It was a duty to a dead man. Jensen had promised his friend that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis, but the search leads to Arizona Territory. When a young woman is seized by renegade Apaches, it's up to Jensen to save her from a brutal death.

Trisha McFarland goes on a hike with her mother and older brother, but wanders off into the forest to escape their bickering. She has only her wits for navigation and her Walkman, tuned to broadcasts of Boston Red Sox games and the gritty performances of her hero, Tom Gordon.

"Thor Norgaard hasn't spoken to anyone in his twenty-eight years, but when the young widow he loves crosses an ocean to live on his Appalachian farm, this reclusive alcoholic will brave much more than words to heal her heart"-- When Aven Norgaard leaves Norway to serve as housekeeper to her late husband's cousins in Appalachia, she expects lads in need of care, not three grown men, each in need of a wife and bound by a powerful brotherhood. As the...

"Montana Territory and a band of Assiniboine Indians give Preacher shelter for the winter. But across the border Preacher's old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies another tribe with whiskey, guns and bullets - then directs them to tey out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of death, bloodshed, and captives, and Deaver is delighted to learn that Preacher is among the fallen. But in the driving snow, with a handful of survivors,...

"When greed overtakes men's souls, it falls to the righteous mountaineer known as Preacher to rain fire and brimstone upon them from the barrels of his guns . . . Preacher has agreed to escort Barnaby Cooper through Dakota Territory's hills to establish a trading post. Accompanied by his friends Lorenzo and Tall Dog, the mountain man hopes they'll be able to protect Cooper from Sioux warriors who don't want any white man trespassing on their sacred...

"Born on a Cherokee reservation, John Henry Sixkiller is known as the most cunning lawman in the West. He's in Ringgold, Wyoming, for Bart Skillern, a vicious murderer he's been stalking for weeks. But before he can strike, Skillern goes to work for the town's corrupt mayor. So Sixkiller takes a job as a hired gun to destroy the mayor's gang from inside out. The plan is working--until he discovers that, except for one beautiful, crusading newspaper...

On the lawless frontiers of the American West, there is one rule every outlaw should remember: Never cross a mountain man like Matt Jensen. Not if you want to keep breathing. No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That's the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to--dazed and confused--until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last...

A young girl recalls her childhood days living with her younger brother and her loving grandparents in the rural, southern, mountains.

A modern family packs only the essentials and leaves the troubled city for a pioneer life in the Rocky mountains.