A career soldier who no longer has a career, Robert Fortune moves his family to Deadwood and finds not only his place as a railroad detective but also a fistful of enemies, all seeking vengeance against him and his family.

When a boy is killed by a breakaway rail car, Jolie Bowers'scompulsion to control is stretched to the limit. The homesteaders of western Nebraska threaten to retaliateagainst the railroad. And this is only the beginning. In the midstof teaching school, preparing for her wedding, and dealing with theviolent reaction to the railroad accident, Jolie finds herselffacing trouble from all sides. Mr. Avery shows up with legal papersdemanding a return of...

O. T. Skinner and his family have no intention of staying more than a day in the gold rush town of Goldfield, Nevada. But next to their tent is a starving family with a drunken father, and nearby an old woman insists she's sitting atop a gold mine and won't let anyone near her. And the Skinners are in the middle of a deadly feud -- after being there one day! So many in need of a helping hand and someone to share the riches of Christ, but everyone...

The hot desert winds and gold mines of Goldfield, Nevada make California's cool valley breezes and peaceful farms seem like heaven on earth. And though O. T. Skinner constantly dreams of moving west, he and his family are still in the sin-filled boomtown. They don't have much, but they do have each other. O.T. loves his strong-minded, independent wife who takes care of their family as well as the miners who depend on her warm meals and friendly nature....

In an age when robber barons and get-rich-quick schemes abound, a charismatic land developer arrives in Carson City. It doesn't take Major Lansford Fallon long to win the affections of widowed Marthellen Farnsworth -- Judith Kingston's housekeeper and dearest friend. And it takes Fallon even less time to win the financial backing of the town's leading citizens when he presents a plan to build a health sanitarium on a mineral spring outside of town....

When a wealthy woman is found battered and abandoned, her womanizing embezzler of a husband mysteriously vanishes. His sister arrives from the East to avenge his reputation, and Carson City's spunky and beloved Judith Kingston, wife of Judge Hollis A. Kingston, finds herself caught up in a hurricane of intrigue and innuendo. Will she stay safe in the eye of the storm until justice is served?