the unwanted request brought by Sheriff Reach had, he hated to say it, "rattled him to some degree." That "old man," rising up once again inside himself, that prodded him to ride that trail all those years ago, would not let him be. That internal drive that causes a man to take the bull by the horns no matter what the odds, when opposition to what is right and good is born. Resolving to throw iron quickly if need be, with no thought in mind but to get the job done. It didn't matter how far he ran, he could never run away from himself. When he rode that now obscure trail, hunting down desperados, he was known as the best there was. Days and weeks of trail dust with no sleep, never giving fleeing felons opportunity to rest. Doggedly pursuing until there was no longer anywhere to hide, he would bring them in either sitting upright or lying across the saddle. He didn't much care one way or the other. He could give as good as they gave. They could have it easy or hard, didn't matter to him. Business was business, however they wanted it, he could give it to them, straight up and with no remorse.... All this reminiscing certainly wasn't helping to bring peace to his troubled mind. He thought that perhaps a lonely ride into town might help soothe it. He needed to be alone with his thoughts and sort things out without any outside interference.

A man bent on revenge. A woman determined to survive. A land that knows no mercy. WELCOME TO THE OUTLAW TRAIL. When Kate Winters is left stranded in outlaw country, she knows she won't make it out alive...until she stumbles across a ruthless gang hanging a cowboy for his cattle. She waits until the outlaws are gone, desperate enough to claim the dead man's horse to make her escape—only to realize he's not dead after all. Those outlaws should have made damn sure Luke Bowden was good and gone. Now he vows he'll have his revenge no matter the cost. But they're miles away from the nearest town, and the woman who saved his hide won't survive the ride back. He owes her his life—he owes her everything—and it doesn't take long before he's faced with a choice: stand by his savior...or claim his revenge? All the best western historical novels are full of: brave heroes and romantic outlaws, gunfights and a desperate bid for survival, a dusty trail and a land that stretches on to meet the horizon...

Ira Sparks had pretty much lived his entire existence on the hard edge of life. Come what may, he had always dealt with it in one way or another. He had had his share of deadly shootouts. He had clearly emerged the victor. It was not that he had lost his nerve. He had simply grown weary of the seemingly, ever on going chase. Permanent changes needed to be made. This time he was going to make those changes stick. More than once, he had heard circuit preachers declare that, "To every thing there is a season." "A time to be born, and a time to die." "A time to kill, and a time to heal." "A time to break down, and a time to build up." All he could really attest to is that he had already done the killing part. Some of it was necessary. Maybe not all, but certainly, the majority of it. Given all of the happenings over these past couple of years, Ira knew that the time had come to gather together, stones... and "build up." To repair the breach of what might have been... had he not been so fixated on law and order. He thought that he had attained that...

Ben Cowden is no swaggering lover. He is a horseman, a stubborn son of Arizona. But now Ben is getting his lessons in the amorous arts--from the most beautiful woman he's ever laid eyes on. Margarita Elias Odoms is the unhappy new wife of the ex-Texas Ranger hired by ranch boss Duncan Vincent to drive the Cowdens out of Arizona. When Ben crosses into Sonora to save Margarita from despair, love turns to war. With a missing shipment of hijacked gold on the loose, and his sister Eileen in trouble with a crazy family named Bonner, Ben is already fighting on two fronts. But trouble always comes in threes; now there is a price on Ben's head and he must battle to the finish with a tall Texan, full of all the evil and greed that had brought him into this unforgiving, proud land...

Set against the bitter frontier strife between Texans and the Comanche, Texas Rangers Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call battle Buffalo Hump, the enigmatic war chief, and Gus' long-time nemesis, Blue Duck.

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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Larry McMurtry comes the sequel and final book in the Lonesome Dove tetralogy. An exhilarating tale of legend and heroism, Streets of Laredo is classic Texas and Western literature at its finest. Captain Woodrow Call, August McCrae's old partner, is now a bounty hunter hired to track down a brutal young Mexican bandit. Riding with Call are an Eastern city slicker, a witless deputy, and one of the last members of the Hat Creek outfit, Pea Eye Parker, now married to Lorena—once Gus McCrae's sweetheart. This long chase leads them across the last wild streches of the West into a hellhole known as Crow Town and, finally, into the vast, relentless plains of the Texas frontier.