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Luke Jensen brings a body to Rio Rojo. After all, it's his job, and he's going to get paid. But before he can collect the bounty for killing a killer, two notorious criminals hit the Rio Rojo bank. Now Luke can't get paid unless he catches professional bandit Gunner Kelly and his Apache sidekick Dog Eater. Unfortunately, a would-be man hunter is after the money-toting outlaws, too, and young Hobie McCullough is mostly a menace to himself.

During the Civil War, Smoke Jensens's long lost brother, Confederate soldier Luke Jensen, is ordered to smuggle gold out of the city--but he ends up robbed and shot. Taken in by a Georgia farmer, Luke slowly recovers. Though he plans to rejoin Smoke, a budding romance with the farmer's daughter delays his departure--until a tragic event changes everything.

Mistaken for the outlaw Bloody Ben Bledsoe, wealthy Conrad Browning--aka "The Kid"--is captured and thrown into prison. Determined to clear his name, he teams up with a fellow inmate and escapes. But even out of prison, The Kid knows he can't trust anyone--and that any day could be his last.

Seems like every time Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack turns over a rock, a Black Valley Rider jumps out. So when two bounty hunters arrive in Minton Hill trailing the same outlaws, Sam agrees to ride with them. Trouble is, only a drunken gambler called Tinnis Lucas knows where the gang is holed up-a dead man's land called Black Valley.

Back in high school, Jackson Raines was humiliated by the beautiful Sarah Allen, who wanted out of Wind Canyon at any cost. Now Jackson reluctantly opens his ranch to the recently widowed Sarah. And as sparks ignite, he finds himself protecting her from her dead husband's shady business partners.

The family Jensen lands squarely in the crosshairs of a railroad tycoon trying to run the iron horse through Paiute territory. To protect the land, three honest men will face half a hundred hired guns--impossible odds, unless you're a Jensen.

Known by both the lawful and the lawless as "The Teacher," War veteran and former schoolmaster Sherman Dahl sells his services to those seeking justice--and is relentless in his pursuit of wanted men.

Machart pens this critically acclaimed collection of 10 nuanced tales. The characters in Machart's affecting fiction find themselves attempting to measure up to their own beliefs in what it means to be a man, even as they struggle and often fail to be good providers, to protect their wives from violence, and to shield their children from life's brutality.

With his father's rodeo legacy to continue and a prosperous spread to run, Walker Parrish has no time to dwell on wrecked relationships. But country-western sweetheart Casey Elder is out of the spotlight and back in Parable, Montana. And Walker can't ignore that his "act now, think later" passion for Casey has had consequences. Two teenage consequences! Keeping her children's paternity under wraps has always been part of Casey's plan to give them normal, uncomplicated lives.

The Way of the Coyote completes Kelton's saga of the Texas Rangers. Filled with the drama of frontier conflicts, this gripping book focuses on the adventures of Ranger Rusty Shannon after the Civil War.