Gambler Jack Morton is persuaded to invest his winnings in buying the wagon and stock of a snake oil conman, and so reinvents himself as Professor Cornelius Murgatroyd's, purveyor of a miraculous cure for rheumatism, travelling across the West making a precarious living from the gullibility of others. But one day his life is disrupted when he goes to the aid of a dying woman whose wagon has been attacked by robbers, and makes a promise that he will take her baby son to safety with the chil...

For twelve year-old Brent Cutler, seeing his father lynched was the most powerful influence on his young life, giving him an abiding and life-long hatred of injustice of any form. As an adult, he returns to the town where he grew up as a representative of the District Attorney's office. He finds himself going head to head with the man responsible for the death of his father a decade earlier. There will be hard words and tough actions before Cutler can finally lay the demons of his childhoo...

Hohanonivah, a Cheyenne orphan, is taken in as a child by Patrick and Esther Jackson, who raise him as their own son. When, years later, his adoptive parents are brutally murdered, Hohanonivah swears a solemn oath that those who took the elderly couple's lives will die at his hands. The young man, whose name means "Whirlwind" in Cheyenne, tracks down the men who killed the Jacksons and find himself facing two of the most ruthless outlaws in the state. The Holt brothers are psychopathic kil...

It is 1866 and Colonel Thomas Sykes, late of the Confederate Army, is in Milledgeville gaol, waiting to be hanged, but he is pardoned and freed from prison, on condition that he helps find and release the president's niece, who is being held by a band of comancheros. This task proves to be far from straightforward and the colonel finds himself out of his depth when he is called upon to help assemble a number of Gatling guns which have been stolen from the army. Colonel Sykes will soon find...