"In this tale set during the War for Independence, two intriguing stories emerge. One is of a black freedman, Stuart Brodie. On his return from the war, he finds his brother lynched and his tavern in the backcountry of South Carolina burnt to the ground. Knowing that the guilty party was allied with the Colonial Patriots, he joins the British Army to exact his revenge. The other story is of an abused wife, Marty, who is raped by her husband and his...

In his aimless wandering through out the Southwest, grief-stricken widower Roy Boone meets Jennifer Todd, the obvious victim of an abusive husband, and sets off an a desperate hunt for her despite the killers that follow closely.

"Orphaned Jim Burden rides the trains from Virginia to Black Hawk, Nebraska, where he will live with his paternal grandparents. Jake, a farmhand from Virginia, rides with the 10-year-old boy. On the same train, headed to the same destination, is the Shimerda family from Bohemia. Jim lives with his grandparents in the home they have built, helping as he can with chores to ease the burden on the others. The home has the dining room and kitchen downstairs,...

Smoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on a lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for what happens while he’s away from his home. An outlaw band strikes as two women are visiting at Smoke’s ranch. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead.

Master undertaker Richard Connable is called out of retirement by a group of powerful men who want him to disguise the evidence that a major financier has committed suicide, prompting his wife to look back over their sometimes troubled marriage, recalling the places they lived and the people they met in pursuit of Richard's profession.

Jay Grobart is about to pull off a train robbery, a crime necessary because of the 10-years he just spent in prison.

"McKenzie Worthington heads west as a mail-order bride with plans to return to Boston as soon as she finds and rescues her sister, Kaydie, from an abusive marriage. What she didn't count on was falling in love with her husband, a handsome, godly rancher named Zach Sawyer"--Provided by publisher.