Two strong-willed men fight for success in a town of the Old West. When one of them realizes that he can't compete in business or in love, he turns to violence for revenge.

"Under mounting pressure from his displeased superiors in Washington, Evett Nix, chief Marshal of Oklahoma, launches one final desperate plan to round up the notorious Bill Doolin and his deadly gang, the Wild Bunch. Nix calls on his old friend, Frank Grimes, a former lawman turned farmer, to help find Doolin. Frank, with his impetuous and mercurial younger brother, Chad, set out undercover as farmers looking to buy some land. They find Doolin holed...

"Ryan Sage was a man born for trouble -- it pursued him as a hawk does its prey. Three times he had been forced into a kill-or-be-killed situation, and each time he had had to flee to save himself." --Cover.

Clell Hodges and Mark Lane had been hired to tame the wilderness. Engineers both, they had been brought to California's Imperial Valley to wrest an irrigation system from the grip of a fearful adversary: the Colorado River. Wayward and turbulent, the mighty Colorado held the key to survival for all settlers along the Valley, and neither Clell nor Mark was alone in recognizing what prizes there were to be had if the River could be successfully tapped....

For two years, Ross Stone had followed a lonely, twisted trail, tracking a man whose face he had never seen. The stranger had stolen his wife and child and left Stone with an empty house and a hate as big as the West. The trail Stone followed led to the raw violence of a Gold Rush town -- and straight into a killer's trap.