When ex-marshal Morgan Keen got news that hi s son, the Sweetwater Kid, was to hang for murder, his first impulse was to break him out of jail. The only trouble was that the jail was in Tombstone, Arizona, and that meant leav ing his wife alone.

Young Gade Haggard rode south in search of a dventure, but ended up fighting a war during which he saw hi s brothers hanged for desertion. And now the man who gave th e fateful order is out to kill Gade. '

When ex-outlaw Bobbie Lee sees a rider approaching Beattie's Halt he know it means trouble. Hours later his innocent son is gunned down in the saloon and three more hard-bitten strangers have joined the gunman called Van Gelderen. But who are they? Two days later a second young man dies and the strangers leave town. But murder cannot go unpunished. Bobbie Lee, Will Blunt and his daughter, Cassie, pick up the trail outside Beattie's Halt. In the scorching heat of the desert old feuds are settled in a six-gun blaze.

When Kid Kantrell trails a cold-blooded killer from Indian Territory to the Texas Panhandle, he finds himself caught up in a bloody battle over a fertile valley.

When Daniel Sagger flees from his home, leaving his wife with her throat cut, his son Will can reach but one conclusion: his father was a callous murderer. But this was a crime so horrific it beggared belief, and when Will rides into town to talk to his friends, he discovers an ever-thickening web of intrigue. Why have men from Hole in the Wall been talking to his father? Who is the mysterious Amos Killin who has been plying his father with drink? What part do Beebob Hawkins and Texas Dean play in the mystery? Knowing that he must ride to Hole in the Wall to discover what lies buried in his father's past, Will Sagger heads out with gunsmith Jake Cree and Deputy Slim Gillo. They are destined to ride through hell and to face desperate outlaws in a blazing, bloody climax.

When a planned bank robbery in Drystone City results in the death of the owner's wife, Cage turns his back on lawlessness and heads home. But when he arrives in the border town of Nathan's Ford, he has been followed by his nemesis and rides into tragedy. With his family's ranch burned to the ground, and his parents and brother murdered by Mexican rustlers, Cage - aided by childhood friend Velvet Goodwine and reluctant bank owner Milton Guthrie - sets off in pursuit of the killers. A confrontation with the rustlers leads to the unmasking of the man behind the deaths, and a bloody finale which leaves Cage fighting desperately for his life, and the lives of the only friends he has left.

Texas Rangers Jack Carson and Eddie Brand have been hunting outlaw Lope Gamboa for some time without success, but when they ride into Yuma it seems their luck has changed. An assignment of US gold is to be transported along the Oxbow route by Conestoga wagon and the Rangers are convinced that Gamboa will attempt to steal the gold. As all factions close in on the lumbering Conestoga wagon, the trail leads inexorably to a bloody climax in the Gila desert...