A year after Charles Sampson headed for prison contention against Brian Richards begins to surface among a cluster of small ranchers. Accusations that Richards had stolen Sampson's property, and harbors a secret plan to take over the entire range, are voiced. When the talk turns to threats of burning Richards out is when Devon Macleod steps in to back his friend. Driven by a dark secret from the past outlaw Harper Sloan shows up in Drewsey with his gang to further agitate the ranchers into taking action against Richards. What shadowy purpose lay behind Sloan's actions is a mystery to them...

Copper Creek rested quietly in the Nevada desert, peaceful on the surface, but churning with corruption and violence beneath. Run by The Council, it was ruled with an iron fist and hired guns. In a move to control the entire region when gold was discovered The Council, a secret organization of men who had built the town around a copper mine and on the graves of those they had murdered, began to eliminate neighboring prospectors and settlers. The settlers, miners, and ranchers fought back. The winning cards all belonged to The Council until one of the miners, the father of U.S. Marshal Preston...

A Northwest Suspense Collection novel - The close knit community of Cougar Bend lay quiet on Idaho's Clearwater River. Eighteen-year-old Ty Kavanagh, fights an inner battle of guilt and self-blame for an accidental death he had no control over. Jep, 19, whose family are the despised corrupt Shuler clan long standing enemies of the Kavanaghs, struggles to break free of the family mold and lift himself up to respectability. Then the murder of a young woman traveling through the area lands squarely on his doorstep. Le Tueur - The Killer. A rogue big game and horse killing cougar turned...

Nineteen-year-old Dane Chandler rode away from his father's grave with one intention - to kill the man who had murdered him over a maverick yearling. As he left behind his home, his place on the Branson Ranch and, most importantly, the girl he had planned to marry, his father's best friend left him with a prophecy and a light, 'The time will come when you will see the error of this decision. You will be lost in an endless night, but dusk comes before the night, Dane remember that. Before the night, when dusk falls, remember the way home.' The next two years found Dane living the life of a...

Courage, integrity, and honor were highly respected traits among the men and women who built lives in the early days of the American West, but were they ever subject to indecision, doubts, worries, loss, guilt, and even fear? Yes, after all these were real people with all the same emotions we deal with today. Yet they prevailed, making the right decisions, quelling the doubts, and overcoming their fears. Among the 17 stories in this collection you will meet people like Cooper Thompson who can no longer run from his family in "He's My Brother," and Cassie Dahlman who sets out to defend her...

'Mercenary, ' 'Gun for hire, ' and 'Most dangerous man in Montana' were the saloon and barber shop rumors about Virgil Creede, but the real man, whom they didn't know, lived by a personal code with very high standards. Anyone bent on harming women or families went against that code, and for that reason Dora Pickett sought him out. Merciless Chicago underworld boss Jerome Pickett had set up business in gold-rich Helena, Montana dealing in money and murder. When he targets his own son for execution, Dora asks Virgil to help her innocent brother and his family escape their father's retaliation....