Captain Jed Foster is more than a thief. He's a traitor. With a handful of murderous rogues, he's run off with four wagons containing new Springfield rifles, bayonets, and ammunition meant to resupply the troops at Fort Bowie in Arizona Territory. Foster plans to sell the weapons to the highest bidderwhether it's Apaches, Mexican revolutionaries, or Confederate veterans who still dream of destroying the Union. But that's the least of Foster's problems...

A son sets out to make things right and avenge his father's death in this dark Western noir. Ethan Wilder has been off in the mountains hunting for the last several months. Upon his return to the family Bar Five Ranch, Wilder finds his life in chaos. His brother, Ben, after taking his father's rifle without permission, has locked his father in the outhouse to avoid punishment. Another brother, Vic, is in jail, accused of beating up a girl in town,...

"Four years ago, three men held up a train and made of with thirty thousand dollars in gold. Captured, they refused to trade the gold for lighter sentences. Now the leader, Denson Boyd, has been released, and it's up to ex-railroad detective Marc Charvein to follow him to the treasure. But when Boyd ambushes him and kills his horse, Charvein is stranded in the desert. He stumbles into Lodestar, a mining town abandoned by all but a hermit. But Lodestar...

One stormy night in Devil's Drum country, Texas, a freight train is halted by a landslide. Two teamsters with fake orders from one of the railroad's top officials ride up, requesting twenty cases of preserves from the startled crew - but are waylaid and murdered on their way into town. So begins one of the most mystifying jobs that detective Gregory Quist has ever taken on; and murder is committed again before he learns what was in the cans innocently...

They called Brice Corrigan "Mule Man" because of the animal he rode, but they might as well have called him that because of his disposition, for he was surely as stubborn as his beast. Hell, half of why he signed on to this godforsaken crew was because the lady who hired him suggested that he didn't have the guts to do the job. And an odd job it was. A crew of ten, led by an anthropologist, was going into Arizona's Chaco Canyon to dig for relics of...

The MacCallister clan was raised on a harsh, unforgiving frontier, where courage and blood bonds mattered the most. While Falcon MacCallister followed his father's mountain man legacy, his brother and sister made their fame and fortune on the stages of New York and Europe. Now they're planning a family reunion. Andrew and Rosanna MacCallister are headed to Colorado to visit their kin - until they step into the crosshairs of a murderer's plan.

Careful What You Bet In Salt Springs, on the Fourth of July, a young man took a bet--and ended up broken, battered and fighting for his life. . .But Billy Piper didn't die. He just came back to haunt Salt Springs--with all the book learning he did during his convalescence, with all the love he had for a whore, with all the friendship he shared with an old cowboy who couldn't help see the difference between right and wrong. . . In this extraordinary...

"Ethan Kerry, blinded by a wild horse, continues to run his growing Texas ranch--with the help of his two brothers, Cole and Luther, and his strong wife, Claire. Notorious outlaw Glory Van Camp, posing as a fake Uvalde minister, and his brother, appearing to be a town bum, have their sights set on taking control of the massive Bar K. They are joined by their evil stepfather, Heredith Tiorgs, and stepsister, Jinette Six, and recruited gunmen. Their...

Former gunfighter Tom Patterson and his wife Betty are drawn into a scheme of assassination and avarice in 1880s California and must pit their skills, wits, and courage against a malignant enemy.

In "Dead Man's Gold, " Ken Gregory comes upon a lynching and is able to disperse the mob. Sam Petnell, whom the mob had unjustly accused of horse stealing, tells Ken he knows the location of a buried cache of gold on the Box-T ranch. Then Sam is murdered on the trail... In the title story, Ray Donovan, adopted as a child and raised by Aunt Kate Donovan on the Box D Ranch, returns to do a favor for his cousin and becomes embroiled in a bitter right-of-way...