Walt Coburn

"Howdy Merchant was a nice, quiet guy who liked to live his own life in his own way. But he was never free from one soul-searching memory: the cold-blooded killing of his father by Black Mike Guzman. Years had gone by, and Howdy had worked endlessly to blaze his own trail. At the Muleshoe Bar Ranch, he had earned a reputation as the best cow-puncher in the country. He could have settled down and forgotten the past. But then he heard that Black Mike...

"Wade Morgan killed the town boss in a vicious gun-fight and knew he must make tracks -- fast. But he left his son Joe behind to make sure he got a fair deal. What he didn't reckon with, though, was the terrible revenge that Bull Mitchell's renegade crew decided to take -- a terrifying act that brought Wade Morgan back to town with a smoking gun and a heart full of hate."--

Pete's outlaw father has abandoned him to the crazed rancher Zee Dunbar. And Pete couldn't trust Zee's pretty wife, Tracy, either. She was too free with her attentions to too many men. He couldn't trust Montana law, which wanted to see him hang. He could only put his trust in the lightening fast draw of his six-shooter. But he was to learn that wasn't enough--that a man could save his skin yet lose his soul to a destiny far worse than death--if...