18 Stories of Suspense, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction from Michael Angel, bestselling author of 'Centaur of the Crime' and J.D. Cutler, bestselling author of 'Sagebrush & Lace'. Visit a world where a wildland firefighter must use his mysterious powers to save his crew from a roaring inferno. Follow an eco-tourist's frantic efforts to escape an African quarantine zone ravaged by a deadly virus. And tune into Texas station KRAP (don't touch that dial, there's KRAP on it ) as a pair of down-home country deejays try their damnedest to stop a murder...while they're still on the air. Short Stories Included: A Talent for Fire The Pusher's List The Most Wanted Woman Blood Heist My First Date with Jolene and her Cousin, Billy-Bob A Road Painted in Scarlet Never Mind the Princess, Save the Dragon Quarantine on the Black Nile Which Way to the Dragon Three Scars A Most Helpful Text Canteloupes and Wild Shoshone Slumgullion Sector I Got Some Bad Muse For You Shadow on the Sea Sharpest Tool in the Shed An Assassin in the Vatican Strangelets with a Side of Grilled Spam This volume also contains introductory chapters of Michael Angel's novel of fantasy and forensics, Centaur of the Crime.

Six guns, whips and wild, wild women 1876: Time to throw away the corsets and draw down on the Old West. When Horace Greeley said "Go West Young Man" he never would have thought that two young women would take his advice to heart. Striking out against all odds and risking everything to be together. Society calls them Sapphists. Chief Sitting Bull calls them 'Big Magic'. Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickok call them friends. Pinkerton's detectives want them alive. Clarke Quantrill's gang of outlaws want them dead. Two runaway women in a man's world risk their very lives to be together.