Terrell L. Bowers

The Chinese community usually relied on the powerful tongs to dispense protection and punishment, but when hundreds of Chinese workers began to disappear without a trace, Kim Lee contacts US Deputy Marshal Reese Corbett. It falls to Reese, along with a half-Chinese interpreter and a rambunctious mountain man, to find out who is behind the disappearances. Increasingly, all trails lead to the dangerous and isolated hills of Snake Canyon.

How hard could it be? Morgan Royce and his younger brother only have to bring back a banker's runaway wife and collect the five-hundred dollar bounty. But something else is going on. And their prey is neither predicable nor rational. Her escape route defies logic and it becomes clear that getting away is not her first priority. Meanwhile, Shilo has been protecting the banker and doing his dirty work for some time. When he discovers Selene had not simply ran off, the banker dispatches Shilo and a couple of his pals to follow after the Royce brothers. After Shilo informs him that they are closing in on his wife, the banker calls off Morgan and cancels the reward. The new deadly bounty will be paid only upon Selene's death

The rubber boom brought untold millions of dollars flowing into South America. People flooded from all over the world to cash in and get rich on the black gold. Yet, when greed is unleashed, humanity suffers - and often it is the lowest class of people who pay the ultimate price. Justina King ventures across the ocean to seek out the father who deserted her and her mother a decade before. She hoped to discover why he had not returned from South America and dreamed of a affable reconciliation. The dream, however, quickly becomes a nightmare, one filled with brutality, deceit, murder and all manner of inhuman savagery. Stranded in a foreign land, pursued by a powerful rubber baron, Justina realizes her mistake too late. Unfortunately, her only ally is a man who hates her very name

For Dave Brenteen, it was like standing between the branding iron and the fire. A killer was running loose, a man deemed the Night Prowler, had attacked four unsuspecting women and had murdered his lifelong friend. On the flip side, after killing Hyde Spangler's son, the man had vowed to have blood vengeance. Toss in a woman he had loved, but married his rival; a school teacher, who just might mend his broken heart; and accepting the job of deputy to the town sheriff he had known for years. How hard could it be to sort out all of the problems without ending up dead? Spook on the loose, Hyde's vow to kill him, a jealous ex-rival, and a sought-after school marm - it seemed more than one man and one gun could handle.

Jess Logan didn't intend to gain a reputation as a notorious bounty hunter; he didn't intend to end up trapped at a trading post for the worst blizzard in the Missouri Valley; and he didn't plan on acquiring a bad-medicine girl, given to him by some thankful Indians. Lastly, he didn't intend to wind up at Lakota Crossing about the time a bunch of bandits showed up to rob a large payroll from the army. Then again, the bandits didn't intend to run into Jess Logan and his guns either. When the shooting stopped, who would remain standing?

Author Amy Cole wants more than to write a story - she wants to live one. Her chance comes when she's asked to help to clear a doctor of murder. Amy's investigation takes her to Little Babylon, a private fortress in the wasteland of New Mexico. Meanwhile, Whitney Scott meets Amy while on the trail of a band of killers who attacked his ranch. They opt to work together, but Whitney faces an unknown assassin - and Amy's priority, over solving the murder, is for them both to stay alive

The war between the Union and the Confederacy had ended, but the fight is not over for the Kenyon family. Being Yankees, their presence in Three Forks, Texas, is met with hostility and resentment. Dave Kenyon defies the odds and tries to court a local girl. Then he is forced to kill the cousin of a deadly bandit leader, Angel Gervaso, who vows revenge and sends his gang to burn Three Forks to the ground. The Union boys and pro-Confederate populace must now rally together against an unbeatable force

When a simple job turns out to be a death ride for Lucas, he's rescued by Daniel Books, a half-Cheyenne, and Lucas's life is changed forever... In the midst of an impending Indian war, Daniel helps Lucas to find the men who'd robbed and shot him, leaving him for dead. Meanwhile, Iris Ducane has captured Lucas's heart, but Captain Bagot, from the nearby fort, would kill Lucas to win her hand

Dace Kelly is released from prison on the condition that he helps the warden's sister save her ranch outside Tolerance, Colorado. He and the Professor, who is also being released, ride there together. But Dace faces problems aplenty: the warden's sister doesn't want him there, a gunman wants to test his skill and a powerful rancher is after the lady's ranch. Then someone wants the Professor dead. Dace would have been a whole lot safer staying in prison

It didn't sound dangerous. Lou Ryderson's mission was to get proof that an Indian agent was cheating the Indians out of their government-issue supplies at the Wind River Reservation. But Lou runs into trouble when Running Elk's bride-to-be, Kim, is kidnapped. To keep the war chief from leaving the reservation, Lou must steal the girl back. But when Lou, the gun-happy kidnappers and a rescue party all wind up on Lost Mesa at the same time, the air is filled with flying lead. Lou and Kim will be lucky as hell to escape with their lives

The term blood money was never more appropriate than when applied to the lowly vermin who sold rifles to the Indians. Clay Valenteen's job is to make sure a shipment of stolen rifles doesn't end up in the hands of a band of renegade Apaches. However, a fatal brawl aboard a steamship and a close-mouthed stowaway nearly ruin his cover. Clay must use all his wits and skill with a gun or end up a permanent resident of Yuma's boot hill

When Sandy Wakefield, Flint's uncle, dies in a mining mishap, Flint and Johnny Wakefield suspect foul play. Sandy was trying to improve the miners' lot, who work long hours in dangerous conditions for a pittance. Then Flint and Johnny discover the stripped body of an unknown man and seek to learn his identity. But life above ground gets as dangerous as below. Ultimately, it seems, Flint will have to die before there can be a Reckoning at Orphan Creek

They appeared out of the night, dark shadows on a deadly mission. Each of their victims suffered a violent and horrible death. Dorret Keene is sent to discover the perpetrators, but before he arrives at his destination, he kills a buffalo hunter. Not only do the man's kin vow revenge, but also Keene is saddled with a child-bride and her unscrupulous drunkard of a husband. Finding the killers is like chasing a grain of sand in a dust storm. When the showdown finally comes, will Keen live to tell the tale?

Haunted by the past, Paul Warrick is assailed by bad memories, and in an attempt to forget, drifts from town to town finding work. But a shootout at a casino lands him in jail, and with the valley on the verge of a range war, Paul's actions might be the fire to light the fuse. Paul becomes involved in the final showdown - and he must not only save his life, but maybe his own sanity at the same time

Branded That's what the McCains were. After the womanizing father of five boys kills an upstanding citizen, the people of Rio Blanco not only hang him, but they condemn the offspring as well. Then Trace McCain saves Melanie Kendall, the niece of the man his father killed. The sparks that fly between them are not from hate, but from a mutual affection. With an unforgiving father, the romance is doomed ... until a gang of ruthless killers come calling. Threatened with the destruction of their town, the only hope of the people in Rio Blanco hinges on the very men they have ostracized. Trace and his brother, Charo, are the best prepared fighters in the valley. But their own resentment runs deep for their treatment. If the townspeople and old man Kendall don't come to terms with the McCains, the bandit hoard known as Eller's Marauders will wipe out every man, woman and child in Rio Blanco

Mac Avery had tamed the town of Dry Wells, Wyoming some time back. Yet, though he still owned the bank there, he was living a new life in the small town of Mona, in a neighboring state. Life had been good ... and peaceful in Dry Wells, until a small Syndicate moved in with an eye on taking over the valley and also Avery's bank. They were willing to kill Mac and his best friend, who managed his bank, to get what they wanted. Not killing Mac was their first mistake. When he returns to Dry Wells, he intends to even the score - no matter what the odds. Suffering an early setback, Dace Hollister arrives to stand at his side. The two of them make a formidable army, which is exactly what they will need to even the battle field

The new job in California sounded laid-back and peaceful to Mace Banyon, ex-deputy U.S. Marshal. He had been hired by an eastern land corporation to supervise and collect payments from tenant farmers. But the sharecroppers - honest, hard-working Chinese - all had bottomland farms with irrigation. They were both envied and resented by the dry farmers in the valley. Mace found himself caught between the hostile farmers and townsmen, who were headed by a vicious, land-grabbing banker, and the almost defenseless Cantonese workers. When a drought threatens crop failure, tension and violence increases. It isn't long before Mace Banyon's 'peaceful' job explodes into a killing war

Boone Lucane wasn't the fastest gun in the family, but no one could match him when it came to tracking or hunting. That's why he is chosen to rescue his eight-year-old cousin, Eric, when he's kidnapped. Even pairing up with Race Lucane - whose gun is almost as quick as his dry wit - there is little chance for the two of them to find anything on this dangerous mission, except a quick death. Not only do the bandits have a week's head start, but they get into trouble before reaching the border. Death is at every turn, with Boone forced to use all of his skills, not only to survive, but to rescue and save the life of an unfortunate victim and prevent Eric from being sold into slavery and lost to the family forever.

The friction between the Danmyer family and the Gates had begun over jealousy, betrayal and the death of Zeb Gates. When Jerrod Danmyer decides to court Marian Gates he has more than the hate of her father to overcome. Hit with a plague of locusts and a hard, terrible winter, Marian is promised to another man to help save her family. Meanwhile, the farmers suffer murder, arson and ambush, driving many of them from their homes. Jerrod risks everything to prove himself worthy of Marian's hand and help save the farmers, but, to do so, he must survive both treachery and murder.

Kari Underwood, an investigative reporter, writes an expose' about fraud, but quickly finds her prospective respondent has died. The police write it off as an accidental death until a second victim dies in similar fashion. Is this related to her story or could it be something more sinister? Jason has his own crisis at the Sutton CID and leaves to join Kari, the love of his life, in the States. However, a cold-blooded killer is on his trail, seeking revenge for the death of his brother. Tracking down a serial killer, Kari must also cope with a stalker, while Jason is concerned that the deadly man on his trail could assassinate them both at any time. For most people, home is where the heart is. For Jason and Kari, wherever home is, it seems to be where the homicides are