"Brett Fasken came out of the cedar brakes and got his first look in six years at those dun and red bluffs stacked like double cardboard behind Packer's Crossing. So Brett returned home -- only to find himself pitted against his own sister in a blazing battle for control of a cattle empire. Josephine Fasken was no ordinary girl. She was tough, hard-talking, and universally feared. She was teamed up with a gun-slinging bully called Red and a foreman...

"Rogue Madden was a laughing man. He and his friends never seemed to take anything too seriously and could find laughter in most situations. After a wild poker party at his ranch house in Mexico, Rogue receives a telegram that a party of nine guests would be arriving that day and bringing the loveliest surprise. When the travelers arrive, there are plenty of surprises. First, they announce they have been robbed by bandits only a few miles from the...

"Shirley Benson was owner now of the beautiful Valle de los Reyes, mistress of the old Spanish ranch house and its faithful Mexican servants. On the night that her father was killed in a rustler's raid, she made the unpleasant discovery that the Box B ranch was heavily mortgaged and that most of her cattle had disappeared, stolen by the men who had murdered her father. With courage inherited from her pioneer forebears, she refuses to sign the quit-claim...

"A few hours after he had a violent argument with the railroad's lawyer, tough rancher Wyatt Kearsage was dead! Two days later, quick-drawing, smart-thinking Gregory Quist ran headlong into trouble when he started to investigate the murder of the man who had refused the railroad passage through his ranch. Heads were smashed and guns thundered as Quist tangled with the railroad's lawyer, beat up the belligerent saloon keeper, played cat-and-mouse with...

"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...