A case gone wrong sends Devon on a drunken ride to Nitika's side. Unwilling to accept the possible death of his partner, Devon spends his time at the ranch remembering the cases the he, Raven, and Nitika were involved in. Hunter didn't know about Nitika's life as a detective and was very interested in the stories. From her hiring by Allan Pinkerton himself to her own kidnapping, Nitika Brodie proved she could handle herself in any situation. Not only did she gain the respect of her fellow detectives, she proved a woman could do the job just as good as a man. If not better.

She's finally claimed her independence . . . how far will she go to keep it? A brilliant engineer, Jilly Stiles has been educated since childhood to help run her father's lumber dynasty. With the company safe from her stepfather after the marriages of her two sisters, Jilly can now focus on her dream of building a mountaintop railroad--and never marry. Nick Ryder came into Jilly's life when he saved her mother from her no-good stepfather, and he's prepared to protect Jilly from anything that threatens to harm her--as long as he keeps his heart from getting involved. But when a cruel and powerful man goes to dangerous lengths to make Jilly his own, she must make a decision between her safety and her hard-won independence.

This novel plunges the reader into the last agonizing years of the Civil War. Cattle from the Florida plains are needed to save a desperate South from starvation. But quicksand and snake-filled swamps, Yankee raiders, and vicious outlaws block the trails between Florida and the rest of the Confederacy. Men like Tree Hooker, tough as alligator hide and quick with gun, knife, or whip, reckon with Union forces and renegades when they take on the job of driving the herds.

Will is taken captive by a big rancher Major McKinney that wants his land in Colorado. He escapes with the help of the Major's daughter Elizabeth. They are pursued by Major McKinney and his hands to Arizona through Colorado. Liz and Will are married in Meeker, Colorado but later Elizabeth is captured by the Ute Indians while Will is away from camp. Still being chased by McKinney. He has many encounters with the Major and his hands, captured again but escapes and returns to Steamboat, Colorado where he has friends. He searches for Elizabeth but hears she's dead so he returns to Steamboat and goes to California with Bess, a rival of Elizabeth. McKinney hands follow him and catch up with him where there is a gunfight. He returns to Colorado with Bess. Elizabeth is rescued by the US Cavalry after being captive for a year and returned to her father who also thought she was dead. She has a confrontation with Will and Bess. Liz has been gone a year and returns with Will's son and is pregnant with an Indian baby.

Leah is a single female who headed west to become a pioneer. She encounters a lot more than she ever could have imagine. She falls for a rustic mountain man that takes her on wild adventures. She stands against renegades, the army, gunslingers, robbers, and more. The town never new a city girl could save their town. This is only the first book of many to come in this series. It's full of lies, murders, mysteries with a twist that will leave you wanting more and so much more. My books will always have the same peple, setting, and all. The whole town knows secrets about Leah and her devoted mountain man that you could never imagine. Even their own parents are in on the mysterious life they have among the Cheyenne Indians and the president of the United States. The trust is always an issue from the shy school teacher to the owner of the saloon.

Durango, Colorado, and Farmington, New Mexico square off against each other in a fight to control the general area in this tale, based upon actual facts. Each side is busy rustling cows and horses from each other's herds and blaming the other. But, Ike and Port Stockton of the Colorado faction are a little more liberal and sometimes grab available Colorado ranchers' stock for the butcher shop.

Ike is a good PR man and influences several Colorado newspapers to root for them, and for a time Ike is unbelievably described as a defender of justice against the New Mexico bad guys. But soon the axe falls; everybody gets their comeuppance. George Woods of the Colorado group and his story is played out against the backdrop of the frontier west, and his confused heart gets him into darker trouble than he can ever imagine.

As a wagon train heads to the American West in the late 1800's, a fast paced collision course develops between a fair maiden, a dashing new cavalry officer and a teenage indian brave, named Little Yellow Hawk. Violence, romance, treachery and danger lurk around every corner. Fort Washington and its inhabitants face an onslaught of emotional battles complicated by a sinister plot. Life and death decisions become more frequent as the indian attacks increase. Settlers are murdered, and seek refuge in Fort Washington as the action culminates in a final assault. Little Yellow Hawk is a hero of remarkable courage and honesty. He rises to the occasion, time and time again, providing the reader with an insight into the growth process and maturity that an indian brave confronts, and ultimately conquers.

Martha comes back to the city of her birth searching for answers to very troubling questions. She doesn't always like what she discovers, but she learns more about herself and her family. Martha kept her promise to bring a houseful of children to meet their grandparents. And, children will be children, causing such a commotion in the Montgomery and Campbell households. Their antics and mischief lighten up the stern upper crust mansions on market street and Beacon Hill. The third book in the Road of Courage series. This book continues Martha's Journey through life, learning as she goes along. Martha teaches us, as she copes with her own problems.

Jamie has been married for three years and lives in Urich, Missouri on a farm with her husband Henry and his two brothers. It is 1866 and life is simple, life is good. Jamie gets pregnant and her parents come to stay for the birth of the new addition to this small family. Life gets very interesting. It changes in ways she never dreamed of. This starts the story of life on the Missouri frontier.

She left home at nineteen to prove to her father, and other men, that she could do anything a man could do, and better. And she did. For three years, Skye-Blue Johnston has bounty hunted alongside her friend Clyde Daniels. She has brought in more outlaws than to be expected of a woman, and has made a living off it. Clyde and Blue (as she liked to be called) rode together until his death by an outlaw she and Clyde had been after. Blue had been devastated after his death, and took off on her own to the town of Silver City, Missouri. He was the famed outlaw, the Robin Hood of Liberty, Missouri. And he had the most feared gang of the west. For many years, Jesse James and his gang has terrorized banks, stagecoaches, and trains in the surrounding states of Missouri as a lifestyle. He has known loss, and has become a hard man for it. Having met the bounty hunter of Silver City in the Calico Saloon, his (along with his brother, Frank's and his cousin, Cole's) life is about to change. When these two forces meet, sparks fly and an electrifying bond is born. Throughout their obstacles, and meeting Billy the Kid and Johnny Ringo, they become inseparable. The outlaw and bounty hunter beat the odds that are against them and find out in the end that Love is the Ultimate Outlaw.

Chris is the sole survivor of a terrorist attack on an oil drilling rig off the shore of Chile. His identification is at the bottom of the Pacific along with his credit cards and cash. He will quickly learn the world has changed into a "cash only" paradigm. "By hook or by crook" is now the name of the game. As each person tries to find their own destiny some are successful while others find disappointment and more. Chris becomes part of the western U.S. as the citizens rebuild. Travel becomes more of a threat than adventure for the unprepared.

The year is 1895, and with the Civil War thirty years in the past, America is becoming a civilized place-except for the Wild West, where settlers still fight the elements and the natives. In Hankswash, Wyoming, word spreads that a tragic murder has set off a dangerous series of events that threatens to bring an angry war party, led by Young Lightning Streak, right to the city limits. The US Army has dispatched a force from Fort Laramie to protect the small town, but there's little hope that the soldiers can beat the rampaging Indians to Hankswash. The citizens must prepare for incoming battle, which likely means hiding as best they can. After all, how can a woman of the night or a telegraph clerk stand up to warriors bent on bloody revenge? Only one man could save them all ... Henry Webster Williams is a grumpy horse rancher who prefers it when the townsfolk of Hankswash stay out of his way-but death threatens to come to each and every front door, Henry's included. He was once a soldier in the Civil War, and although he despises the idea of killing again, old habits die hard. In order to save his family, his herd, and his own scalp, Henry will have to fight back-and it's gonna be a hell of a battle.

The Blue Ridge is of the Western genre which starts in the late eighteen hundreds in Texas and moves to Colorado. The Blue Ridge is on the northern side of the canyon carved by the Colorado River as it runs toward Glenwood Springs, Colorado. The story of the Buhler family and its feud with the Toms family runs throughout the story. After David Buhler dies his widow, Ruth, marries Dan Toms. After the first year of marriage Dan begins abusing Ruth and her two sons, Brett and Barney. The abuse reaches a point where Dan Toms beats Ruth so badly that the younger boy, Barney, puts a butcher knife into Dan killing him almost instantly. The older boy Brett buries Dan with all his belongings and no one else knows what has happened to Dan as Ruth is unconscious. Dan's disappearance festers with the Toms brothers especially the eldest, Sheriff Bob Toms, as he suspects that the Buhler boys knows what happened to Dan. Tom Mason, a retired U. S. Marshal, meets Ruth as she and the boys put their farm up for sale. The story moves at a rapid pace and has several romances laced through the story giving it spice. The five Toms brothers add excitement as does the goldmine adventures that both the Buhler/Mason and Toms family encounter.