The first in a new series featuring an avenging agent appointed by President Grant to settle scores and see that all is right in the West. Zak Cody, son of a wily prospector and an Apache maiden, is thought to have retired as a colonel serving under General Grant, but in his transition to Presidency Grant has appointed this war hero to the role of enforcer and avenging angel of America's untamed regions. Now "the Shadow Rider" and his ebony steed Nox patrol the west assuring that wrongs are righted and those of ill will meet their maker. Heading for a rendezvous at an Army outpost in Arizona he comes across wagon train savaged by Indians and a young woman in need of saving, but not all is as it seems. Dark forces on all sides work to insight genocide and claim the land, and all its riches, as there own.

Welcome to Wolf Creek. Here you will find many of your favorite authors, working together as Ford Fargo to weave a complex and textured series of Old West adventures like no one has ever seen. In the first part of our Christmas anthology set, several new people come to town and enter our saga, just in time for Christmas. ROMAN HATCHETT (Jory Sherman), a world-weary trapper; PHOEBE WRIGHT (Meg Mims), a tireless reformer; GIB NORWOOD (Jacquie Rogers), a dairy farmer with a mixed-race family and a habit of annoying the thuggish cowhands of evil cattle baron Andrew Rogers. Among our regular cast, CHARLEY BLACKFEATHER (Troy D. Smith) parleys with Kiowa leaders on Christmas Eve, deputy marshal QUINT CROY (Jerry Guin) tries to soften the hearts of Wolf Creek's hardest citizens, and livery owner BEN TOLLIVER (James J. Griffin) gets several big holiday surprises...

From Spur Award-winning author Jory Sherman comes the first two novels in his acclaimed Shadow Rider series-now in one volume BLOOD SKY AT MORNING Retired colonel Zak Cody has been appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant to the role of enforcer in America's untamed regions. Now "the Shadow Rider" patrols the west, assuring that wrongs are righted by any means necessary. When the Apaches come under siege for murders they didn't commit, Cody's mission is to find the truth-and to kill those who started this bloody chaos...even if it means laying down his own life. APACHE SUNDOWN Zak Cody is on the trail of the gold-seeking killer who made him an orphan. But while he's taking down his adversary's hired guns, their leader, Ben Trask, continues to elude him as he brews a poisonous stew of betrayal, death, and lies in a plan that will bring about the slaughter of a proud, native people. Now Cody must battle numerous obstacles to reach the one man who might help him prevent a massacre-the warrior named Cochise. "Sherman knows how to make a western gallop." -Publishers Weekly