Ed was returning to his old home in Warbonnet. Eleven years before he had been falsely accused of a crime and driven out. but now he was coming back as a U.S. Marshal. The life of a whole community was in his hands, not to speak of his own...

Trail master Ben Murdock and his outfit were riding across Texas with a herd to deliver, but when the hard-riding cowboys descended on Eden Grove, they put the little Texas town on the map in ways its people never imagined.

"Two shots from Nat Brophy's gun brought down the Hardin brothers. They died as they had lived--by bloody violence. Their young half-brother, Clem, was left alone to try to restore peace to the range they had turned into a smoking ruin. Clem saw clearly that the only way to do that was to make his own kind of war. On one side, Clem faced Val Meeker and the tough and vengeful crew the elder Hardins had hired to terrorize the nesters. On the other side...

"Jim Bannister has a $12,000 bounty on him for a murder in New Mexico. He is now in Colorado looking for information to prove his innocence. When bounty hunters target the woman her loves, he decides it's time for the hunted to become the hunter"--

Embittered after serving two years in prison, a man returns to a Kansas cowtown to collect an old debt and encounters corrupt town officials, hard times and border rivalries.