Life isn't easy in the 1860s on the western frontier as the discovery of gold and silver beckons prospectors, and the promise of cheap land attracts ranchers and farmers from the East Coast. It is a time of greed, lawlessness, self-preservation, and opportunity. The wayward Tom Lawson seizes the moment when he discovers a cache of silver near the town of Ribera in southern Arizona, between El Paso and Tucson. When the Lawson family receives word of Tom's silver strike, his brother Ben must decide whether to begin his medical career as planned or assist his brother. Reluctant but enticed, Ben moves from Colorado to Arizona to help his sibling. On the stagecoach ride from El Paso to Ribera, he and the other passengers are robbed. It becomes all too evident that the territory is under constant threat by Indians, renegade discharged Confederate soldiers, and disenfranchised Mexicans. "Gold, Silver, and Guns" follows the stories of Ben and five others who migrate to Ribera seeking adventure and fortune. As they discover that life in this agitated small town may pose challenges and risks far greater than the rewards, they each must weigh the price of what it takes to survive and prosper.

In February of 1851, when Royce Oatman makes the fatal decision to take his pregnant wife and seven children across the Arizona desert alone in his haste to get to California, they are attacked and slaughtered by Tonto Apaches. Two of the children, Olive, fourteen and Mary Ann, eight, are captured and taken to the Apache village where they endure a year of slavery and deprivation. They are purchased by the daughter of the Chief of the Mojaves and taken to the Mojave village where they receive somewhat better treatment but are still slaves. After Mary Ann dies in a famine, Olive, if she is to survive, must assimilate into the Mojave tribe. She witnesses scenes of torture and savagery that disparage any thoughts of escape. When, after five years of captivity, she is suddenly returned to civilization, she must re-learn the ways of white society and never reveal the secrets of her past. Although every attempt is made to portray her as 'the virgin captive, ' rumors persist until, in a dramatic climax, Olive reveals the shocking truth to her husband.

Faro Bantry is the young son of a wealthy New York financier. River Rapids is a Choctaw Indian. The two happy-go-lucky drovers pair up in Blackwater, Kansas, at the end of a long trail drive. On their way home to Paramour, Texas, the two men manage to get into a number of scrapes, and somehow they cheat death without ever knowing how.

But Faro and River can't avoid the shear horror that awaits them when they meet up with Cecil "S.O.L." Boyd-a tobacco chewing, Adonis-bodied ruffian who's never lost a gunfight-and his gang. It is then that they learn what the real Wild West is about, as they become party to the most savage, horrifying massacre ever committed on the lonesome trail.

Beginning where all the other Westerns left off, "Cowboys Don't Cry" provides a raw look at the life of a cowboy on the Chisholm Trail.

Blissful Kisses - A dark, dashing and dangerous law man, entrusted with protecting an innocent, beautiful, young blonde on her journey to achieve her dreams. A man known for taking what he wanted, whenever he wanted. Will his obsession shatter her innocence? Or will she save him with her true love? Girly girl Angelica has dreams of finding true love and fame in the big city. Will Cash, her newly appointed dark and dashing protector, be able to save her from the danger she doesn't even see? Or is the real danger her love for the handsome and brooding Cash, who has his own obsession that just may be his undoing? Certain things catch your eye, But pursue only those that capture your heart. Be swept away by their love stories in this trilogy! Capture My Soul, Blissful Kisses and Save Me With Your Kisses! (This book was previously published under another pen name. Thank you for your wonderful reviews and comments!)

Idaho, 1888. Wade Dellums receives a cryptic letter from his childhood friend Ben Taylor asking for his help. Since Ben isn't the kind of fellow to ask for help unless there's big trouble afoot, Wade doesn't hesitate to put aside his job as a rancher, cowboy, and rifle salesman to ride to Idaho. When Wade arrives in White Willow, the town nearby Ben's home, he hears talk of a ruthless cattleman named Charlie Tate who wants Ben's ranch. The only problem is that Ben refuses to sell. Wade does a little more sniffing around town to try and gather as much information on Tate as he can-and what he hears isn't good. Tate has a reputation for stopping at nothing to get what he wants. Armed with his trusty Winchester, Wade heads out to Ben's ranch and discovers that Tate and his men are about to force Ben to sell, by bodily injury if necessary. With Ben's wife and son caught in the crossfire, Wade knows he has to make a move. Can he save Ben and his family without risking his own life? There's only one way to find out

The US Army's fighting experience from the Civil War's end in 1865 until the Western Frontier's end in 1890 has come to be known as the Indian Wars period. Previous conflicts had been limited to skirmishes with native tribes as their people were pushed westward into yet unwanted territory. Following the 1849 gold rush, travel routes and settlement pockets had increased across the trans-Mississippi regions as ever-greater numbers of Euro-Americans quested for land (and gold), enlarging the conflict between incompatible ways of life. As settlers and adventurers besieged tribesmen, some chose guerrilla warfare, characterized by skirmishes, raids, massacres, battles, and campaigns of varying intensities that ranged over plains, mountains, and deserts of the vast American West. Because the army's responsibilities involved great distances, limited resources, and extended operations (often impeded by governmental policies), its punitive actions suffered. From revolutionary times, the new United States held anti-standing-army sentiments believing that the "Indian problem" can be settled by nonmilitary means. Hence, the post-Civil War army dropped in half by the critical centennial year when the nation was shocked by the Little Big Horn catastrophe. In the previous ten years, a series of forts had been built and a command structure was organized for frontier defense around two western commands: the Division of the Missouri (containing Departments of Arkansas, Missouri, and the Platte) and the Division of the Pacific (containing Departments of California, Columbia, and the Gulf). Since the theater of war was largely uninhabited, its variations in climate and geographical features and its extreme distances were accentuated by army manpower limitations, logistical problems, and movement difficulties. In the postwar decades, few officers and soldiers had frontier and Indian-fighting experience against an unorthodox enemy. Those who had previous contacts approached their opponents with respect and were often helpful in promoting solutions to the Indian problem. Most memorable among the army's nineteenth century leaders are the names of Sherman, Sheridan, Miles, Howard, Gibbon, Sully, Cooke, Canby, and Crook. Given the central role their soldiers made in dealing with the Indians, the US Army and a few of its notable leaders made major contributions to the consolidation of the American continent.

Follow two Texas brothers who are separated by the Civil War and take completely different paths in life. Billy becomes a soldier in the Confedereate army and Jimmy transforms himself from farmer to a rporter for the Austin American Statesman newspaper. While one brother is fighting th e war, the other brother is reporting on the war and covering battles all over Texas, and even participates in one of them. Learn how their love for each other endures and is instrumental in their ironic reuniting.

The major character in the story is Troy O'Neill, an Arizona boy reared by a religious mother of Dutch heritage and an adventurous Irish father. The boy treks northward into the wilds of the mountains and canyons of Utah in search of an ancient Aztec treasure. Amid harrowing experiences and life-and-death struggles, the impossible dream comes true.

Lon McKay, a young cowhand in Wyoming in 1860, falls in love with the beautiful Laura Bowman. But their marriage plans are interrupted when Lon visits his mother in Indiana after the death of his father. He rides right into a new conscription law, and is drafted into the Union Army in the midst of the Civil War in 1863.

After two years, including a stint in Andersonville Prison, Lon is discharged from the army as a cavalry lieutenant. He returns to Wyoming to find Laura has been mistakenly informed of his death and has married another man. Lon moves on with his life and becomes a scout, then a U. S. Marshal in the southwest.

Years later he receives a letter from Laura, now a widow in serious trouble, asking for his help. In response to her plea, Lon returns to Oak River Falls .