Preacher's son Sam Trego meant to follow in his father's footsteps - until he killed a man in a fistfight. From then on he was a pariah to his family, and so he set out to build a new life. Sam rode into Genesis looking for work and found a job as a preacher. But the last thing the town needed was a man of the cloth: a gang of violent renegades was terrorizing Genesis with kidnappings and murder. Forced to take arms, Trego started to clean up the...

"When Doyle Suskin of the Bearskin Ranch and three of his hands came tearing down the lane into the yard of Herman Howell's Running H, it looked like trouble. Suskin's words--"If you string one more strand of that devil wire, it will mean war"--confirmed it and warned Howell's gunman, Dave Logan, that he had to be set for action. Shortly afterward, Herman Howell was killed by two well aimed bullets, and the local sheriff was immediately pressured...

Dan Quint's stepfather, Judd Hurley, always meant trouble. When he married Dan's mother, Judd and his son, Blix, moved to the farm and took over. Dan - the target for Judd's meanest moods - had left the farm when he was seventeen, and his visits to his mother since then had been seldom. Now he was twenty-three, and he would take no more of Judd's bossing. Eastern Kansas hadn't changed. Neither had his stepfather. As Dan, seeing a rider galloping recklessly...