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Kari Underwood, an investigative reporter, writes an expose' about fraud, but quickly finds her prospective respondent has died. The police write it off as an accidental death until a second victim dies in similar fashion. Is this related to her story or could it be something more sinister? Jason has his own crisis at the Sutton CID and leaves to join Kari, the love of his life, in the States. However, a cold-blooded killer is on his trail, seeking revenge for the death of his brother. Tracking down a serial killer, Kari must also cope with a stalker, while Jason is concerned that the ...

It didn't sound dangerous. Lou Ryderson's mission was to get proof that an Indian agent was cheating the Indians out of their government-issue supplies at the Wind River Reservation. But Lou runs into trouble when Running Elk's bride-to-be, Kim, is kidnapped. To keep the war chief from leaving the reservation, Lou must steal the girl back. But when Lou, the gun-happy kidnappers and a rescue party all wind up on Lost Mesa at the same time, the air is filled with flying lead. Lou and Kim will be lucky as hell to escape with their lives!

Deeton and Hunter Kenny, half-brothers, as honest and hard working as any of their neighbors near Haleyon, Colorado.But because of their Cheyenne blood, they were shunned and harassed by almost everyone. Then, as winter approached, the restless band of Badland Raiders rode in and commandeered the town, taking what they wanted and instilling a reign of terror. They planned to use the snowbound settlement as their personal hideout until the spring thaw. Only Dee and Hunt dared to defy the raiders. When the war starts Dee finds himself alone, pitted against eight outlaws. His single ally is a ...

The Chinese community usually relied on the powerful tongs to dispense protection and punishment, but when hundreds of Chinese workers began to disappear without a trace, Kim Lee contacts US Deputy Marshal Reese Corbett. It falls to Reese, along with a half-Chinese interpreter and a rambunctious mountain man, to find out who is behind the disappearances. Increasingly, all trails lead to the dangerous and isolated hills of Snake Canyon.

Dustin Faraday was a man who did his duty; he killed his fellow countrymen to help make all men free. Other men, like Walt Kruger relished the number of men he killed, along with his well-earned title of One-shot. With the end of the war, each man took his own path – Dusty went to work on a ranch, while Kruger joined up with an Indian scout and used bounty hunting to continue his killing.A deadly attack leaves Dusty wounded and his world turned upside down. With a band of ruthless outlaws terrorizing the countryside, Dusty vows to help put an end to the Hammershaw gang. With only his ex-...

It seemed a simple, straight forward mission for Yancy Nodean: clean up Pine Junction. People were going broke in droves unable to pay the heavy taxes levied by the town mayor. Enforcing and collecting those taxes were a quick-gun marshal and several bully-boy deputies. Fear cast a dark shadow over the town and Yancy inherits a little girl and a half-breed young woman to add to his worries. He knows little about how to break the stranglehold of the mayor and lawmen, but he is determined to make Pine Junction a decent place to live. When the showdown comes, Yancy proves he is a hard man to ...

Author Amy Cole wants more than to write a story – she wants to live one. Her chance comes when she's asked to help clear a doctor of murder. Amy's investigation takes her to Little Babylon, a bandit stronghold in the wasteland of New Mexico. Meanwhile, Whitney Scott is on the trail of a band of killers and meets Amy before they arrive. She suggests they work together, but Whitney is soon being stalked by an unknown assassin. With the king of Babylon in hot pursuit of Amy and a killer running loose, she becomes less concerned with her investigation and simply hopes she and Whitney both ...

To keep from serving jail time, Vince Templeton agrees to take on a false identity and go to Surlock, Wyoming. Once there he is to work as a teamster for Charles Huston and try to prevent a war that is brewing between Huxton's Transport and the Yates freight outfit. However, when he falls hard for Jessie Yates, he has the impossible task of winning over a girl who hates him and everyone working for Huxton. When the showdown comes, he must not only save the woman he loves, but also outshoot a deadly gunman named Phoenix Cline...

The term blood money was never more appropriate than when applied to the lowly vermin who sold rifles to the Indians. Clay Valenteen's job is to make sure a shipment of stolen rifles doesn't end up in the hands of a band of renegade Apaches. However, a fatal brawl aboard a steamship and a close-mouthed stowaway nearly ruin his cover. Clay must use all his wits and skill with a gun or end up a permanent resident of Yuma's boot hill!

Haunted by the past, Paul Warrick is assailed by bad memories, and in an attempt to forget, drifts from town to town finding work. But a shoot-out at a casino lands him in jail, and with the valley on the verge of a range war, Paul's actions might be the fire to light the fuse. Paul becomes involved in the final showdown – and he must not only save his life, but also his own sanity at the same time!

The new job in California sounded laid-back and peaceful to Mace Banyon, ex-deputy U.S. Marshal. He had been hired by an eastern land corporation to supervise and collect payments from tenant farmers. But the sharecroppers – honest, hard-working Chinese – all had bottomland farms with irrigation. They were both envied and resented by the dry farmers in the valley. Mace found himself caught between the hostile farmers and townsmen, who were headed by a vicious, land-grabbing banker, and the almost defenseless Cantonese workers. When a drought threatens crop failure, tension and violence ...

Delryan was a wandering gambler when he stumbled upon the white girl called Capricho. Dressed like an Indian, she was forced to fight the toughest women in town for sport. Her manager, Faro, loved to gamble and lost the girl to Delryan in a card game. Before he could find a place for the seemingly mute girl, he joins up with a scout for the army. The war chief, Jutemayo, wants Capricho, as does Faro. Caught in the firestorm between bushwhackers and bloodthirsty Apaches, Delray tried to find the mastermind behind the sale of guns to the Indians. In a game of life and death, he hopes to draw ...

How hard could it be? Morgan Royce and his younger brother only have to bring back a banker's runaway wife and collect the five-hundred dollar bounty. But something else is going on. And their prey is neither predicable nor rational. Her escape route defies logic and it becomes clear that getting away is not her first priority. Meanwhile, Shilo has been protecting the banker and doing his dirty work for some time. When he discovers Selene had not simply ran off, the banker dispatches Shilo and a couple of his pals to follow after the Royce brothers. After Shilo informs him that they are ...

Boone Lucane wasn't the fastest gun in the family, but no one could match him when it came to tracking or hunting. That's why he is chosen to rescue his eight-year-old cousin, Eric, when he's kidnapped. Even pairing up with Race Lucane – whose gun is almost as quick as his dry wit – there is little chance for the two of them to find anything on this dangerous mission, except a quick death. Not only do the bandits have a week's head start, but they get into trouble before reaching the border. Death is at every turn, with Boone forced to use all of his skills, not only to survive, but to ...

He awoke injured, without a past. Given the name of Sundown by an aged hermit, he had two clues to his life's history – a list of men's names and the town of Cedar Flats. But before Sundown can attempt to search for his identity, he is drawn into a brutal murder and a range war. After meeting Letisha Floren, he is faced with three mysteries: Can a man fall in love with a woman when he might already have a wife and children? Is it possible for him to prevent the death and destruction of a range war? And will he survive the attempts on his life by some unknown assailant … a man who knows ...

The war between the Union and the Confederacy had ended, but the fight is not over for the Kenyon family. Being Yankees, their presence in Three Forks, Texas, is met with hostility and resentment. Dave Kenyon defies the odds and tries to court a local girl. Then he is forced to kill the cousin of a deadly bandit leader, Angel Gervaso, who vows revenge and sends his gang to burn Three Forks to the ground. The Union boys and pro-Confederate populace must now rally together against an unbeatable force!

Dace Kelly is three years into an eight year sentence at the Canyon City penitentiary when the warden offers him a deal to get him released. The catch: he must help the warden's sister save her ranch outside Tolerance, Colorado. He and Professor (a wannabe newsman who is also being released) ride there together. Problems are aplenty. The warden's sister does not want Dace around her ranch, a gunman is eager to test his skill against Dace and a powerful rancher is after the lady’s ranch. Mix in an assailant who intends to see the Professor dead and it all adds up to a single conclusion …...

When Evangeline Parrish learns that her bother Nelson has emptied a Wells, Fargo safe and gone on the run, she hires Ransom Fayne, a renowned bounty hunter, to bring him back before he ruins his life. A deadly ambush changes everything. The bandit's trail leads to Wayward, where a powerful man named Yancy Bodean runs the town. After his initial plan fails, Ransom gets help from an old friend and the pair seek to collect the bounty without getting killed in the process. Against such odds the chance of success are not good. However, Ransom is not a man who quits … not while he has a breath ...

With a U.S. Marshal on his back trail, Marc Kannon crosses the border into Mexico, where his brother is serving under General Basada. He hopes the French – Mexican conflict will be a place to hide for a few months. Marc is sorely disillusioned to discover his brother is riding with a gang of outlaws. Worse, their next target is a town he had passed through on his way across the border. A chance encounter leads him to kill one of Basada's men. From that point on, he knows he has to do whatever he can to prevent the destruction of Rio Diablo. The fight will be to the death, with his only ...

Branded! That's what the McCains were. After the womanizing father of five boys kills an upstanding citizen, the people of Rio Blanco not only hang him, but they condemn the offspring as well. Then Trace McCain saves Melanie Kendall, the niece of the man his father killed. The sparks that fly between them are not from hate, but from a mutual affection. With an unforgiving father, the romance is doomed … until a gang of ruthless killers come calling. Threatened with the destruction of their town, the only hope of the people in Rio Blanco hinges on the very men they have ostracized. Trace ...