"Tangling with rustlers, bank robbers, and road agents is all in a day's work for Turnbo as he fights to bring law and order to the area around Abilene and San Angelo, Texas, but solving a deadly mystery will put Turnbo's life in more danger than ever before. It'll take all of the Ranger's wits and gun-handling skills to keep him alive as he untangles the strands of a lethal conspiracy!"--

The Contractor is based upon an actual event, an 1868 murder in a railroad camp during the building of the Union Pacific. The killer, a construction contractor, flees the territory only to find himself being pursued by N.K. Boswell of the Rocky Mountain Detective Agency. When Boswell takes the murderer into custody, however, the detective finds that his problems have only just begun. Now he has to transport him back to Laramie. Forty miles of empty...

What kind of crazy man would lead eighteen stolen mules into the searing heat of the Mojave Desert? But then no one figured the tattoo-covered Mangas Saragosa, the demon of the desert, to be an ordinary man. The Mojave is out of the jurisdiction of Sheriff Ned Cody, but his two best friends are belly down across the backs of two of those mules, and he knows if he doesn't get to them in time they'll be skinned alive and left for the buzzards. And when...

"On Hank Littleton's first assignment as a Texas Ranger, he shows how his crack-shot aim can stop the careful escape plan of a group of prisoners being escorted to Austin. Then his captain again pairs him with war veteran Joe Casebolt on a do-or-die assignment: catch the notorious band of robbers led by former lawman Isom Whitaker that is working the stages and rails near San Antonio. The two Rangers soon conclude that this wouldn't be such a tough...

"England Dan Rutledge and his partner John Cooley have worked their claim for a year and are barely eking out a living. When Cooley shows up with a map of the abandoned Irish Lord Mine he drunkenly bought off a shady cowboy, England Dan is sure it's a complete fraud. Then England Dan gets a good look at the map. Maybe they have the key to a fortune after all! When an infamous bank robber shows up looking for this mysterious map, England Dan and his...

"Warner Grayson and his wife Laura are perfect partners in the horse business. But they've become sparring partners in their marriage. Warner's stiff-necked pride over having a wife with a lof more money than he has turned their sparks of passion into hot, angry words. Not Laura has packed her bags and left the ranch-- and maybe their life together. A fighter, not a poet, a horseman, not a city sophisticate, Warner is out of his element when he follows...

"In this compelling new installment of bestselling author Ralph Compton's Sundown Riders series, a man seeks revenge for the death of his wife and sons while caring for his traumatized daughter. Carl Novak returned to the Texas hill country after fighting in the Civil War, but unlike most of his neighbors, Carl didn't fight for the Confederacy. He was a Union soldier. Carl tries to resume his life as a farmer with his wife and three children. One...

Back in Central Texas, Clay’s sister has died, and only on this river might he learn why. The person perhaps responsible may have fled here, but no one enters this no-man’s-land except at his own peril. Comanches are on the prowl, and across the Pecos, Mescalero Apaches range all the way to the mysterious Guadalupe Mountains. In a dead man’s boot, Clay finds a map to rumored gold in the Guadalupes. When Comanches approach, he flees upriver...

Tom Slade is riding shotgun for a Colorado and Prescott Stagecoach Company delivery of mine payrolls in Arizona when the stage is robbed. With no time to get help, Slade sets off in pursuit on a worn-out harness mule. But he hadn't counted on a woman showing up in the desert with her own reason for tracking down the outlaws, or her mysterious friend, Charlie Red.

Theo Belk is the quintessential gunfighter: rootless, ruthless, and deadly. In the fierce and lawless Western frontier of 1874 these traits were what was needed to stay alive. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, there is one man he has set out to destroy... Louis Gasceaux, the man who murdered his parents while a younger Theo watched. But the trail Theo's following is long and bloody... and Louis always seems to stay a few steps ahead. This...