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In the final volume of a trilogy, "the two-bit gunslinger," as Del Tackett is known, shows off his skills at poker in Shalak Springs, Colorado. The winnings include the saloon where the game was played, the saloon's comely bookkeeper, and her mule. By the author of Tackett and the Teacher.

Rancher's daughter Rebecca Donnell is marked for death after recognizing one of the men robbing the stage she is travelling on. Her father knows only that she has vanished off the face of the earth, so he hires Shane Preston and Jonah Jones to find her - or her body. The two gunfighters ride into the wilderness and discover the remains of the missing stagecoach. Nearby are three shallow graves. Their quest should have ended there. But the lean gunfighter...

Blake Durant is one of the crew driving Jay Hurwood's cattle to the railhead at Gabriel. The trail has been hard, but nothing more than he'd expected. Then two murders are committed, right out on the open prairie, and suddenly everyone becomes a suspect. Because there wasn't any love lost between Blake and the victim Joe Sowarth, Joe's brother Lanny is convinced that Blake is the culprit, and figures to even the score any way he can. But there is...

"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...

One hundred factory-new repeating rifles had gone missing - and if they fell into the wrong hands, the west would run red with blood. The job of finding them and returning them to the army fell to Shane Preston and Jonah Jones. Along the way, they collected a rag-tag bunch of helpers, from a Mormon missionary to a disgraced sheriff. And even when they located the rifles, getting them back to Fort Dumas wasn't going to be easy. The Mexican outlaw Pedro...