Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.

"All Dakota heard the song of the gun when two range giants declared war on each other. There was Carse Boling, who ruled the Coffin spread with his fists and his streaking gun hand. There was Sam Jedrow, who rode Coffin out of a past that no man dared to question. They met and they fought, these two savage sons of trouble, over a ranch and a woman that didn't belong to either of them"--

Two novels by masterful storyteller Lauran Paine. In Odd Partnership, gunfighter Lewis Morgan, sheltering from a snowstorm, overhears two assassins plotting to shoot a U.S. Marshall. The Marshall's reaction to this news presents a mystery, since he doesn't react with any alarm. Gunman's Moon opens with gunman Ralph Bolley being killed by a shotgun blast at the Rocking W Ranch. The arrest of the widowed owner of the ranch, and the trial that follows,...

Emmet Honeycut, a sniper during the Civil War, shoots a girl about to burn to death in a hotel fire. Although acquitted of murder, he becomes a pariah in town, but is reprieved by a telegram from Major Kingston, his former commander. Kingston's niece, Faith, has been abducted and he offers Emmet money to join his rescue party, which includes six other skilled men, and a beautiful woman whom Emmet comes to love. Enrique Salazar and Yago Garza are merciless...

When Scott Colton rides into the honky-tonk town of Meridian, the last thing he wants is another fight: Years of bounty hunting weigh on his conscience. This time, however, the fight comes to him. When he sees Brother Sam Prentiss and his lovely daughter being harassed by the malevolent Land Talbot, something inside him snaps. Word spreads through the town like wildfire that someone has challenged Talbot and lived to tell about it. Scott becomes and...

"Months have passed since five ruthless men killed Lone McGantry's partner and stole the horses from their ranch. Now, finally free of obligations that have kept him from taking up pursuit sooner, Lone has set out on a cold trail to track down the killers and make them pay. He'd prefer revenge, he'll settle for justice . . . But the trail is not only cold, it is twisty and marked by dangers at every turn, even apart from the quarry he is after. Lone...

Arriving in the lawless town of Defiance, professional bounty hunter Jace Gage is determined to clean up this corrupt town and must convince Leah Morgan, the town's most lawful citizen, to help him.

"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...

"Brett Fasken came out of the cedar brakes and got his first look in six years at those dun and red bluffs stacked like double cardboard behind Packer's Crossing. So Brett returned home -- only to find himself pitted against his own sister in a blazing battle for control of a cattle empire. Josephine Fasken was no ordinary girl. She was tough, hard-talking, and universally feared. She was teamed up with a gun-slinging bully called Red and a foreman...

Boyd Reynolds rode into town after three years of wandering, happy at the thought of seeing his ranch again-and Ellen Petrie. But the town had changed. Fear gripped his former friends and neighbors, for Jud Laws and his hired killers had taken over. Anyone baulked was either killed or run out of town. Laws' had even taken Boyd's woman. It was a bitter homecoming. Gone were his ranch and his woman-and maybe his right to live-unless he could gather...