When he loses at the tables on the Delta Jack riverboat, professional gambler Abner Mason has one night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt to the most powerful man on the ship--if only he can stay alive long enough to do so.

After ten years of wandering, during which he has lived the life of a gambler and learned the ways of devious men, Tom Keene returns home, only to find his father alone and dying. Old John Keene's sole legacy to his son is a Bible. With his father's passing, Tom Keene renounces his selfish, worthless past and sets out to try to teach others that the greatest happiness is born of trust in one another. Tom even gets a chance to demonstrate his new way...

In 1849, Zeb's parents ship him off to St. Louis to become an apprentice tanner, but the naive twelve-year-old rebels, casts his lot with a cheating riverboat gambler, while a slave and an Indian medicine man try to get Zeb back on the right path.

Territory of New Mexico, 1875. Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy needs money to complete the new cathedral he's building in Santa Fe. he comes to see Father Clement Grantaire, pastor of a small parish near the Texas border, for help. Father Grantaire has a checkered past, but he also has an idea: he can use his less-than-priestly skills to obtain money for the cathedral. After a night of gambling, Grantaire wins over a thousand dollars from a group of...

After getting cleaned out by a bad hand at cards, Skye Fargo is desperate for cash. When he rides into Tucson looking for work, he soon finds out that there's more than money at stake. The dreaded Bearcat Lutz rules the town with a bloody fist, forcing innocent prisoners to work as slaves and destroying everyone who dares to stand up to him. But the Trailsman is going to do more than just stand up to Lutz--he's going to take him down."--P. [4] of...