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Desperate for a kill, a mysterious hunting party invades a settler's landYears ago, Lee Trent did a favor for the… Cheyenne, who rewarded him by setting aside a parcel of land where no man but he could hunt, trap, or homestead. He lived quietly in the shadow of the snowcapped mountains for years--until the day that a hunting party arrived from the East and turned his peaceful world upside down.The party is led by the bloodthirsty Baron Stromberg, a European aristocrat who has come to hunt all manner of Western game. He has killed buffalo, mountain lions, moose, and deer, and all that he needs to complete his collection is a wapiti, the fabled elk of the mountains. Against his better judgment, Trent agrees to let the baron hunt. But when the shoot becomes a bloodbath, he finds himself caught between the killers from the east and the Cheyenne whom he saved long ago.
As winter bears down, a gang of settlers races for their livesCasey Storm doesn't know who the Shadow Riders are.… He only knows that they want to kill him. A dozen men in black slickers set upon Casey as soon as he reaches Montana, chasing him across the freezing plains for reasons he can only guess at. They chase him until his horse dies and keep chasing him even after he tumbles to the ground. He escapes only by chance, tripping and falling into a hidden coulee. The Shadow Riders pass on--and a winter storm descends.Thick snow falls as Casey staggers up to the covered wagon, begging for shelter. The inhabitants are also on the run from the Shadow Riders, who seem to have mistaken Casey for Stan Deveraux, the gunman who promised to lead the settlers to safety. They have six days to reach the fabled land known as Sundown--six days before their property is stolen, and they are left to die at the hands of the Shadow Riders.
On the run from a posse, a killer becomes a slaveWhen Luke Walsh hears Dee Dee Bright calling for help,… he breaks down her hotel room door. He finds the dance-hall beauty half-naked underneath a brutish man, and draws his gun without thinking. Suddenly a marshal is dead, and Luke's life isn't worth dirt. He escapes into the desert, but when his water runs dry and his horse drops dead, he prepares for the end. He collapses, only to wake in the back of a stranger's wagon. Taken captive by outlaws, he soon wishes he had not survived.As a slave working in a gold mine, Luke endures a new life of savage discipline in which the only law is death. The worst surprise comes when Dee Dee Bright arrives, flanked by her outlaw lover. The woman who ruined his life is not through with him yet, but Luke Walsh knows how to settle a score.
In a dusty, far-off way station, trouble finds a retired gunmanVirginia fell in love with Cameron Black as a young… girl. The sight of a trained killer with guns on his hips set her heart fluttering. But as the years wore on, she drifted away, unable to bear her worry for him. Years later, after Black rescues Virginia from an Indian attack, she makes him an offer: Hang up your guns and I'll be yours again. Together, they take a job running a lonely stagecoach station in the middle of the open range, hoping to find peace at last. But trouble is not far behind.An outlaw arrives, smuggling $50,000 in stolen gold. His companion is Becky Grant, a debutante on the run from her father. Thieves chase the bandit, marshals hunt Becky, and a storm closes in on the way station. Before it passes, Cameron Black will don his pistols once more.
Along a lonely stretch of desert, a bandit robs for revengeThe Chicolote stagecoach is just outside of town when a… highwayman tricks the driver into stopping. With a long-barreled hunting rifle, he forces the passengers to hand over their valuables and lifts nearly $30,000 in paper money from the coach before riding into the night. He hides his haul in a cave, keeping only a pair of diamond earrings to give to his beloved. Then he sends the sheriff a note with directions to recover the stash. For Hal Trevor does not want to steal--he simply wants to destroy the stagecoach line.Calvin Poole, the line's owner, made an enemy of Trevor by chasing his wife. When Poole hires the infamous Laredo to track down the mysterious highwayman, kindhearted Trevor becomes the one thing he never wanted to be--an outlaw.
In the Old West, Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker confront a killer potion, and a fugitive bent on paybackIn the… Wyoming Territory town of Le Four, Lobo Blacke used to be a legendary lawman, until the day an ambush left him confined to a wheelchair. Now he runs a newspaper with onetime New Yorker Booker Quinn, who also helped pen the great man's memoirs. But now Le Four is shaken by rumors that Paul Muller--a bank and train robber whom Blacke helped lock up--might be headed back to town to settle old accounts. And the same week, fourteen people suddenly drop dead after sipping Ozono, a concoction sold by a traveling medicine show. The brew's casualties include the town's sheriff, and without him, Quinn and Blacke must prepare to face the fiendish Muller, and discover the connection between the elixir and the fugitive.
The third installment in the Spectros series: In pursuit of his beloved, the master magician makes landfall on the Oregon… coast From Natchez to Denver, Mexico to Montana, Dr. Spectros has chased his nemesis, Blackschuster, across the length and breadth of North America. He nearly caught up with him in California, but the evil wizard slipped out of Spectros's grasp. The trail grows warm again in the Oregon fishing village of Bear Harbor, where Blackschuster has come in search of the silver he needs to perform his sorcery. With the help of a handsome gunslinger, a mute giant, and a skilled knife fighter, Spectros finally has a chance to destroy his enemy and rescue his beloved. But there are dark forces at work on the coast of Oregon, and Blackschuster has harnessed the powers of a beast whose very name strikes fear in the hearts of men.
To avenge his murdered friend, a young fur trapper will risk everythingAfter the Sioux attacked, Sad Sam found young Brian… McCulloch in the ruins of the wagon train, surrounded by the bodies of his slaughtered family. He took the frightened child under his wing, and for years they were inseparable--hunting, wandering, and trapping beavers for fur in the frigid Montana wilderness. While Sad Sam and Brian are returning south, their cart piled high with valuable pelts, a gang of bandits stops them, stealing the furs and leaving a bullet in Sad Sam's gut before Brian has a chance to draw the Colt in his holster.Brian vows to avenge the man who was as close to a father as he will ever have. Tracking the outlaws means a long and dangerous journey, but with nothing left to lose, Brian wagers revenge will be worth the wait.
He had arrived in America in 1887, but we first met him in 1906 when it seemed he may be… approaching the end of his story, for he has been arrested for killing the ex-governor of Idaho, a murder which led to one of the most celebrated trials of the period. The men questioning him want him to implicate Big Bill Haywood, leader of the IWW and the Western Federation of Miners. Wanting to save himself, he tells the detectives stories they want to hear. He also tells stories he wants us to hear. They are not always the same, but they are all true stories of the American West. His subsequent experiences, as he flees further west, pursued by Pinkerton detectives, provide a story of violence and class conflict found neither in the Wild West Show, nor in the dime novels. He finds himself increasingly entangled in an American West which is dangerously too real, and a fate which has led him to a cold prison cell and the threat of the gallows.
On the run from a bounty hunter, a bank robber searches for mercyBilly Gillis waits on the street as his… cousin Pearly robs the bank. Fresh out of Yuma prison, Pearly has not killed anyone since his release, but with each robbery the cousins pull, the former jailbird inches closer to murder. Young Billy thought he wanted an outlaw's life, but after a few weeks on the run with his cousin, he feels panic creeping in. At twenty years old, he is too young to die.A gun fires inside the bank, and Pearly races out--money in his hand and a dead man on the floor behind him. On the run from a murder charge, Billy and the gang ride like mad. Pursuing them is Big Jack Corrigan, a bloodthirsty bounty hunter who puts the dead in dead or alive. After his first taste of outlaw life, Billy Gillis wants to go straight. But Big Jack Corrigan might not give him the chance.
Tom Sandcrane must navigate the narrow path between his Cheyenne heritage and the white man's worldFor generations, the Sandcrane men… have served their tribe as the keepers of the Sacred Arrows. When the time comes for Seth Sandcrane to pass the responsibility on to his son Tom, he waits with pride for his son to assume his place among the elders of the tribe. But Tom wants nothing to do with Sacred Arrows, ancient traditions, and the mystical heritage of the Cheyenne. It is 1896; the nation is growing, and Tom wants a place in the white man's world.He takes a job in the Bureau of Indian Affairs as a go-between for the government and the Cheyenne. When bureaucratic treachery forces Tom to become an outlaw, he must flee the land of his birth. As America teeters on the brink of the Spanish-American War, Tom Sandcrane will learn to fight--not with sacred arrows, but with a Colt .38.
An out-of-work lawman rides into the hills in search of a runaway killerBefore he draws his gun, Tom Dyce waits… for John Bass to shoot first. He plugs the killer in the stomach but doesn't fire again. A marshal's deputy, Tom has never killed a man in cold blood . . . at least, not yet.The confrontation with Bass sours Tom on working for the marshal. Needing a change, he decides to return home to Thibido and the woman he loved long ago, Aurora Tyne. Before he leaves Rincon, the marshal offers him one last assignment: tracking a fugitive bank robber who has fled into the hills outside of Tom's hometown. Though he wants nothing to do with bounty hunting, the reward isn't the only thing that draws him to the chase. Aurora's life is in danger, and saving her may require murder.
To stop a savage war from spreading west, two brothers stare down an armyThe year is 1863. Even as the… Union Army verges on total victory over the rebellious south, there are those in the North who clamor for a negotiated truce. Along a creek in the Indian territories, north and south collide, and conflict simmers between slaveholding plantation owners and the settlers who would keep the west free. As this tension threatens to boil over into open war, hardened settler Ben McQueen goes east to plead for help from Washington. But when an assassin in Kansas City ambushes and nearly kills McQueen, his sons must try to fulfill the mission themselves.Though brothers, Jesse and Pacer Wolf McQueen have grown up in different worlds. But when a conspiracy threatens to destroy their family and tear apart the country they love so dearly, they will put aside their differences and fight. As long as these brothers stand together, the Union has a chance.
On a tortuous cattle drive, a cowboy battles weather, Comanches, and his own men The land is lush--but bare of… cattle. Colonel Tremaine never expected his ranch's grass to come in so thick, and with his health failing, the old soldier lacks the strength to assemble the kind of herd that could take advantage of nature's bounty. He reaches out to Kirby McBride, an old recruit from his army days, and begs him for a favor. Once, the colonel saved Kirby's life. Now Kirby will save his.He sends Kirby to Mexico to collect a thousand-head herd from the drought-ravaged ranch of Don Trujillo-Lopez. Drive the cattle north, fatten them on Tremaine's grass, and he and the don can split the profits. But when jealousy overwhelms the drive and some of Kirby's own men prove treacherous, death threatens the operation. As Kirby McBride drives into Devil's Canyon, a fortune hangs in the balance--and so does his life.
While searching for his cousin, a cowpuncher uncovers a dark family secretAfter a hard drive from Texas, cowhand Tracy Keyes… finds himself in Abilene, Kansas, with money to burn. A telegram waits from his mother, begging him to go to Wyoming to learn how his cousin, Joe Savage, died. Tracy buys a heavy coat, saddles up, and ventures into the frigid winter to search for truth on frozen ground. The first thing he learns is that Joe Savage was a killer, pursued by lawman and bounty hunter alike. The second is that Joe may not be dead after all.Tracking the desolate countryside for his sinister relation, Tracy finds that everyone in Wyoming had a reason to hate Joe Savage. As he gets closer to unraveling the mystery of his vanished cousin, Tracy knows that he and Joe will be reunited soon--dead or alive.
For the sake of cheated settlers, Sheriff Pat Stevens takes on a Powder Valley conman On a weather-beaten stretch of… the Kansas prairie, a family fights to survive. Molly Hartsell is only twenty-seven, but years of barely scraping by have made her old before her time. Her children are frail, tired, and hungry. If something doesn't change soon, the Hartsells are doomed. But Molly's husband returns from the bank with good news: He sold the farm and invested every penny in property far away in Colorado's lush Powder Valley. It's a new start for the Hartsells, but it turns out their troubles are just beginning. When the Hartsells arrive in Powder Valley and discover they were sold a bill of false goods, it seems as if the family is ruined. But Sherriff Pat Stevens--with the help of his loyal friends Sam and Ezra--will fight tooth and nail to defeat the crooked swindlers and make sure everyone in town can call Powder Valley their home.
A natural tracker does all he can to help a woman escape the Dakota TerritoryWhen the harsh winters of the… Black Hills snuffed out his father’s life, Miles Donovan was left with no inheritance but knowledge of every trail, creek, and ridge in the Dakota territories. He put his scouting instincts to work for the US cavalry, helping them chase Sioux raiding parties across terrain where few white men dared to tread. It was in that unforgiving country that he learned to hate Tom DeFord, a savage gunman whom Miles once saw kill a Blackfoot woman in cold blood.His scouting days behind him, Miles is cooling his heels in Deadwood when the beautiful Della Adair hires him to escort her out of town, and across the dangerous Dakota plains. When Tom DeFord comes after Della and her gold, Miles will make a stand, turning his guns against the deadliest killer the Dakota Territories have ever known.
To avenge his beloved, an old tracker comes out of retirement After years fighting the Apache for the United States… Army, Carroll Cougar builds a cabin in the heart of the Texas prairie. When a local rancher tries to take it away from him, Cougar takes a stand, waiting in the trees when the rancher and his son come to attack. With a few shots from his .56 Spencer, he defends his property, believing that peace is his at last. But another disturbance soon follows, from a completely unexpected source. An old army buddy reaches Cougar with a letter from President Grant begging the tracker to join up for one last mission. It isn't the president's name that convinces him--it's the name of the target: Solon Reineke, the gunman who murdered the only woman Cougar ever loved. For the sake of vengeance, he will pick up the trail one last time, even if it means never knowing peace again.
After two years in jail, a cowboy searches for his sweetheartIt's bold for a cowhand to woo his boss's daughter,… but John Tanner can't help loving Becky Canasta. Their courtship is upended by Matt Doyle, a spurned admirer who considers Becky to be his property--and is willing to kill to keep it that way. He is about to have his revenge when Becky draws a small pistol and shoots him through the heart. To save her from the gallows, John takes the blame. He receives only two years in prison for his gallantry. Once freed, he returns to the ranch to see if he still holds Becky's favor, but the place is ransacked--and Becky is nowhere to be found. Desperate to save the woman for whom he sacrificed his freedom, John sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers, who are on the trail of a legendary treasure. He must find it first if he ever wants to see Becky alive again.
When a banker's daughter is kidnapped, it takes an evil deed to get her backTwo horsemen appear on the eastern… edge of Crater, a dusty Western town as dry and barren as the sinkhole that gave it its name. The riders disappear around the back of the bank, where they find an unlocked door--and a flour sack stuffed with cash. The ransom was embezzled by the banker himself, who is ready to risk jail, to throw away his reputation, to give his life if it means getting his daughter Anita back alive. But the money won't be enough. These kidnappers are out for blood.The banker told no one about the kidnapping, but Deputy Marshal Bill Thatcher--who loves Anita no less than her father does--quickly notices the girl's disappearance. As the kidnapper's demands increase, Thatcher must prove his love with violence. In a town like Crater, love is no match for a quick-drawn gun.