As far as the eye could see was a vast, empty horizon. Evie Teale had finally accepted that her husband wouldn't be coming home. Now she and the children were alone in an untamed country where the elements, Indians, and thieves made it far easier to die than to live. Miles away, another solitary soul battled for survival. Conagher was a lean, dark-eyed drifter who wasn't about to let a gang of rustlers push him around. While searching the isolated...

Rafter Crossing was a town building for an explosion between the cattlemen and the miners. Mike Shevlin was hired to stop the miners, but he also had an old debt he wanted to pay back with lead--not gold.