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London, 1759. After a high-society electric-eel party leads to a duel that ends badly, Lord John Grey feels the need to lie low for a while. Conveniently, before starting his new commission in His Majesty's army, Lord John receives an urgent summons. An old friend from the military, Charlie Carruthers, is facing court-martial in Canada, and has called upon Lord John to serve as his character witness. Grey voyages to the New World--a land rife with savages (many of them on his own side) and cleft by war--where he soon finds that he must defend not only his friend's life but his own.

Comely Alexandra Douglas is in London, reeling from news of her father's death--and of her disinheritance. Posing as a librarian, Alex infiltrates her former home, where love awaits in the form of her stepbrother's friend, the Honorable Peregrine Sullivan.

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.

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.

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, return to their Virginia plantation, but their once-grand home has lost its lustre. Jo's father and brother are dead, and the war has left her remaining brother broken and embittered. Bonding with Lizzie, one of the few remaining servants, Jo struggles to rebuild her life--and her faith in God.

In 1890s Boston, Lydia Pallas' skills as a translator get her noticed by the dashing Alexander Banebridge, who has a trove of documents he can't decipher. The only thing more alarming than the information Lydia culls from these papers is her growing attraction to Bane. But when he draws the ire of dangerous criminals, Lydia must act fast to save the man who's captured her heart.

In 1962, Roger Morgan became the golden boy behind the Seattle World's Fair. Nearly 40 years later, he's a shoo-in for mayor. But when an ambitious journalist begins digging into his past, sordid details about his career come to light.