Galloway was thinking of Flagan Sackett. He knew what Flagan must do to survive because he knew what he would do, and because Flagan was his brother, in thinking as well as in blood.

"There are two things a man can never escape: his past and his destiny. For Buck Trammel, that past includes a fatal mistake that ended his career as a Pinkerton--and a deadly shootout with the Bower gang in a Wichita saloon. Call it luck or call it fate, but the famous Deputy Wyatt Earp was there to give Buck some advice: Run for your life. But Trammel's luck is about to run dry. The gang's ruthless boss, Old Man Bower, knows where Trammel lives....

Sackett had a good idea of the where abouts of buried gold across the border in Mexico but he had bad luck. Six years in a Mexican prison put fire in his heart and recklessness in his head and when he caught up with the men who betrayed him, it made no difference that he didn't have a gun.

"No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of the desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That's the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to--dazed and confused--until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last thing he remembers: He agreed to help out a friend of Duff MacCallister's. That's when everything went dark...But now Matt Jensen is alive and well and living for revenge....

Two short novels, two short stories, and two first-hand accounts of Grey's early adventures in the American West, all of which take place in picturesque and little-known regions.

He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.

"The day after depositing cash in his account, cattleman Duff MacCallister learns that bank president Joel Prescott embezzled every cent and then, guilt-ridden, committed suicide. Joel was Duff's banker but also his longtime friend. Joel's widow doesn't believe her husband was a thief or that he killed himself. Duff agrees. And after getting an appointment as a territorial marshal, he's aiming his barrel at putting every double-crossing lawman, red-handed...

Virgil Child returns his mother's coffin to White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, to bury her beside his dead father. Child can't find his father's grave and as he investigates, he discovers how his birthright was stolen by Ed Keller and his allies. He sets out to right a wrong and get what's his against all odds.

"Hearts collide when a sheriff's daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father"--

The West is wild again. American civilization as the twentieth century knew it has crumbled. In the great Southwest, a new breed or settler, white and Indians together, is creating a new way of life in the wilderness -- a pastoral economy -- with skills and savvy resurrected from the pre-industrial past. Meanwhile, in a last surviving bastion of urban life, the remnants of the power elite are girding their armed forces to reimpose the old order. This...