The Bank of California in the 1860s is a powerful company that pays its mine workers very little and will not tolerate strikes, sending in vicious strikebreakers to beat down any opposition. When Majo
"The most exacting, yet the most rewarding job in the world"—that was how Gail thought of her job as the only woman physician at Thayer Hospital—and indeed the only woman doctor in Beauchamp, where fo
As soon as Jake Slade and his partner, Three Fingers Bent, arrived in the small Texas town of New Gideon, they knew no one wanted them there. There'd been some rustling in the area, and folks weren't
T. T. Flynn, author of such Western classics as The Man From Laramie and Two Faces West, is at his thrilling best in this collection of Western stories combining mystery, suspense, and action in artfu
Longhair Jim Courtright had been both a marshal and a desperado—and in Hell's Half Acre, the roughest part of Fort Worth, he was a living legend. His skill with a gun had made him a hero in some peopl
It's often been said that the only law in the West was a gun, and that outlaws rode unchecked over anyone unlucky enough to stand in their way. But as these two classic short novels by Lauran Paine sh
Each morning in the hour before dawn, a silent boat launches on the Bosphorous, moving swiftly into the deepest part of the waters halfway between Europe and Asia, where a man will die…In a gender rev
For the first time, these three stand-alone SideQuest adventures, set in the alternate history world of the popular Foreworld Saga, are collected in a single volume!The Beast of Calatrava, by Mark Tep
Ortiza Tarabal is the most beautiful ingenue in Alta, California, and her father is its wealthiest landowner. He has sent to Spain for a suitable bridegroom for his daughter, and in response Francisco
Elua, which means "two" in Hawaiian, is the second book in the romantic mystery series that features the adventures of Holly St. James, private detective.In this second book on the series, Holly St. J
Luke Yancy apprenticed to a gun-smith when he was just a boy. At fifteen, he fought in the Civil War, and later he became one of the youngest U.S. deputy marshals ever. Now, still in his twenties, Luk
The Civil War ended months ago, but in Lost Springs, Missouri, the fighting rages on. The town is run by Austin Urbank, an embittered Northern veteran who lost a leg—and his soul—in battle. Under Aust
Ranz Tanner is down to six cents and a lame horse when he defends a young Mexican girl in a cantina fight in the Arizona Territory; he shoots a man in self-defense and is promptly sentenced to five ye
Mac Avery, the man known as Banker, had no special business in the town of Mona. He was just riding through. But he didn’t like what he saw there.One man, Justin Carstairs, had the whole town in his h
Matt Sco?eld tried real hard to stay out of other people’s squabbles. He’d had enough ?ghting in the War Between the States and later in Mexico. As he rode toward his hometown, all he wanted was peace
Nothing in the town of Calico has been the same since the Grays' housekeeper, Emma Morrison, started writing. After she reads the first installment of her mystery to her writing class, everybody in
Two years ago, when Julie Turner was still in nursing school, Doug Haskell, a dynamic young lawyer, had proposed to her. Julie wanted to marry Doug more than anything else in the world, but she refuse
It was summer again, and Eve Colbert left her job in the city to return to Groversport, where she and her fifteen-year-old brother would live together in the cottage their parents had left them. It wa
Lovely redheaded Audrey Rush decided to humor her old friend Jacob Leyfield by going to Leyfield Hall to nurse Jacob's step-brother, Dean, who had been injured in an auto accident in which his cousin,
The jockey, the wealthy owner, the veteran trainer: one by one they die. All players in the high-stakes world of horse racing — and all complicit in its terrible sins. By making them pay, one killer e
Ex-cop Skip Lacey gave in to the ghosts of his past long ago, trading his badge for drugs and vanishing into obscurity — until he’s found dead in a San Francisco rail yard, his face bashed in and his
Fourteen-year-old Beth Bradshaw is trapped in a nightmare. Her parents, both cocaine addicts, party nonstop, failing to notice that Drew, a frequent guest in their home, has been spending time in youn
Magnolia Kelch has spent the last six months in seclusion, learning to control her savage new powers. Upon returning to the Network Task Force, she is suprised to find another agent living in her home
It’s clear to Will Lockhart that no one in Coronado wants a stranger in town, but he’s traveled a thousand miles through dangerous Apache territory to avenge his brother and no matter what they do to
During the turbulent years following the conquest of England in 1066, loyalties are divided and danger abounds. For a knight in disguise and a lady who must hide her true identity, love flourishes, bu
Lady Rebecca’s life changed forever in the blink of an eye. One moment she was fleeing her father across a storm-swept Bodmin Moor; in the next, her carriage overturned on a steep gorge. But she did n
Harry Tracy needs money, but he doesn't know what he's in for when a tough-looking character called the Kid offers to take him to Hole-in-the-Wall. The gang there has plenty of schemes to get rich, sc
A Spur Award-winning author "Orphans of the North," in Will Henry's words, is a story in which "you will meet no purely instinctive, so-called dumb animals, but only those sensitive wilderness folk wh
Crossroads, the fast-paced sequel to Luck, originally appeared serially in Argosy All-Story in six parts. As with all the work of Max Brand, gripping narrative carries the reader on a lightning ride f
A Storm's Coming...It was all part of the plan. While his brother was in Scotland dethroning the Lady of Falgannon, Jago Mershan was headed to Kentucky. There he would do his share in avenging his f
In the field of Western fiction, three authors stand unmatched: L’Amour, Grey, and Brand. Now three of their best short novels are collected in a single volume. Zane Grey’s From Missouri has been rest
A contemporary fantasy romance set in the English Westcounty and Ireland. The Magic Knot combines the mystery of Celtic Cornwall with the myths of ancient Ireland in a contemporary setting to give a s
In a sudden ambush in a deserted valley, Walt Durand's horse is shot out from under him, and he's drawn into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse against four men who want nothing more than to kill him in c
Back in his prime, Lin Garrett was a legend as a lawman. The story of how he captured outlaw Ollie Sinclair was a favorite in Arizona Territory. But Lin hung up his badge long ago and now spends his
In Wyoming, a little girl reads people’s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invi