Luke Coldiron comes to wild San Francisco during the gold rush to play highs stakes poker. Tom Gallatin, the white guard for Yang's Chinatown empire, falls in love with Yang's beautiful Chinese slave girl, Ging. When card cheats rob Coldiron and Yang sends his hatchet men to kill Tom, Luke, Tom and Ging must join forces to kill to survive.

Best selling author of COLDIRON TWO LIGHTNING GUNS-RIPPING APART AN OUTLAW EMPIRE OF SLAVERY, OPIUM AND MURDER They were two guns. One young. One old. Both deadly. Tom Gallatin was young in everything but the ways of violence. He had learned early to kill to survive in a land where the slow died fast. Luke Coldiron was a frontier legend, a name that struck sparks of fear among men who lived or died by their guns. Now Tom Gallatin and Luke Coldiron had joined forces against the most vicious gang that ever turned a wide-open town into a kingdom of crime. It was two guns against the most cold-blooded outlaw octopus that ever traded in human flesh for gold. Now it was a question of whose nerve and bullets would run out first.... "SAN FRANCISCO WHEN LAW WAS THE SIX-GUN...FAST AND VIOLENT ACTION!"-Library Journal

RITA-nominated author P. J. Alderman weaves present-day supernatural sleuthery with nineteenth-century intrigue in the first book of an enchanting new mystery series set in picturesque Port Chatham, Washington. Jordan Marsh left L.A. for the quaint Pacific Northwest town of Port Chatham in pursuit of some much-needed R & R. As the prime suspect in her cheating husband’s murder, she had been hoping to immerse herself in the restoration of the charming Victorian she’d just bought—and put all talk of homicide investigations behind her. But as she soon discovers, the coldest of cases cry out to be solved, too. For this old house comes fully furnished—with two garrulous ghosts who have a century-old murder of their own they’d like her to look into. Now, if Jordan can keep the L.A. police at bay, and sort through a suspect list of shady characters circa 1890, she might just clear a wrongly accused man’s name—and her own. From the Paperback edition.

THE FINAL NOVEL IN TODAY'S LONGEST-RUNNING ACTION WESTERN! Down on his luck in San Francisco, John Slocum takes a contract with the Central California Railroad. He's given the difficult task of locating a stolen shipment of silver worth over one hundred thousand dollars, but he catches a break when he discovers that the company's attractive secretary, Tamara, was an accomplice in the robbery. Too bad his employer would rather believe in the thief's feminine wiles than in Slocum's cold hard facts. Fuming mad and out of work, Slocum starts looking to let off some steam. But when Tamara offers Slocum a new job--finding where the rest of the robbers stowed the loot--he has a hard time saying no to the seductive crook, or to a change of fortune. Still, Slocum knows he has to keep his cards close to the chest, or else he might end up six feet under...

With an awesome list of stirring Westerns novels, F. M. Parker has won acclaim as a master spellbinder. In The Slavers, he has achieved a new personal best, bringing alive the high drama and true-grit realities of the Western past.The year is 1877. The scene is Mexico City. A young American, Ken Larraway, has come to study under the legendary master of weaponry, Louis Calleja.Larraway is forced to turn from student to slayer while trying to save his teacher from death in an unfair duel with the son of Ramos Zaldivar the most powerful caudillo in Mexico.With a handpicked killing crew from Zaldivar's private army on his trail and a bounty of a fortune on his head, Larraway flees north toward Texas, fighting his way through the rugged deserts and mountains where the only law comes out of a gun. There is no safety from Zaldivar's blood rage, and when Larrawy stumbles upon the town of Janos settled by a sect of polygamous Americans in a secluded, mountain valley, he finds not sanctuary but fresh danger.Zaldivar knows of this strange colony of Janos and has raided it again and again to feed his and other powerful men's appetite for young, fair women as slaves to their desires. The settler's last hope against Zaldivar's rapacious reach is Larraway's skill with a pistol. If he agrees to face off against the most feared gunfighter in the land, Ramos Zaldivar himself.Set against a background of Mexico on the brink of civil war between powerful Mexican caudillos and President Diaz, and revealing a little-known chapter of history in the lost colony of Janos, The Slavers combines authenticity with non-stop action and suspense. It is a thrilling reading experience.Author's notes from The SlaversJanos truly existed--for a few short years.The first United States law prohibiting polygamy was passed in 1862. Men with plural wives soon began to migrate south to settle in northern Mexico-a place they hoped would be a sanctuary from persecution. Janos was settled in 1863. A second more stringent federal law was passe in 1882. The flow of polygamist into Mexico accelerated. An even tougher law was passed in 1887. The numberof emigres to Mexico grew greatly. In total, several thousand American men and women and their children, founded twenty settlements in Mexico.The bloodiest of Mexican revolutions began in1910. Battles between the opposing forces were fought almost everywhere. One million people were slain out a national population of fifteen million. Many rebel chieftains sprang into being during these times. Soldiers deserted the federal army and formed marauding bands. Bandits rode all over the back country.The American settlements, where each man had several wives, were prime targets for the large bands of men roving about the country. The gangs invaded the towns and raped the women, forcing "e;favors"e; as they called it. A rapid exodus of the American polygamists began. They streamed north, abandoning years of labor and fertile land, to settle in secluded valleys in the desert southwest of the United States.

In 1890s San Francisco, former Pinkerton operative Sabina Carpenter and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, tackle two seemingly unrelated cases that are complicated by two murders and the interference of Sherlock Holmes.