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"Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it's personal and it's bloody-and going to get bloodier. First, they stole fifty of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Jim Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole two thousand cattle from Big Jim . . . and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they're going to pay ... The leader of this unholy band of devils is Delbert Catron...

Kate Kerrigan travels to Dodge City to investigate a crime involving one of her hired cowboys, Hank Lowery, while back at the family's West Texas ranch, Kate's son Quinn must remain vigilant when a wagon trail of ill travelers arrives on their land.

In 1854 South Texas, Regis Royle, while trying to turn eighteen-thousand acres of raw prairie land into the greatest cattle ranch in the world, must fight for his dream when the powerful Valdez family claims rights to his land and will kill to get their hands on it.

"After thirty hard years of chasing stampedes into storms and pushing herds of half-crazy cows across the plains, longtime buddies and cattle drivers Casey Tubbs and Eli Doolin are ready to hang up their spurs. But when they get to Abilene with their final delivery of two thousand cows, the company lawyer has skipped town with their crew's entire wages. That means there's just one last job Eli and Casey will have to do... Steal it back. Sure, pulling...

Cowboys Scratch Morton and Bo Creel get a job transporting three vicious criminals from Arkansas to Texas for trial. The most dangerous criminal turns out to be a beautiful woman and soon the journey turns into a race for buried treasure, a shootout, and much more than these cowboys bargained for.

Out Of The Fight--And Into The Fire A deadly confrontation with the outlaw who murdered his wife has left Frank Morgan a wounded shell of his former self--until a woman he once knew calls him back to Parker County. Married to another man, Mercy Monfore has a hold on Morgan that cannot be denied. Now, she needs him to take on a dangerous gang--with the law in Parker County set against him and only a young Texas Ranger on his side. But as a battle explodes,...

They call him the butcher of Baxter Pass, the notorious former Union general who massacred 200 Confederate prisoners just because he could. Now it's Sheriff Jess Casey's unenviable job to protect the bloodthirsty murderer from those who want him dead, which turns out be pretty much everyone south of the Maason Dixon Line. When the butcher arrives in Fort Worth, followed by the vengeance hungry McNamara can Casey has to swallow his disgust and uphold...

Cowboys Scratch Morton and Bo Creel get a job transporting three vicious criminals from Arkansas to Texas for trial. The most dangerous criminal turns out to be a beautiful woman and soon the journey turns into a race for buried treasure, a shootout, and much more than these cowboys bargained for.

"Sheriff Jess Casey and his oddball band of sidekicks have pulled off the impossible, taming Hell's Half Acre, the most lawless town in Texas, infamous for murder, mayhem, prostitution, and every random act of bloodshed imaginable. Now the no-good politicians in Austin have decided it's cheaper to dump hordes of criminals on Jess Carey's town than hanging 'em. In one dreadful week it seems as if the gates of Hell have burst open. Freed outlaws, gunslingers,...

When a wealthy cattle baroness hires Joe Buckhorn to track down her son, it sounds like easy money. But when he learns that the boy has run off with a girl--whose father is the leader of the cattle-rustling Riley clan--Buckhorn's only hope is to infiltrate the gang. Gain their trust. Live the outlaw life, even at the risk of death. There's just one problem: there's more than one gang. The Riley girl may have stolen a runaway boy's heart but the other...