After a rough run-in with a bunch of Apaches, Slocum is left without a horse in the hottest, driest place next to hell--West Texas. He stumbles into Eagle Pass looking for some relief. Yet it's the town that's relieved when Slocum shows up. Eagle Pass has a bully on the loose. The lazy deputy would rather lock up an annoying yet harmless bandito known as El Loco than the real criminal. But Slocum can't let that happen, not with El Loco's beautiful sister riding him. He'll see justice served, no matter how dangerous--or crazy--the task may be ...

Don’t fence Slocum in… After rescuing Jackson Wimmer from a gang of rustlers, John Slocum accepts the rancher’s offer of a job as foreman on the Bar-S Ranch. Between the drunken incompetence of the cowboys and his boss’s intemperate disposition, Slocum wonders if he made the right decision. Then when Wimmer is found murdered, Slocum learns the old coot thought highly enough of him to leave him the Bar-S in his will. But even as Slocum embraces his change in fortune, he knows he has also inherited Wimmer’s enemies…

Slocum's partner gets thristy—bloodthirsty! When Slocum and his herding partner, Billy Quince, end the life of a notorious cattle rustler, it's the young man's first kill. But it's far from his last as the infamous rustler leaves him with a mysterious—and murderous—legacy. Now it's up to Slocum to break the deadly spell.

The author of The Search For Temperance Moon delivers an absorbing and masterful novel of the American West. Spurred by the dream of land ownership, Boone Fawley and his family head to rugged Arkansas in 1808. Their fight for survival in a wilderness filled with Indians begins an enthralling adventure that spans three generations.