Author Lowell F. Volk announces the nationwide release of his latest Western-themed novel, “A New Beginning.”

After arriving in Colorado, Raquel and Trevor get married and claim land under the Homestead Act.

Luke and Dancing Flower want to go further west but stay the winter to the help Trevor build their new home. Luke, who was thinking about getting land but not wanting to settle down, still had the itch to go further west. When spring comes, he and Dancing Flower head into the Colorado mountains.

At a stage stop, Luke got into a fight with a man who took offense to eating with a squaw. Luke knocks the man to the floor, and the man swears to kill Luke. Luke and Dancing Flower later leave the stage stop and continue higher into the mountains where they find a miner, who was shot.

After saving Zeb’s life in the mountains, Zeb asks Luke to become his new partner to replace his previous partner, who was killed in a mining accident. One day while Zeb and Luke went to town for supplies, the man who wants revenge against Luke finds Dancing Flower alone.

Seeing his chance for revenge, he waits until she leaves the cabin before he goes in.

When she returns, he knocks her out and takes her to an abandoned mine. There he sets his plan to get Luke alone where he can kill both him and Dancing Flower.

Published by Tate Publishing and Enterprises, the book is available through bookstores nationwide, from the publisher at www.tatepublishing.com/bookstore, or by visiting barnesandnoble.com or amazon.com.

Volk is a member of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and the Western Writers of America. Aside from “A New Beginning,” his other books include “The Taylors Civil War,” and “Luke Taylor and Trevor Lane.”

Volk, who is a retired software engineer, lives in Pleasant View, Colo., with his wife, Mary Lou. They also have five children.