"Ken Ballard was a homeless drifter when Brad Moran picked him up, trained him, and got him a job as a freighter, but by the time Ballard realized what was really going on, he had a posse on his trail"--

"A shocking tale of violence and vengeance as Cole Bonner, whose entire family had been killed by outlaws, rescues a woman from the men who murdered her husband and abducted her. But to bring the widow to safety, he will have to face his own demons. Return to his old homestead, and relive the violence-and the vengeance-of another massacre at Crow Creek Crossing"--Provided by publisher.

"Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about--and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a majestic Victorian house on the Maine coast, which the will stipulates she must live in it for at least three years. Her engagement recently broken, she sets off to find out why the boys were separated at birth-and why it was all kept secret...

"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jailmates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time-on a brutal prison chain gang . Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic renegades....

"From the moment the wounded boy in the wagon interrupts his swearing-in, Deputy Mark Simms, in line to be the third Sheriff Simms of Summit County, devotes his life to pursuing cattle rustlers turned butchers who become murderous meatpackers in the early twentieth century. Eighteen today, the deputy grows as a determined lawman. Tom Hixson, the hired hand who shot the boy, grows as the meatpackers muscle. The close of World War I ends the monopoly,...

"Chase tanner is a peaceful man - until enemies target his woman and friends. They soon learn how tough a peace-loving man can be. Branded a coward and Indian lover for trying to stop some of the slaughter of peaceful Cheyennes and Arapahos at Sand Creek, Chase Tanner must live with his "shame." But he refuses to run, though several members of the Colorado militia keep dogging him with lies, even years after the event. When he falls in love with a...

"Two short western novels that balance action and character as lawmen do their best to uphold the law in their communities"--

"Prospector Will Grayson rides into Blue Lake Ridge planning to exchange his gold for money to send to his family to save their ranch from foreclosure, but is framed for a bank robbery. Surviving his injuries with the help of an old hermit, he must devise a plan to retrieve his money and clear his name"--

"As marshal and sheriff of four different hell-on-wheels boom towns during the past seven years, Merritt Kane had often thought of settling on a small ranch in Broken Bow. He's about to realize his dream, but news that the railroad is coming is changing the town and someone wants Kane dead"--

"In "The White Streak," twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fianc©♭e, who wants to marry. When his father signs over the old family homestead to him that is in serious need of repair,...