A knock at the door interrupts Stuart Brannon's fortieth birthday party. Standing on the doorstep is a twelve-year-old Indian boy with a shocking announcement: Brannon is his father! The boy also brings the sad news that his mother, whom Brannon befriended at Broken Arrow Crossing, is dying in a Navajo camp. Brannon determines to bring her back to the ranch, but decides to wait and see her before telling Littlefoot the truth about his parentage--that his real father was an outlaw. Danger s...

In the high-flying, high-stakes world of New York book publishing, Atlantic-Hampton figures it has a sure bestseller. The novel, based on fact, holds a surprise ending--two pages of treasure maps to an actual hoard of gold. But just as the book is ready to go to press, the unthinkable happens. The final chapter simply vanishes. Editor Lynda Austin turns up one clue--a Fed Ex package addressed to U-Bet, Montana. But the trail of the missing chapter is about to get mighty bumpy, with trouble...

Tap Andrews knows that to stay alive in the Old West he needs three things: a fast horse, a quick hand, and enough smarts to know when to get out of town! Pepper Paige is sick and tired of fighting and emptiness that surround her as a dance-hall girl. And tired of fearing Jordan Beckett, a violent patron who has turned his attentions on her. Pepper gets her chance to escape when an injured woman in a stagecoach wreck dies in her room. The stranger, a refined and educated Christian, informs...

Nobody steals Stuart Brannon's cattle...not even a military man with his own private army. Stuart Brannon battles cattle rustlers, befriends Apaches, and feels his heart stir for a beautiful woman he much admires. Will she get Brannon to lay to rest the ghost of his dead wife? Or will he continue to mourn? This time Brannon heads south of the border to buy cattle for his ranch. But he finds the cattle rustled and their owner murdered. Brannon comes up against something a lot bigger than ju...

Onepenny is exactly the kind of horse Nathan dreamed of owning. He's smart, loyal, and easy to handle. What's more, this unusual horse with the spotted rump can do tricks. So Nathan works out a trade with Onepenny's owner, Temple Cholach. To his delight, the spotted horse becomes his.Before he can even show his parents his new horse, Nathan encounters a posse looking for a stagecoach robber who had ridden a spotted horse. It seems Temple Cholach is not the drifter he claimed to be. ...

Stuart Brannon found gold! But the struggle to keep it could cost him his life. After months of digging in the mountains of southwestern Colorado, Stuart Brannon and Edwin Fletcher finally hit the mother lode. But someone else is after their claim. Under attack, they fortify the mine and ally themselves with three Ute Indians. Soon they find themselves fighting both a professional gunman and the powerful Colorado Southern Mining Corporation. In False Claims at the Little Stephen Mine, Bran...

It took a personal request from the President of the United States to put Stuart Brannon back in action. In 1905, at 58 years old, legendary lawman Stuart Brannon--now a rancher and widower--had no intention of leaving his beloved Arizona Territory to attend the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon. Then the telegram came: "Stuart, I need you in Portland. Tom Wiseman is missing. I think there's a cover-up going on. Tell folks you're going to the Exposition. Nose around...

It's 1880 and Catherine Goodwin has got to escape from her Virginia hometown. She heads west to marry a childhood friend. Race Hillyard heads west with vengeance for his brother's death on his mind. Fiery, opinionated, quick to react, they despise each other at first meeting. But can they team up long enough to throw the devil off the train?

Nathan T. Riggins panicked as he hurried from one empty building to the next. Where was everyone? How could everybody in a whole town just disappear?In the deserted Post Office, bags of unopened mail lay everywhere. With increasing dread, he looked through the stacks of letters. There it was--his own letter to his parents telling them he was coming. No wonder they hadn't waited for him here in Willow Creek. Now what should he do?Nathan set out across the Nevada desert in sear...

It's not a home on the range Pepper Paige is worried about. It's getting Tap Andrews to the altar on time and in one piece! In only two weeks Tap will tip his hat goodbye to bachelorhood. That should be enough time to take care of business and finalize wedding plans. But considering Tap's knack for finding trouble behind every tumbleweed, it may take him that long to deal with the growing hassles. A gang of rustlers invading his ranch. A missed bank payment he didn't know about. A sniper t...

Tap Andrews always managed to find trouble even though he tried his hardest to stay away from it. Fed up with his past, he's sick and tired of fighting off every gun-toting bounty hunter who wants to make some quick cash by dragging him back to the territorial prison in Arizona. He's innocent. He knows it. His fiancee Pepper Paige believes it. All he has to do is prove it. But Pepper isn't about to sit around doing nothing and let Tap go off to set things right without her. She's determine...

The Lewis and Clark Squad wasn't prepared for what teammate Cody Clark encountered in the River Canyon that day: an injured Chad Levine with his truck and money stolen. Could the unknown visitor who's come to town be to blame? Cody and his friends begin to put some pieces together when they spend the night at Chad's house. Through his telescoped they see suspicious people down by the river. They're even surer something's up when they hear a terrible noise--coming from the river. The kids c...