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In Texas at the close of the Civil War wagon boss Adam Rait inherits a wagon train of rifles and ammunition when the owner is murdered. He must protect the cargo from several parties who would just as soon take it by force as pay for it while dealing with Angela de Acera (the Steel Angel).

In the second book of the "Rocky Mountain Memories" series, Lori Wick has crafted a romance with a few different twists than "Where The Wild Rose Blooms" (the first book in her series). "Whispers of Moonlight" is the story of Rebecca, a 19-year-old who goes out West in 1870 to live with her father after being separated from him for most of her childhood. When she arrives at her father's ranch, she meets his foreman, Travis, with whom she quickly falls...

"Using an old cannon that once belonged to Napoleon's army, an outlaw gang has been bringing trains to a screeching halt and then robbing them. Now Edward Sheffield, one of the owners of the railroad, wants to hire Kid Morgan, the man known as The Loner, to wipe the gang off the map. Morgan isn't interested--even when Sheffield's hot-blooded wife tries to seduce him into going after the gang's leader, Gideon Black, a renegade ex-colonel-turned-outlaw....

"Micah Bishop is rescued in the Mohave Desert and hired to escort two dozen brides to the mining town of Calico, but he soon finds that things are not as they seem"--

"The accidental gunslinger Dooley Monahan has quit wandering and settled down to a farmer's life. But when the itch for adventure gets too strong, he packs up and rides west. Along with his horse General Grant, and Blue, a dog who's too smart for his own good, Dooley rides for the Black Hills to strike it rich in the gold fields of Colorado. But fate has other ideas. When the trigger-happy Dobbs-Queeg gang holds up the Omaha bank, Dooley is mistaken...

Peter Quince was a fighter born and bred. Orphaned at a young age, he remembered an old woman saying that he was a bad one and would cause a lot of trouble in the world. Others claimed he had bad blood and it would show up sooner or later. But Bill Andrews felt a connection with the boy, took him home and raised him as one of his own despite his wife's misgivings. Peter soon learned he could manipulate people by withholding his true feelings -- showing...

He was a loner and a brooding man who trusted nothing and no one -- a white man as cunning as any Indian who owned nothing but his horse, his saddle and his guns. He was a man willing to gamble his life to get the woman he wanted. He was Shalako. Now Shalako is determined to cross the bleak Sonora Desert -- the Apaches' killing ground -- alone. On his way, he finds a European hunting party -- and a brave and beautiful young woman -- stranded and defenseless....

When Jesse Ross was eighteen, he was forced to learn firsthand that a person's life could be changed irrevocably by one deed, and that one act can set an endless chain of events into motion. That was something Jesse's neighbor, Gray Fletcher, had experienced years before when he was with the Texas Rangers. Gray had joined to seek retaliation against marauding Indians who killed two of his children and took his wife captive. Now Jessie has killed a...

Itinerant lawmen Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch return in a new installment of the series created by Robert B. Parker. After hunting down the notorious desperado Alejandro Vasquez, Territorial Marshal Virgil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch return him to San Cristobal to stand trial. No sooner do they remand him into custody than a major bank robbery occurs and the lawmen find themselves tasked with another job investigating the robbery of the Comstock...

Newspaper reporter Lester T. Booker sets out to interview legendary lawman, ex-gunfighter Ransom March. But the dime novel hero turns out to be little more than an old ex-lawman of questionable moral fiber who doled out death to unsuspecting -- and sometimes unarmed -- enemies. One criminal who escaped Rance's brand of justice is the man known as the Gravedigger -- a man who earned his moniker for buryng his victims alive. Rance comes out of retirement...