beyond the horizon. Farmers arrive to build new lives. Everyone wants something. Then the murders begin. Only Sheriff Dan Mitchell—a quiet widower determined to uphold the law—stands between Boom Town and complete destruction. But the deeper he investigates, the more he realizes greed isn’t the only danger hiding beyond the frontier.
Boom Town reimagines the classic Hollywood cattle-town western within the world of Zendula, introducing Randolph Conall’s signature hero: a quiet, principled sheriff who stands between greed, corruption, frontier justice, and supernatural secrets. Beneath the familiar cowboys-versus-farmers conflict lies a murder mystery, political intrigue, and an unsettling supernatural conspiracy.
📖 Read >
Novella 2: To the Last Man
For generations the Haydens and Colbys have hunted one another. Families have fallen. Ranches have been lost. Children have grown up believing revenge is their inheritance. Now only a handful remain. When railroad surveyor Lynn Hayden crosses paths with Ellen Colby, neither realizes they are speaking to the child of their family’s greatest enemy. Breaking the cycle may prove even harder than continuing it.
To the Last Man is Randolph Conall’s reimagining of the classic Zane Grey western, transformed into a tragic frontier saga about generational hatred, family honor, forbidden love, and the terrible cost of revenge. Against a backdrop of ranching, railroads, and the fading frontier, two descendants of feuding families discover that breaking a cycle of violence may demand more courage than continuing it.
📖 Read >
Novella 3: A Dancer’s Pivot
Jim Dancer is dead. At least that’s what everyone believes. The infamous outlaw vanished after years of pursuit. Now, under a different name, he swings a railroad hammer instead of a revolver. But boomtowns create trouble as quickly as they create opportunity. And some legends refuse to stay buried.
A Dancer’s Pivot follows the legendary outlaw Jim Dancer after five years on the run. Hunted across the frontier, scarred by violence, and haunted by the choices that destroyed his former life, Dancer is given an unexpected chance to begin again. But escaping the past proves far more difficult than surviving it, especially as railroad expansion, boomtown politics, and old enemies threaten to pull him back toward the man he once was.
📖 Read >
Novella 4: So Red the Rose
The war is ending. But not for Duncan Bedford Rafer. While others avoid service, Duncan answers the call. He survives the fall of Saigon. He survives abandonment. He survives betrayal. Now he must discover whether honor still matters in a world that has forgotten it.
So Red the Rose follows Duncan Bedford Rafer as the Vietnam War reaches its devastating conclusion and the Bedford family finds itself divided by politics, class, loyalty, and betrayal. While one generation believes the war is ending in peace, another is left to endure its final horrors. As old values collide with a rapidly changing world, Duncan must survive not only war itself but the abandonment of everything he once believed would endure.
📖 Read >
Novella 5: He Rides the Hills Alone
Ten riders cross Zendula’s Bone Desert in search of a legendary wagon train and a fortune buried beneath the walking hills of sand. Each has a reason to want the gold.
A failing business.
A lost ranch.
A mountain of debt.
A chance to begin again.
But the treasure hunt is not entirely real. It is the story of a modern western being filmed on location by Randolph Conall, an intensely private actor-producer approaching the end of a long career. The cast includes an embittered former lover, her ambitious new boyfriend, a secretive detective, a young cowboy burdened by family obligations, and several people whose hidden agendas reach far beyond the screenplay.
As the production continues, the characters’ fictional conflicts begin reflecting the cast’s real lives. Rivalries intensify. Blackmail surfaces. Actors die under circumstances that may not be accidental. Conall has designed the film as more than entertainment. It is bait. But in the isolation of the desert, even the man who set the trap may not control what it catches.
📖 Read >
Novella 6: Ten Wanted Men
Ten hired men arrive in North Rufus. They claim to be ranch hands. No one believes them. After an elderly rancher is murdered, evidence vanishes and a powerful hotel owner moves to seize his land. Soon witnesses are threatened, a teenage girl is hunted by her own guardian, and the town’s citizens realize that the newcomers were hired for one purpose:
Intimidation. Widowed rancher John Stewart has fought powerful enemies before. But this time he isn’t only defending his land. He is defending an entire town—and the possibility of a future he never believed he would have.
📖 Read >
Novella 7: The Doolins of the Bloodlands
The bank called them obsolete. The Doolins decided to collect. Veterans forgotten by their country. Workers discarded by the new economy. Hackers with nowhere else to belong. Each has a grievance against Chas Treasury and Bank. Together they rob its branches, expose its secrets, and return its crimes to public view. To desperate citizens, they are heroes. To the authorities, they are wanted criminals.
But as revenge becomes personal and one member breaks the gang’s code, the Doolins discover that stealing millions may be easier than surviving what the money awakens inside them.
📖 Read >
Novella 8: The Egregore
Something has entered Room 4. It looks like a teacher. Miss Muridae appears timid, harmless, and forgettable. Then the bullying gets worse. A foster child becomes the class scapegoat. Boys are punished for crimes they have not committed. Accusations spread through the school. Parents turn against one another. And Crabapple Town begins hunting monsters. But the real monster may be feeding on the hunt itself. The Egregore is a supernatural small-town thriller about fear, groupthink, and the deadly power of a moral panic.
📖 Read >
Novella 9: NPC
Valere Morgan has lost everything. His job. His family. His freedom. His mother. But he has not forgotten Rose. Released from prison and condemned as a dangerous extremist, Valere resumes his investigation into the child’s murder and the institutions that refused to protect her.
Only Constance remains beside him. She is an obsolete Robota—built to serve, dismissed as outdated, and supposedly incapable of genuine emotion. Yet as the city turns against Valere, Constance may be the only one who still recognizes his humanity.
📖 Read >
Randolph Conall Series Bundle
All nine novella in one e-book.
📖 Read >
Randolph Conall Illustration Gallery
You must be logged in to post a comment.