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Elizabeth travels to 1875 Colorado to take pictures she hopes will make her the D.C. Chronicle's new photojournalist. But when her life is threatened, a buckskin-clad Southerner named Daniel takes Elizabeth and her godly assistant on a perilous and revealing journey.

Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Ruby's not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his efforts to win her heart--even if Ruby is his brother's widow. Soon, all three learn that building a better future means first making peace with the past.

Rough-and-tumble cowboy Hutch Carmody is not exactly the type to come home for family dinner. Or is he? After making peace with his half-brother and inheriting half of Whisper Creek Ranch, Hutch sets his sights on kindhearted divorcée Kendra Shepherd. But even with his newfound wealth and rugged good looks, Hutch finds that Kendra is frustratingly immune to his charms.

The most unsettled of the "no-account Raines boys," Devlin Raines has long been protecting his heart from injury. But his latest case - and client - forces him to lay everything on the line--Back cover.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Fast Lawrence Shaw is enjoying some solitude for a change--but it's sorely disrupted when an elite businessman asks him to defend his mining venture from the Cut-jaws gang. Soon Shaw is caught in a desperate battle that will send many a man to his grave.

Matt Jensen is in the deadly Texas town of Shady Rest. After Jensen guns down a ruthless killer in self-defense, he's suddenly in line for a $5,000 bounty. Trouble is, the dead man's kin aren't too keen on Matt staying alive to collect.

Preacher, Smoke, and Matt Jensen are reunited in a clash of cultures and a brutal all-out fight for justice.

They are strangers in a strange land--a band of German immigrants trespassing across the Jensen family spread. Led by a baron fleeing a dark past in Germany and accompanied by a woman beautiful enough to dazzle young Matt Jensen, the pilgrims, as they have come to be known, are being pursued by a pack of brutal outlaws hungry for blood, money, and just about anything else. The Jensens are willing to help them get to the promised land of Wyoming, but they're doing so without knowing the whole story about their new friends.

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.