Bowers Wayne Sinclair was more dead than alive when he came home to Sunset, New Mexico, after the Civil War. And now, he wanted to forget the hellish time he'd spent at the Andersonville prison camp. He wanted to marry the girl he had left behind ...
When more than one hundred Chinese laborers disappear, U.S. Deputy Marshall Reese Corbett's investigation is impeded by a serious language barrier, as well as by the isolated, well-guarded hills of Snake Canyon...
Unforgiving Stover Gates, who holds a grudge against the Danmyer family, detests his daughter's choice of a Danmyer man as a husband, but when a swarm of locusts devastates crops all over Kansas, the natural disaster brings out the best in some peopl...
Spenser Whitlock knows the ins and outs of blacksmithing. As for his rather honorary title of Deputy Marshal, he had seldom been called upon to keep the peace or arrest anyone in Sundown. When a killer embarks upon a murder spree, he is frantic to di...
Death seems to follow Tito Pacheco. First, he'd been forced to shoot Saul Puggot when a crooked game of two-bit poker went from bad to worse. Then he found a dead body out on the trail. Now Saul's brother Baxter has sent a pack of bounty hunters afte...
Paul Warrick had lived through the worst nightmare man could imagine. Now a shootout at a casino lands him in jail and his life takes another turn. With the valley on the verge of a range war, Paul's actions might be the fire to light the fuse. Howev...
Joe Bratt grew up like an unbroken mustang, and trouble has never bothered to move out of his way. He has had to claw and scratch through a life of hard knocks and daily struggles. Fortunately, these trials have taught him three things: fight when yo...
It sounded like an accident. Sandy Wakefield, Flint's uncle, had died in a mining mishap. A short fuse or a mistake was the cause, according to both the town marshal and the mine owner. However, after Flint and Johnny Wakefield pay their respects, th...
Dace Kelly is three years into an eight-year sentence at the Canyon City penitentiary when the warden offers a deal to get him released. The catch: he must help the warden's sister save her ranch outside Tolerance, Colorado. He and Professor (a wanna...
When a simple job turns out to be a death ride for Lucas, he's rescued by Daniel Books, a half-Cheyenne, and Lucas's life is changed forever... In the midst of an impending Indian war, Daniel helps Lucas to find the men who'd robbed and shot him, lea...
Amy Cole wants to do more than write a story: she wants to live one. Her chance comes when one of her fans writes, pleading for help in clearing a doctor of murder charges. Investigating the crime means entering the fortress called Little Babylon, a ...
Cullen Durant viewed the position of handyman at the Melbourne ranch as a break from his old job, a chance to taste some of the easy life. The only major problem was dealing with the two women on the ranch, until bizarre things started to happen. A r...
Keith Konniger enjoys his quiet, solitary life as a hunter. But when he rescues a woman and a child his world is turned upside down and then twisted a little bit more. Little could he know that his good deed would most certainly not go unpunished, as...
"I am Nemesis. And it's time to pay for your sins…" One by one, they are found…brutally strangled with a quarter jammed between their lips. They are very different men with seemingly nothing in common -- until newbie reporter Kari Underwood fo...
To keep from serving jail time, Vince Templeton agrees to take on a false identity and go to Surlock, Wyoming. Once there he is to work as a teamster for Charles Huxton and try to prevent a war that is brewing between Huxton's Transport and the Yates...
Latigo Dykes, known as the Gentleman Bandit, never robbed a lady and always left a man enough to get by. With a dogged deputy U.S. marshal on his trail, Latigo knows his days are numbered. He has only one wish before he ends up dead or in prison: to ...
When a crazed outlaw named Chilly Lloyd instigates a heinous crime, it seals the fate of seven other men. Now two friends, Brett Jackson and Reggie Satterfield, put aside their journey to a peaceful life and set out to bring the killers to justice. S...
Kari Underwood, an investigative reporter, becomes involved in a curious double murder which puts her in a killer’s crosshairs. With Kari’s life in danger, Jason Keane leaves his position in the Sutton CID and returns to America to protect her. K...
Not by choice but from necessity, Random Chance has always managed to survive by living a little outside the law. Now he’s not so sure about the survival part. While ￿eeing a marshal whose brother he killed in self-defense, he comes across a youn...
Phoenix Cline had seen the error of his ways and wanted to do something worthwhile with his life. Helping a few indentured Chinese didn't seem like a bad start. But making dangerous enemies by opposing them, or leaving dead bodies behind, is not ...
As Brian DeClay rode to Twin Forks, he was determined to kill Sid Locklin, the man responsible for his father's death eight years before. Henry DeClay and Sid had been partners in a freight line -- till the very day Sid shot him. Brian was only a kid...
Orion Culhane had always earned his way with a gun. But the time he worked as a stagecoach guard and shot five bandits in one day, he'd finally had enough. He never wanted to shoot at anyone -- or be shot at -- again. So when he got the chance to wor...
When the man known as Dakota ï¬rst rode across the Kilmire range, he was only passing through Montana, heading for Washington State. But the Kilmire brothers didn't believe him. They thought he was spying on their illegal activities. So the head of ...
Lane McCord was still a die-hard Reb ten years after the Civil War. But when Kimberly Torrey, a beautiful Yankee lady in distress, crossed his path, he was willing to do anything for her. With the help of his Cheyenne friend, Little Smoke, McCord agr...
Matt Scoï¬eld tried real hard to stay out of other people’s squabbles. He’d had enough ï¬ghting in the War Between the States and later in Mexico. As he rode toward his hometown, all he wanted was peace. So now, as he neared Liberty, Kansas, he...
When Dave Runyan set out to deliver a wagonload of barbed wire to a farmer in Wayward, Wyoming, he knew there might be trouble. After all, some of the ranchers referred to barbed wire as "the devil's rope" and they might try to keep the stuff far awa...
When Dr. Eliot Bouldeen runs into mountain man Big Badd Bartley in the Arizona desert, it has already been an eventful day. The young woman whose life he has just saved lies unconscious on the sand, and Eliot can still hear the gunshots ringing in hi...
Above all else the Lucane family wanted law and order, justice and peace -- even if it took a Colt Peacemaker to get their point across. It was justice that had sent Levi Lucane hunting for the bloodthirsty Danton gang after they'd killed his olde...
Tybalt Kolher, who helped plan new routes for a stagecoach company, spent a lot of time out on the trail. But in all his years of riding, he had never met anyone as green and clumsy―or as feisty―as the Fighting McBride. What McBride didn’t know...
Lagg Durant is a peaceable rancher with no real enemies. But after killing vicious Guns Quinton in self-defense, he’s forced to ï¬,ee across the snow-covered San Juan Mountains or face Quinton’s vengeful family -- and more killing. Then when he m...
Bounty hunting had never appealed to Tray Dackett. Every day he got sicker of it. That was the only reason he agreed to work for Rhonda Boyd, who wanted him to take her and three men to Apache Canyon where some French gold was reputedly hidden. Le...
Dr. Dean Chance was running away from his old life when his trail crossed Flintlock. But he tried to hang on to his old belief that there was no excuse -- none -- for killing another man. Things got all mixed up, though, when Chance befriended Go...
When Kit Montgomery happens upon the bodies of six Owatawna Indians, he knows that there will be war -- and that he will be in the middle. As an Army negotiator, he has had three years of peaceful dealings with the Owatawna chief, Iron Claw, and the ...
Tazz Cantrelle -- known for his way with a gun -- had been sent to Yuma Prison for standing up to a crooked lawman. Every day spent there with dangerous killers and vicious guards was like a century in hell. So when Tazz was given the chance to leave...
Technically, there is a name for what Orem Clancy is doing: breaking the law. When he decides to help the slave Togg Jackson escape from his brutal master, Baldwin Colensworth, Orem knows the move will not make him popular. Tensions are running high ...
Reputed throughout the West to be half man, half gun, Rawlin Lassito was a legend in his own time. Books had been written about his vendetta against the Quantrill Raiders who had slaughtered his loved ones and left him for dead in the carnage at Lawr...
Mac Avery, the man known as Banker, had no special business in the town of Mona. He was just riding through. But he didn’t like what he saw there. One man, Justin Carstairs, had the whole town in his hand. He ran most of the businesses, allowed ...
It was wrong, no doubt about it, and Johnny Dystra knew it. But he had to go through with the plan anyway. Yes, Johnny and his partner, Rusty, would have to put on masks like a couple of outlaws and kidnap an idealistic young girl on her wedding d...
Lou Travis, an ex-Yankee captain, does not expect a warm welcome from any Texan right after the War Between the States. But he must go to Clearwater, Texas, for he has promised Will Mallory, a dying Confederate soldier, to take some money to his wife...
Everyone in Big Iron knew how vicious Gabe Hawks could get when he was drunk. But Gabe was the son of a powerful rancher, and when Marcy Clayborne accidentally killed him in self-defense, the powerful Fallen Skull Ranch and the town wanted to hang he...
Luke Yancy apprenticed to a gun-smith when he was just a boy. At fifteen, he fought in the Civil War, and later he became one of the youngest U.S. deputy marshals ever. Now, still in his twenties, Luke is ready to lay down his gun. Then he receives a...
Back in El Paso no one ever accused ex-cavalryman Troy Banner of being overly heroic or steadfast or even friendly. He was just known for his good aim and his bad temper, and most smart men steered clear of him. But Lance Kinnion had once saved Troyâ...
The Civil War ended months ago, but in Lost Springs, Missouri, the fighting rages on. The town is run by Austin Urbank, an embittered Northern veteran who lost a leg -- and his soul -- in battle. Under Austin’s guidance, the Southerners of Lost Spr...
Guy Kolter was probably one of the best detectives in Denver. So when he was hired by someone to find the killer of Zack Lorring, an old miner, he was fairly sure he could do the job. But Guy hadn't counted on meeting up with Milo Gates, one of th...
Spence Kane was a consistent lawyer. He'd handled ï¬fteen court cases and lost every one of them because all of his clients were guilty. Then out of the blue a Denver judge appointed him to look into the conditions at an institution for the insane n...
When Dave Bryant rides back to Scoï¬eld, Montana, so many years have passed that no one recognizes him. This is just as he wants it. His parents have been in the ground for twelve years, and Dave’s revenge has been slow in coming. But ï¬nally all...
The Haxel family don't like the Nodeans and it's become a one-sided feud that Wint and Raven Nodean can't win. At least, it was a stacked deck until Paul Courtney happened along. He is a gun salesman, one who knows more about guns than just about sel...
The death of a beautiful young woman involves Luke Monteen in a bizarre mystery. Count Balducci controls the town of Gold Butte. His doctor controls the parlor girls, and his hired guns control everything else. It's a grip of power that hides a terri...
They came out of the blackness of night, wailing like messengers of death, extracting life from the ex-vigilantes of Flintlock, Montana. Their death list had eight names on it, and only their own deaths can prevent them from killing those men. Clay M...
Delryan was a wandering gambler when he stumbled upon the white girl called Capricho. Dressed like an Indian, she was forced to fight the toughest women in town for sport. Her manager, Faro, loved to gamble and lost the girl to Delryan in a card game...
It seemed a simple, straight forward mission for Yancy Nodean: clean up Pine Junction. People were going broke in droves unable to pay the heavy taxes levied by the town mayor. Enforcing and collecting those taxes were a quick-gun marshal and several...
There are rumors whispered about the wealthy mine owner and self-proclaimed king of Gold Vista. It's said my some that he invites women â€" both single and married â€" to his house, for his personal pleasure. Along with payoffs, covert meetings and s...
Taw Spenser was doing his job as a deputy sheriff when he was first smitten by the young lady, Colena Hawthorn. She robbed of his horse and clothing! Tracking her down ended when he got into a blazing gunfight with four bandits. Fate decided to lend ...
He awoke injured, without a past. Given the name of Sundown by an aged hermit, he had two clues to his life's history â€" a list of men's names and the town of Cedar Flats. But before Sundown can attempt to search for his identity, he is drawn into a...
After being paid off for delivering horses to the army, Del Gannon and his partner, Johnny Concho, stop off in Yuma. Del aims to quit the tough business of bronc busting and buy an orange farm in California. Johnny holds the money while Del gets clea...
Kari Underwood, an investigative reporter, writes an expose' about fraud, but quickly finds her prospective respondent has died. The police write it off as an accidental death until a second victim dies in similar fashion. Is this related to her stor...
After a bizarre double killing forces her into exile, Rowena Jansen is living like a hermit in Keylock, Colorado, and concentrating only on survival. Travis Clay went off to war and witnessed the terrible suffering of men and his country. Afterwards,...
After the Civil War, three Valeron brothers brought their families to an untamed wilderness at the Colorado-Wyoming border. Fifteen years later, they had carved out an empire, complete with cattle, mining, a mill, and the nearby town named after them...
Deeton and Hunter Kenny half-brothers, as honest and hardworking as any of their neighbors near Halcyon, Colorado. But because of their Cheyenne blood, they were shunned and harassed by almost everyone. Then, as winter approached, the rustless Badlan...
The new job in California sounded laid-back and peaceful to Mace Banyon, ex-deputy U.S. Marshal. He had been hired by an eastern land corporation to supervise and collect payments from tenant farmers. But the sharecroppers â€" honest, hard-working Ch...
Boone Lucane wasn't the fastest gun in the family, but no one could match him when it came to tracking or hunting. That's why he is chosen to rescue his eight-year-old cousin, Eric, when he's kidnapped. Even pairing up with Race Lucane â€" whose gun ...
Mac Avery had tamed the town of Dry Wells, Wyoming some time back. Yet, though he still owned the bank there, he was living a new life in the small town of Mona, in a neighboring state. Life had been good ... and peaceful in Dry Wells, until a small ...
Dayton Garrett is something of a trouble-shooter, often taking on hard or dangerous jobs. His brother offers to help with his most recent problem, but the aid comes at a price. Soon, a simple child recovery escalates and ends up angering the family w...
The Valeron code was simple: Trust in the Lord, but keep a gun handy. And when it came to harming one of them or their family, they had but one commandment: Thou shalt not get away with it! Rodney (Lightning Rod) Mason had a habit of getting involved...
Branded! That's what the McCains were. After the womanizing father of five boys kills an upstanding citizen, the people of Rio Blanco not only hang him, but they condemn the offspring as well. Then Trace McCain saves Melanie Kendall, the niece of the...
When Evangeline Parrish learns that her brother Nelson has emptied a Wells, Fargo safe and gone on the run, she hires Ransom Fayne, a renowned bounty hunter, to bring him back before he ruins his life. But the rescue attempt is thwarted by a deadly a...
With a U.S. Marshal on his back trail, Marc Kannon crosses the border into Mexico, where his brother is serving under General Basada. He hopes the French â€" Mexican conflict will be a place to hide for a few months. Marc is sorely disillusioned to d...
Nash Valeron didn't expect starting up his doctor's practice would be so lively. But when a young woman arrives, his life is basically turned upside down and inside out. What begins as protecting the girl from a couple bullies becomes a life or death...
The rubber boom brought untold millions of dollars flowing into South America. People flooded from all over the world to cash in and get rich on the black gold. Yet, when greed is unleashed, humanity suffers â€" and often it is the lowest class of pe...
For Dave Brenteen, it was like standing between the branding iron and the fire. A killer was running loose, a man deemed the Night Prowler, had attacked four unsuspecting women and had murdered his lifelong friend. On the flip side, after killing Hyd...
Some men operate beyond the law's reach. Such were the Macreedys. They sold whiskey to the Indians across the Canadian border, then cashed in their loot (including the selling of Indian women and children) and returned to their horse ranch outside of...
How hard could it be? Morgan Royce and his younger brother only have to bring back a banker's runaway wife and collect the five-hundred dollar bounty. But something else is going on. And their prey is neither predicable nor rational. Her escape route...
Not all criminals wear masks and carry guns. Some hide behind respectability and seldom wield a weapon. The Valerons seek justice for an attack and theft, but they find no smoking gun, no gunmen, not a single piece of evidence against the perpetrator...
It sounded simple enough - Wyatt Valeron is hired to escort a man from Paradise to Denver Colorado. However, upon arrival at the secluded mining town, he learns a sinister tyrant named Gaskell controls everyone and everything. His hired 'enforcers' m...
Sketcher, as ramrod over the Valeron cattle, takes Reese Valeron's place on a trip to the yearly auction in Chicago with Shane and Jared Valeron. A simple sketch becomes the impetus that quickly involves Sketcher with several street urchins, a pe...
Dustin Faraday was a man who did his duty; he killed his fellow countrymen to help make all men free. Other men, like Walt Kruger relished the number of men he killed, along with his well-earned title of One-shot. With the end of the war, each man to...
Some things grab a man's attention . . . like being shot at! Jared Valeron learns that an unknown gunman has tarnished the Valeron reputation by killing a man while impersonating Cousin Wyatt Valeron. In trying to track down the culprit, Jared is...
Snowstorms have paralysed the stage and freight companies, and Castle Point is desperate for supplies. Doctor Nash Valeron wires his brother Jared, who loads up pack horses and mules with medicine and food to bring to the stricken settlement. But Cas...
It didn't sound dangerous: Lou Ryderson's mission was to get proof that an Indian agent was cheating the Indians out of their government-issue supplies at the Wind River Reservation. But Lou runs into trouble when Running Elk's bride-to-be, Kim, is k...
Doug Wyler has a stubborn streak a mile wide -- more guts than brains, some folks might say. He'll take on a man twice his size for a cause he believes in. But this time, even Doug has his doubts. For the enemy is Gunstock Prison, and the cause is...
The war between the Union and the Confederacy has ended, but the fight is not over for the Kenyon family. Being Yankees, their presence in Three Forks, Texas, is met with hostility and resentment. Dave Kenyon defies the odds and tries to court a loca...
All Vance has to do is process 100 or so Indians for transfer to a reservation. But an outbreak of smallpox thwarts his plans and he finds himself the target of settlers angry at his defence of the Indians and on the trail of a murderer who must be c...
The term blood money was never more appropriate than when applied to the lowly vermin who sold rifles to the Indians. Clay Valenteen's job is to make sure a shipment of stolen rifles doesn't end up in the hands of a band of renegade Apaches. However,...