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"Cassie Kendrick is on the run. Her abusive father arranged her marriage to a despicable man, but she’s discovered an escape. Disguised as a man, Cassie enlists in the Union army, taking the name Thomas Turner. On the battlefields of the Civil War, keeping her identity a secret is only the beginning of her problems, especially after she meets Gabriel Avery, a handsome young photographer. Anxious to make his mark on the world and to erase the darkness...

There's no taming Billy Blanchard. He's cut from the same rough cloth as his father, Jacob, the man who built the town of Black Horse Creek from nothing. Jacob takes pride in Billy's lawless, wild ways. But when the boy returns home with a stolen horse, having just killed a U.S. Marshal, Jacob knows trouble will follow. Called in on special assignment, enigmatic former deputy marshal Grayson is asked to find Billy and bring him in alive. But Grayson...

On the run from his family's murderers, Ty Butler survives with a few good hands, a loaded gun, and a little luck. But lying low is harder since he's earned a rep at the poker table and made some new friends named Earp, Masterson, and Holliday. In Denver, Butler finds Holliday in the clutches of corrupt lawmen. Wanted for murder in Tombstone, he'd rather go out in a blazing gunfight than face a hanging judge. Butler just has to keep Doc breathing...

"From the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the thundering new adventure starring traveling gunslinger John Holt, a lawman-for-hire on a mission to serve justice across the untamed Colorado territories - one bullet at a time. One of the deadliest, crime-infested towns in Colorado Territory, Devil's Gulch needed more than a sheriff. They needed a gunslinger. So they pinned a badge on hardcase lawman John Holt. And the rest is history. ....

Clint Ramsay is a renowned troubleshooter for the Underwood Detective Agency. He has been summoned to San Reale, Texas, by an old friend who needs his help. Ramsay soon discovers that danger is lurking behind every bush and rock in the small cattle town and finds himself drawn into a complex web of treachery, greed, and murder.

After rejoining the Texas Rangers as part of the Frontier Battalion, Josiah Wolfe must escort his old friend Charlie Langdon to trial. But the ride to the hangman's noose isn't going to be easy--and Wolfe's killer instinct may be his only chance to see his son again.

"A veteran of the Civil War, Emmet Lang returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Wandering bitter and disillusioned, he struck upon an ideal way to make a living: stealing from criminals. An Indian Affairs agent is traveling by stagecoach to Denver carrying forty thousand dollars he embezzled from funds destined to help the native tribes. At a way station, Lang and his gang of three outlaws hold up the stagecoach and...

Brodie Dent wakes up in a brothel in 1879 Sweetwater, Texas, to learn that a robbery and murder have occurred downstairs. The young ex-Ranger is quickly drafted to join the crusty town marshal on a vengeance ride, as the Marshals girlfriend was the murder victim. The only witness to the crime is the thirteen-year-old brain-damaged son of the murdered prostitute, and thus the boy must accompany Brodie and the marshal. When the bandits abduct four women...

In the Redhawk mining district, he is known as Johnny Montana. It is the name given to him by those who folloed him to the Northwest gold fields in the spring of 1863. Now, with a harsh Montana winter about to descend, all Johnny and his partners want to do is go home. And all that stands in their way is a highly organized gang of thieves and murderers. Others have tried to escape the Redhawk district with their summer's cache of gold. None have succeeded....

"Three times, Adam Bain and his twin sister, Eve, escape capture by attacking Indians; once by Adam and his brother, Noah, jumping off a hundred-foot-high bluff into the Llano River. But the day comes when their luck runs out, and Adam and Eve are captured by Mescalero Apaches. Because of Adam's flaming red hair, the Indians name him Rojo Pelo. Eve is named Castaño Rojizo because of her auburn hair. They are carried to the Guadalupe Mountains of...