"Men are optional. That was the credo Emma Chandler's suffragette aunts taught her and why she started a successful women's colony in Harper's Station, Texas. But when an unknown assailant tries repeatedly to drive the women out, Emma is forced to admit they might need a man after all. One who can fight. And there is only one she trusts enough to ask. Malachi Shaw has finally earned the respect he's always craved by becoming an explosives expert for...

In Texas Hill Country after the Civil War, 17-year-old Mick forms an unexpected alliance with a Mexican girl who's determined to kill the long-lost relative Mick is searching for.

"It starts with an unusual request: 'On this trip there will be no cussing, no drinking, no gambling, and no loose women.' No problem. Or so Red Ryan thinks--until he meets the passengers. They include four holy and silent monks, one beautiful lady tutor, and a drunken, washed-up gunfighter. Even worse, they're crossing the wild Texas hill country where bloodthirsty Apaches are on the loose and a mad-dog killer is on the prowl. But that can't compare...

Zane Grey first presented this brilliant story of the West in a much shorter form as a magazine serial in 1914. Readers were thrilled and greeted it as another masterpiece from one of the West's greatest storytellers. The manuscript would suffer at the hands of Grey's book publishers, however. They took the second half of the story, deleted characters, changed the hero's name, and pasted it with the first half of another Grey manuscript to produce...

"Crockett Legend has always loved Paisley Mahone, but a family feud sure can ruin a romance. When her father turned against the powerful Legend clan, she took her family's side and broke Crockett's heart into pieces. Now her father's dead and Paisley and her last remaining brother are convinced the Legends are to blame. If only he can find a way to prove his innocence... A chance meeting throws the two warring hearts together, and when their train...

"Red Ryan should've known this job would be trouble. The first stop is a ghost town--in a thunderstorm--and the cargo is a coffin. But things start to look a little brighter when Red and his stage guard Buttons Muldoon deliver the corpse to a ranch run by the beautiful Luna Talbot--and her gorgeous crew of former saloon girls. Luna asks the boys to help them find the Lucky Cuss Gold Mine, using a map tucked inside the dead man's pocket. Buttons can't...

"Duel McClain has lost everything he's ever loved. But when a strange twist of fate leaves an innocent little girl in his care, Duel vows to defend his new family to his very last breath. If only he knew a single thing about taking care of babies. Jessie Foltry is hungry, tired, and running for her life. In exchange for Duel's protection, she promises to stop running and help care for the child. Jessie swears she'll never trust a man again, but Duel...

"It begins with a spectacular train robbery--a brilliantly planned, brutally executed heist masterminded by a shadowy gang of conspirators with far deadlier motives than money or gold. Their mission: to steal the train's shipment of powerful explosives. Their goal: to assassinate Mexico's legendary resistance leader Benito Juarez--at a small stagecoach station owned and operated by the O'Malley family... As a lifelong patriot himself, Joe O'Malley...

Pecos Smith was the best horseman, the best shot, the best man with a rope that ever rode out of southwest Texas. That was all anyone really knew about him. But in six-gun country, west of the Pecos, people figured he would be useful to have around so no one asked questions.

It is the eve of the Civil War, but the ranchers of the Rio Grande Valley are already fighting--amongst themselves and with the fierce Apaches. Martin Baron finds himself in battle against his own neighbor, Matteo Aguilar, and must fight daily to keep his family safe. Martin's proud and heart-sick son Anson, must leave leave all he knows and loves to head off an attack by an Apache chief against the ranch's settlers. But without his son at home to...