Hunter Stone of the North-West Mounted Police and Reena O'Donnell, a missionary among the Blackfoot Nation, fight a common enemy, the whiskey trade, and are confronted with the very heart of evil down a trail of high suspense.--

In 1903 Mary Boulton flees alone across the West, one heart-pounding step ahead of the law. At 19, she has just become a widow---and her husband's killer. As bloodhounds track her frantic race toward the mountains, she is tormented by mad visions and by the knowledge that her two ruthless brothers-in-law are in pursuit, determined to avenge their younger brother's death. Responding to little more than the primitive instinct for survival at any cost,...

Hunter Stone is seriously wounded in an attempt to rescue his wife from a band of Crow Indians led by Red Wolf.

No one in the town of Calder Springs was prepared for the news of the mill closing. John and Julia Harrigan and their two daughters had lived a quiet, prosperous life in Calder Springs, and now their dreams for their family seem to be crumbling around them. Though Julia is an unlikely candidate to lead an effort to change the grim reality facing the town, she forges ahead to find a way to save the town and the home she loves.

1867. Winter has just tightened its grip on Dove River, an isolated settlement in Canada's Northern Territory, when a man is brutally murdered. A local woman, Mrs. Ross, stumbles upon the crime scene and sees tracks leading from the dead man's cabin north toward the forest and the tundra beyond. But soon she makes another discovery: her son has disappeared and is now considered a prime suspect. A variety of outsiders are drawn to the crime and to...