Billy Sundown, a Cheyenne Indian, was determined to return the young English woman to her home, so he took her from the blood bath that was the battle of Washita. But Billy, white educated, albeit with an Indian's temperament, was up against more than a tough trek to North Texas.

Going home is not always as easy as it sounds, as Rafe and Seth Laramie discover when they fall foul of an angry posse. Mistaken for a pair of bank robbers, they are forced to flee a hail of bullets and hide out in the town of Greybull. There, they encounter the enigmatic Mort Sangster and use his cunning to slip away from the posse unseen. But all is not as it seems. When the Laramie brothers follow Sangster to his cabin, they find themselves amongst outlaws who are plotting an elaborate crime. The outlaws invite the brothers into the fold...but what bloody battles lie ahead if they choose to go along for the ride?

Collects works with a rock music theme from various authors, including Sherman Alexie, T.C. Boyle, Roddy Doyle, Pagan Kennedy, and Tom Perrotta.

Richard Mason travels to New Mexico to pastor a small church. Trouble finds him when he foils a stagecoach robbery. Kidnapped before he can preach his first sermon, rescued by Amber Logan, a beautiful vigilante, desperate to make it back to Casa Nueva alive, Richard learns someone has big, bad plans and Richard is in his crosshairs. Why is Bank President Lawrence Jacobsen so interested in his old Bible? It might be worth Richard's life to find out.

Exploring the diverse landscape of American life, the stories in Blues and Trouble: Twelve Stories capture the lives of people caught between circumstance and their own natures or on the run from fate, from a Jewish couple encountering a dealer in Nazi memorabilia to the troubled family of a Gulf Coast fisherman awaiting a hurricane. Tom Piazza’s debut short story collection, originally published in 1996, heralded the arrival of a startlingly original and vital presence in American fiction and letters. Set in Memphis, New Orleans, Florida, Texas, New York City, and elsewhere, the stories echo voices from Ernest Hemingway to Robert Johnson in their sharp eye for detail and their emotional impact. New to this volume is an introduction written by the author. Drawing themes, forms, and stylistic approaches from blues and country music, these stories present a tough, haunting vision of a landscape where the social and spiritual ground shifts constantly underfoot.