Welcome to Brazos Bend Publishing
Welcome to Brazos Bend Publishing, the home of author D. K. Barnett.
These stories rise from the dust and water of Texas—where history still whispers in dry wind and the ghosts of men refuse to stay buried.
From the haunted fields of Irish Paladin to the battle-scarred memories of War Wolves and the coming Granbury Trilogy, each book follows those who stand at the edge of belief and ruin, where the light fades and truth begins.
Our work is driven by place—the river bends, the burned farms, the echoes of gunfire across open land. It’s the sound of Texas remembering itself.
Step inside. The past is waiting.
Discover D. K. Barnett's Granburuy Collection
Irish Paladin: A Seer’s Odyssey is a brutal frontier odyssey that follows Roundstone—an Irish immigrant, reluctant seer, and hunted man—across the raw interior of post–Civil War America. Haunted by the ghosts of famine, coffin ships, and blood debts that refuse to stay buried, he carries not only his own scars but a child the world is determined to claim. The land is vast, the law is thin, and every mile forward costs something permanent.
This is not a tale of magic as salvation. Second sight here is a curse—an inheritance paid for in grief, violence, and unbearable responsibility. As Roundstone flees assassins, river ghosts, and the long reach of the Colonna Mafia, the boundary between the living world and something older begins to fail. The past bleeds into the present. Salt follows him inland. And the question is no longer whether he can survive—but what he is willing to become to protect what remains.
Set against Texas rivers, abandoned forges, pine forests, and outlaw roads, Irish Paladin blends historical realism with supernatural menace in a voice that is lean, visceral, and unsentimental. Fans of Cormac McCarthy, Peter Straub, The Revenant, and frontier noir will recognize the terrain: a world where mercy is rare, violence is intimate, and love is measured by what a man refuses to surrender.
This is the story of a father forged by loss, hunted by men, and watched by the dead.
A journey across a continent—and into the cost of seeing too much.
The Granbury Trilogy
by D. K. Barnett
Across three beautifully crafted hardbound volumes, The Granbury Trilogy chronicles the birth and growth of one Texas town — from raw frontier to the proud heart of Hood County.
Volume I — The Pioneers ($25.00 each)
The story of the first settlers who braved drought, danger, and isolation to carve a life from untamed land.
Volume II — The Builders (Only a few left)
A definitive history of Granbury Square — its merchants, bankers, stonemasons, lawmen, and saloon keepers. Every storefront has a story, every brick a legacy.
Volume III — Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times ($25.00 each)
The generations who followed — not the first or the richest, but those whose perseverance carried Granbury into modern times.
Together, these volumes form a lasting portrait of courage, grit, and community. Presented as a matching set, The Granbury Trilogy makes a striking and enduring addition to any Texas library or bookshelf.
War Wolves
by D. K. Barnett
The year is 1903. The Civil War ended decades ago, but for the men who fought it, the war never truly stopped.
At a soldiers’ reunion in Granbury, Texas, veterans gather under the summer canvas — gray heads, stiff backs, and haunted eyes — to remember what the years have blurred. A photographer prepares to capture the moment, and as the lens opens, each man revisits the field where his soul was broken.
War Wolves tells their stories in voices worn thin by time and loss — the chaplain who learned that mercy dies faster than faith, the blacksmith who can’t strike an anvil without hearing artillery, the boy soldier who aged fifty years in a single afternoon at Shiloh. Together, they reveal the quiet war that followed the shooting one: a lifetime of silence, guilt, and endurance.
Told in the rugged, unflinching style of D. K. Barnett, War Wolves is not a story of generals or glory but of the men who came home and found no home left in themselves.
The war is over. The fighting never stopped.
"D. K. Barnett's writing transported me to another world. A must-read for anyone seeking adventure and heart."
A Reader from Granbury, Texas