El Sombre: Saga of Boozer Runyan Cheyenne, Wyoming, in the l880's, finds itself in the grip of a secret, underworld crime syndicate, that is grabbing land from the locals. Undercover U.S. Marshal, Adam West, (Alias, Boozer Runyan) from Washington, DC, arrives, incognito, discovering an invisible empire of Satanic interests that are seeking to fund a war, at the risk of collapsing the American Banking System, using "The Wild Bunch" as pawns.

It is 1888, and for Jesse Riddle, time has already brought too much change. Caught between the excitement of life on Harrison Avenue in Leadville, Colorado, and his commitment to the Lord, he must now make some big decisions.

Work in the mines has exposed him to a new world of hard living and reckless self-indulgence, and Jesse knows that the direction his life is taking is hurting his preacher father. The church has always been the center of the young man's life, but now more worldly temptations are pulling him away. He tries to resist the lure of the saloons, with mixed success. His reputation as a man to be feared troubles him. But despite it all-the temptations, the accolades, the power-he could not ignore the commitment he had made to the Lord.

Jesse needs to get away for a while. The mountains have always been his place of sanctuary, and it is to their high reaches that he runs in times of doubt. He could not have imagined what God had in store for him-a mystery beyond his ability to understand. Strange new people and machines have slipped through time, but for what purpose? The choices he must make now will determine the course of the rest of his life. The stakes are high, and the time to decide is short.

The year is 1880 and Jackson Junction is about as wild as any town on the western frontier. A national depression in 1873 has forced many men out of their jobs. One sheriff depends upon volunteers for his posses to keep the peace. It's in this social climate that Toby, a 15-year-old, arrives on an orphan train from New York City to be adopted by the Oliver family and to be put to work as a cub reporter for Mister Dunn, editor and publisher of the Junction Citizen Press. Mister Dunn is tired of printing only planting schedules for farmers and cooking recipes for the town's wives. He wants exciting stories in his newspaper, and gives that assignment to Toby. Of course, with 67 saloons on Main Street and a news tipster by the name of Captain Pig Reardon of the Michigan Central Railroad Police, Toby has no trouble finding excitement to write about for Mister Dunn. "Train Town," as Toby likes to call Jackson Junction, because of the numerous trains, and their whistles, provides plenty of exciting stories for Toby to write. There are bank robberies by an elusive gang, a terrible collision of two passenger trains near the depot, a coal mine explosion, a cyclone, a wild cattle drive through town that has a fatal ending, a wild west show that almost gets Toby killed and a pair of court cases which involve the Michigan Central Railroad just to mention a few of Toby's big stories. And, there's Bethany Wiggins, who, at 15, has her eye on Toby as her future husband ... and, not too far in the future as far as she's concerned. There's never a dull moment with Captain Pig Reardon around to bend Toby's ear with "scoops" for him to write about for the Junction Citizen Press. However, Pig always has anulterior motive, hoping to lure Toby into one of his quick-money-making schemes to help Pig finance his way east, so he can perform on the New York stage. "Train Town" will take the reader back into a time of oil lamps, dirt streets and the smell of horse manure, wooden sidewalks, bare-knuckle prize fights, twenty-five cent meals at restaurants and boarding houses for a good many of the town's families. And, of course, the railroads. They never stop building new lines into Jackson Junction. They come from the east, the west, the south and the north. There'll be three different passenger depots in town, plus freight yards, roundhouses and miles and miles of track. "Train Town" has it all, and Toby Oliver, cub reporter, is ready to tell you every exciting minute of it in the action-packed pages of this novel.

Knowing his people face a bleak future on the reservations, Chief Sitting Bull prays to the Great Spirit for a different path. The Great Spirit's answer is to send General George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry 40 years into the past, where they join Davy Crockett to defend the Alamo against Mexican forces under the command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Custer believes defending the Alamo may be his greatest moment of glory, but he soon learns that this war for Texas independence will prove far more complicated.

"The deep shadows were lightened by shafts of sunshine which, here and there, managed to pierce the canopy of foliage . . ."

Kenneth wants nothing more than to be a forester. Lumbermen have been wiping out the timber and never thinking of the future: he knows that. The time has come for forestry to take a bigger role, out in the Alleghenies and farther west -- and he wants a part in it.

But he has to convince his father, who wants to see his son become a doctor -- and prove it is more than just wanting to hunt bears and the big cats -- more than just embracing the joys of outdoor life, of camping beneath the open stars!

Can they risk giving in to the attraction between them while their lives are on the line? If widowed seamstress Nell Armstrong has to make one more pair of boring chaps for the cowboys in her tiny Wyoming town, she might just quit the business altogether! So meeting Brand Nolte, a widower struggling to raise three girls on his own, seems like her dream come true. Brand has no idea how to dress the girls properly, and Nell finally has a chance to create beautiful outfits while also teaching the girls to sew. But Nell is much more than a seamstress, and the investigative skills and knowledge she picked up alongside her late lawman husband soon become critical when a wounded stagecoach-robbery survivor is brought to town. As danger closes in from all sides, Nell and Brand must discover who has a target trained on them before it's too late. "A richly detailed adventure that captivates till the end."--Publishers Weekly on Forged in Love