Captain Gus Rodgers of the Texas Rangers is dying—and before he goes, he needs Jim's help to free his grandson from a Mexican prison. Trouble is, the Federale general holding him wants the head of the boy's brother, Billy, who has already confessed to murdering the general's daughter. Gus believe...
It looked like any other homestead upon the grasslands: simple and efficient. Jake was still getting the lay of the land, the people who had migrated to it, who they all were and where they had come from. As town marshal, he didn’t have much reason to call on many of them who didn’t live right in...
The air buzzed with flies. “You liking it in there with those dead people,” I called at one point. “You’re going to join them, you don’t get your ass out here.” “I need your assurance you won’t shoot me if I come out,” he said. “I already told you, kid, I’m not here to kill you. I just come to ge...
He had wanted to call out to her, to tell her to come back to the bedroom and sit on the side of the bed so he could look at her, so he could touch her hand once more, or stroke her hair, which had been soft and fragrant and womanly. It was then that he realized that he did not know her name. &nb...