After the death of his wife and daughter, Samuel Tucker has wandered from Texas to Oregon's Rogue River region in a drunken, sorrowful haze. When he observes an assassination, he takes the dead man's pistol to the next town, where he learns his identity--and becomes a suspect in the shooting. Payton Farraday was a well-liked local rancher and the second Farraday to be shot to death in the last two years. Only Emma, his niece, believes Samuel is innocent;...

Rancher Ty Farraday's hunt for stray cattle takes a turn for the worse when he discovers a shallow grave and the body of wealthy Alton Winstead, the owner of the Double Cross Ranch. Ty's first frantic thoughts are of Winstead's widow, Sue-Ellen, who picked Alton over him. Unfortunately, she chose poorly. Alton masterminded a crime and left his helpers to swing for it. Hungry for revenge, the murderous hard cases have overrun the Double Cross and are...

"Life at the Barr-McGee ranch has settled into a pleasant lull of work and rest for members of The Outfit. Life should be good . . . but big Rafe Barr stews about his wife and son's murderer, and leaves to search for resolution, revenge, reckoning. Meanwhile, Black Jack Smith attends a high-stakes poker tournament in Santa Fe, where he encounters southern gambler Colonel Rufus Turlington the Second, and his powerful covert Brotherhood of the Phoenix....

"Rafe Barr, master tracker, spy, and war hero, is locked away in Yuma Territorial Prison for life, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and son. But five years into his sentence, Warden Talbot Timmons, who has made Barr's time at Yuma a living hell, offers him a deal: full pardon in exchange for the return (alive) of the young daughter of California's Governor Pendleton from a life of drug addiction and prostitution by Deadwood's top bad man,...

"Young dandy Fletcher Ralston's privileged life of education and ease in the East comes to an abrupt end when he's summoned to the dried-up Wyoming town of Promise to inherit a run-down bordello and a lifetime of debts. The old woman he's known only via correspondence as his "aunt" is in truth the madam of the brothel. After their meeting, she is found with her throat slit, and Fletcher is suspect number one. But the old lady's paramour, crusty Gunnar...

On his way to visit his old mentor, Maple Jack, Roamer makes a brief supply stop in the raw, flyblown town of Forsaken, Wyoming. There he encounters a man from his past, who possesses the deed to a valuable ranch. The type of property people kill for. Roamer begrudgingly agrees to escort the young man and a shifty gold digger of a woman deep into the Bitterroot Mountains in search of the mysterious ranch. Fearing Roamer has met with disaster, Maple...

"Rafe Barr, master tracker, spy, and war hero, is locked away in Yuma Territorial Prison for life, wrongly convicted of the murder of his wife and son. But five years into his sentence, Warden Talbot Timmons, who has made Barr's time at Yuma a living hell, offers him a deal: full pardon in exchange for the return (alive) of the young daughter of California's Governor Pendleton from a life of drug addiction and prostitution by Deadwood's top bad man,...

Roamer is having a bad day--he is savaged by a grizzly, robbed by bandits, and attacked by wolves. So by the time he makes it to the little Rocky Mountain town of Tall Pine all he wants is a cup of coffee, a hot meal, and a soft bed. The sheriff jails him for murder instead. A seething mob marks Roamer's homely face as guilty and seeks twisted justice with his blood. Can he stop the townsfolk from destroying themselves or will they kill him first?...

Big Charlie Chilton knows better, but when a loudmouth threatens to expose his secrets he teaches him a lesson. It turns out the man was about to make an important supply run for the town's marshal, who drafts Charlie instead. The ragtag drunkards running the freighting outfit make the treacherous trek north worse. When bad blood springs up between them, Charlie is left for dead on the side of the mountain. But they should have made sure he was really...