The sagebrush country remembers every secret.For twenty years Clay Ransom rode the frontier as a lawman and a gunfighter. Now the towns are changing, the railroad is coming, and men like him are supposed to fade quietly into the dust.But someone in Dry Wash wants him dead.When a respected rancher is murdered and the blame falls on Ransom, the old gunman finds himself hunted by the very town he once protected. The killers think they've cornered a tired old man.

he Silver Dollar Saloon had seen drunks, gamblers, and gunfighters.But it had never seen a night like this.When U.S. Marshal Caleb Ward steps through the batwing doors, he isn't there for a drink. He's there for three men wanted for stagecoach robbery and murder. The problem? Every one of them is armed. And none of them plans on leaving in irons.One wrong word sends chairs flying and whiskey spilling. One wrong move turns oak tables into barricades.Now the l...

Prisoner of War - 12 Civil War Memoirs gathers twelve firsthand narratives of captivity into a compelling record of the Civil War's human costs. Moving between recollection, documentary testimony, moral reflection, and vivid adventure narrative, the volume illuminates capture, transport, prison discipline, hunger, illness, exchange, escape, and endurance. Its varied prose—from restrained chronicle to emotionally charged reminiscence—belongs to the rich postwar literature through which Amer...

Gunsight was the kind of town that didn't forget—and didn't forgive.When Cal Rourke rides into town to settle a quiet score, he figures to leave the same way he came: alone and unnoticed. But Gunsight has tightened its grip since the last honest man passed through, and refusing to bend now means taking a bullet in the street.With gunfire snapping at his heels, Cal rides hard out of town and straight into a stretch of country where every mile carries a price. Men from Gunsig...

Gunsight was the kind of town that didn't forget—and didn't forgive.When Cal Rourke rides into town to settle a quiet score, he figures to leave the same way he came: alone and unnoticed. But Gunsight has tightened its grip since the last honest man passed through, and refusing to bend now means taking a bullet in the street.With gunfire snapping at his heels, Cal rides hard out of town and straight into a stretch of country where every mile carries a price. Men from Gunsig...

He should've died in that cave.Jake Morrow ran as far as a man could run—from the law, from his past, from the memory of a mistake that won't stay buried. But when the earth caves in behind him, the darkness ahead is worse than anything chasing him.There's something alive beneath the desert.Something that moves in the sand.Something that waits for men who are too slow.Trapped below ground with no way back, Jake has only one choice—crawl forward into ...

When the music stopped, Red Willow's future changed.Lila Grant knows how frontier towns survive—fast laughter, cheap whiskey, and knowing when to stand your ground. But the night violence walks into the L.S. Bar, even she feels something shift beneath her boots.What begins as a dance cut short becomes the spark for old grudges, quiet deals, and long-buried truths to rise from the dust. A confident threat. A gun hand hesitating. And a long-legged stranger with a steady eye a...

Before it became folklore… it was survival.In the swamps and backwoods of Baker County, Florida, moonshine was more than contraband — it was a lifeline. From the Great Depression through the postwar years, families turned to copper stills and fast cars to put food on the table.Moonshiners who once dodged roadblocks later became respected citizens. Lawmen who chased them remember the thrill to this day.This is the untold history of a county that ran on white lightnin...

He didn't pull the trigger.He just happened to be holding the gun.When a small-time fixer is found dead and the wrong man is left standing over the body, the city is quick to decide who's guilty. Framed for murder and abandoned by the law, he's forced underground—into cheap rooms, darker alleys, and a web of corruption that reaches from backroom lawyers to the highest offices in town.As the truth begins to surface, survival means becoming dangerous. Allies lie. Powe...

The Mississippi River made fortunes overnight—and buried just as many men beneath its muddy waters.Luke Gannon drifted from river town to river town living by cards, instinct, and nerve. On the crowded gambling decks of the great steamboats, a man could win a fortune before midnight—or end up floating face down by dawn.But when Luke uncovers a crooked scheme involving stolen gold, river pirates, and a powerful gambler who controls the Mississippi through fear and murder, he...

The stage from Red Basin was supposed to be a quiet run.Instead, it rides straight into hell.When a band of hardcase road agents springs an ambush along the narrow trail through Timber Gulch, the passengers aboard the Overland stage find themselves trapped between the guns of ruthless outlaws and the deadly canyon walls.But the killers made one mistake.They didn't know a quiet rider named Luke Tanner had taken the shotgun seat.Tanner is a man with a ...

Out on the open range, a man can ride ahead of trouble—but he can't leave it behind.When a seasoned rider breaks from the pack to settle unfinished business, he discovers that every choice carries a shadow. The men following him are not strangers. They are witnesses, debts, and consequences—each one drawn forward by the same stretch of unforgiving land.As the trail narrows and the past closes in, the rider must decide whether to keep running alone… or turn and face ...