Slocum trades lead with some low-down claim jumpers…Marianne Lomax stands to inherit a huge silver claim—as soon as she gets past a few problems. Thieves are after the claim, the assay office has burned down, and the only copy of the deed is hidden.John Slocum has problems of his own—trying to explain a corpse he was unwittingly transporting to Tombstone. But when his former lover Marianne asks for help, he takes on the claim jumpers. And when her son befri...

Slocum gets mixed up with a real man-eater!Half the town of Poleaxe has gone crazy for the seductive voice and voluptuous charms of Tiger Lil Kirkland—and the other half is waiting up for them at home with a rolling pin. John Slocum oughta know better than to get mixed up with her again, but hell—she makes him loco, just plumb loco. And she’s crazy for him too—at least in bed.Away from the sheets, though, Lil looks for bigger fish to fry—and Poleaxe’s big f...

Slocum’s reached the end of his rope against the Hemp clan…Down to his last few dollars in the town of Hard Luck, Slocum decides to collect a bounty when he spies wanted man Asa Hemp. Unwilling to come peacefully, the outlaw finds himself on the receiving end of Slocum’s Colt—and sent to an early grave.Infamous for running people off their land so they can expand their own ranch empire, the Hemp clan don’t take kindly to folks who shoot their kin. But if th...

Slocum’s left high and dry…Dehydration, Wyoming, lives up to its name. Slocum sees water, water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink—since a local magnate built a dam, hoarding all the agua for himself.Desperate, the local law offers five grand to anyone who can bring in water. When a buxom señorita shows up with her divining rod, Slocum wets his whistle with what she’s offering, while giving the local water-hog an ultimatum: share the liquid—or sw...

They’ve got the wrong man. But Slocum’s sure as hell got the right woman…When John Slocum rides through Bender’s Gap, a local posse thinks they’ve found their man. Some lowdown smooth talker has cuckolded more than a few of the town’s husbands—and, unfortunately for Slocum, he’s the spittin’ image of the small-town Casanova…To save his hide, Slocum takes off on a mission of mercy. A stranger has written a letter, begging for his help. And Slocum’s luck turn...

Slocum plans on putting someone to pasture...Secrets run deep in Apache Wells, Arizona, where someone is preying on the premium ponies—picking up horses and leaving them out to dry…in pieces. When John Slocum gets lassoed in to put a stop to it, something rotten starts to stink worse than the carrion…With a mistress in need and fine meals to be had, the Bar C Ranch seems like a good place for a rest from his work. But as strange gold pieces sprout up among ...

Slocum tracks down a titanic treasure trove!When a dying man begs John Slocum to deliver one half of a mysterious map to his brother in Virginia City, there’s no way he can refuse. But his honorable intentions lead him into a mother lode of trouble, with a gang of cutthroats aiming to take the map from his cold, dead hands, a pair of devious and delightful women who each want the treasure—and Slocum—for themselves, and a winner-take-all hunt for a stolen fortune. N...

Even wizards in the U.S. armed forces have to go home some time.First Magus Brent Rogers of the US Army stationed in Afghanistan is ordered to return home on furlough. Considered a war mage, he is trained to find enemies at a distance, to blow up their bombs, and to alert his men of danger.None of this is needed in the city of Worcester, his hometown.Brent has to learn to relax, to not see threats in every corner, and to let his family welcome him home.But i...

For this criminal clan, revenge is a family affair…Out a-bounty-hunting, Slocum’s just passing through the God-forsaken town of Breakneck. But when his quick thinking saves a rancher’s life from one of the notorious Beamer brothers, the gunslinger is hired on as the man’s bodyguard. Easy enough work, Slocum reckons. Sitting fat all day, meals paid for, saying howdy-do to the lovely fillies…But when Slocum kills Billy and Ike Beamer to save his own hide, the...

Slocum catches hell in a cattlemen’s conflict!After a particularly hard job, John Slocum stops for a spell in the cattle town of Guadalupe, just north of Mexico. He’s just starting to relax and make friends when the long-standing bad blood between local ranchers spills onto the range—and Slocum gets caught knee-deep in the crimson carnage.What starts with a back-shot cowpuncher and some stolen herds threatens to escalate into all-out war, with every cattlem...

Slocum takes on a corrupt lawman and his cattle baron boss…Long on the trail and out of funds, Slocum takes a job as a cowpoke at the Snug T Ranch, lured by the promise of three squares and pay—and by the beautiful and buxom ranch owner’s niece. Little does he know that there’s trouble brewing like bad coffee between Tyson, the Snug T’s owner, and LeDoux, owner of a rival ranch who has the local sheriff on his payroll.When Slocum sees the unarmed Tyson ambu...

Slocum’s on the trail of a different kind of quarry—a wayward husband.After road agents stole the supply wagon train Slocum was riding shotgun on, he tracks the gang to the booming mining town of Orofino, Idaho. There, he makes the acquaintance of Jane Carson, a bartender whose ability at stirring drinks pales in comparison to her ability to stir the fire in men’s souls.Jane wouldn’t be tending bar if it hadn’t been for the husband who abandoned her. She tr...