Colonel Utah Blaine, held captive by the Army of the Revolution, broke out of jail and headed north from Mexico with nothing but the clothes on his back. Then he found new trouble struggling at the end of a noose?and stepped in just in time to save the life of a Texas rancher. The would-be executioners were the rancher?s own men, looking to steal his land. Now Utah has a unique proposition: Have the wealthy Texan play dead, introduce himself as the...

Matt Coburn must contend with gamblers, thieves, and outlaws if he is to clean up Confusion, a boomtown that sprung up when the mine opened. For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness...

In one swift moment, a fall wiped away his memory. All he knew for certain was that someone wanted him dead—and that he had better learn why. But everywhere he turned there seemed to be more questions—or people too willing to hide the truth behind a smoke screen of lies. He had only the name he had been told was his own, his mysterious skill with a gun, and a link to a half million dollars' worth of buried gold as evidence of his past...

The only hope that Eileen Mulkerin and her sons have of saving their ranch lies in finding a hidden cache of gold whose location was known only to her dead husband.

Rafe Caradec promises a dying man that he will save the Long Valley ranch for the man's wife and daughter. But the daughter does not trust him and plays into the greedy hands of enemy ranchers.

Holed up in a cabin in the Idaho hills, the mysterious man who called himself Trent wasn't looking for trouble. It came looking for him. A trigger-happy kid named Cub Hale emptied his gun into an unarmed man. Then he came swaggering after Trent. The girl who ran the gambling hall tried to get him to hightail it. But Trent wasn't buying. Even in that forsaken back country, he knew when a man had to speak with his shooting iron.

They came to the Comstock Lode, drawn to the harsh mountains and twisting canyons of Nevada by the promise of instant wealth. It was the richest deposit of silver the world had known, and drifters and dreamers, builders and killers fought, worked, schemed, and died to wrest the metal from the earth--or to profit from whose who did. For Val Trevallion, a dangerous loner, twisted by his need for vengeance, it was a chance to build a lasting future--and...

James Brionne lost his wife and home when the Allard family came for revenge, and even though Brionne took his son west seeking peace and a new life, the Allard family won't quit until Brionne is dead.

Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom Lundy broke the law and crossed the line. Later that night, he was dead.
Outraged by her brother’s murder,...