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Unscrupulous bankers, abandoned homes, and a cold-blooded killer on the loose: Mags Rogers and her wire-haired dachshund, Baxter, dig up the dirt in this novel. Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The...

"In the depths of a cruel High Lonesome winter comes a cryptic message for Smoke Jensen. The letter tells of skullduggery by gold barons, railroad magnates and Chinese tongs in San Francisco. Smoke knows only one person in San Francisco, Francie, mistress of one of the town's most notorious pleasure palaces. Smoke once rescued her from raiding Cheyenne, but now Madame Francie is mysteriously dead ... and Smoke's arrival in San Francisco is less than...

"Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy, especially one who left her high and dry without...

1875. Kathryn Walsh arrives in tiny Calvada, a mining town nestled in the Sierra Nevadas. Banished from Boston by her wealthy stepfather, she has come to claim an inheritance from the uncle she never knew: a defunct newspaper office on a main street overflowing with brothels and saloons, and a seemingly worthless mine. Moved by the oppression of the local miners and their families, Kathryn decides to relaunch her uncle's newspaper-- and finds herself...

In Las Vegas, a family squabbles over who will run their Babylon Casino. Retiring matriarch Fanny favors Jeff, the illegitimate son of her late husband, but Birch, one of her real sons wants the job.

In Las Vegas, gambler Jessy Spearhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. A man with a knife protruding from his back crashes and pins her to the craps table while whispering the word "Indigo." Private detective, Dillon Wolf, finds himself fascinated by the redhead trapped beneath the victim. The unlikely pair forge ahead with an investigation that will risk both their lives.

Epic novel, filled with all the sweep, color, and excitement of the world's greatest silver strike. Fleeing a violent past, Val Trevallion comes to a silver mining town and meets a beautiful actress who is seeking opportunities to fulfill her dream.

"Nora Kelly, a young but successful curator at the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute, is approached by a historian, Clive Benton, with the opportunity to lead an expedition unlike any other. It begins with the story of the ill-fated Donner Party, who became permanently lodged in the American consciousness in the winter of 1847, when the first skeletonized survivors of the party stumbled out of the California mountains, replete with tales of courage,...

While in the army in Paris, Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone fought over women, but now they fight a common enemy as Paddock tries to kill the Bannock war party before they get to Kilrone and the fort full of women and children Kilrone is protecting.