There’s a headstone with Longarm’s name on it… Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long has bullet-holed of every member of Nate Hathaway’s gang except for the no-good desperado himself, who’s high-tailed it to a town called Lodestone. The comely Caroline Thaxter is going to Lodestone too, to find her outlaw daddy. She welcomes Longarm’s company—with wide-open arms. Too bad Lodestone ain’t so hospitable. All the owlhoots who go there wind up dead. And even a good man like Longarm might not make it out alive…

A town with a bite that’s worse than its bark… Slocum reckons he won’t find anything but trouble in a town called Hangdog. And he’s right on the money. Slocum’s good buddy, David Mix, is in danger of losing his land—and his life. And he’s pointing his finger at his biggest rival. But when Mix’s competitor starts losing cattle and men, Slocum realizes that Hangdog is infested with more fleas than a mangy cur—and he’s just itching to pull the trigger on ’em…