Only the Strong Survive When a faceless New York investor orchestrates a hostile railroad takeover, he unleashes a tidal wave of chaos across the West. His weapon of choice? Over a million dollars in counterfeit bearer bonds, crafted by a ruthless crime syndicate and peddled by a mysterious beauty with a knack for beguiling bankers. As the Texas & Pacific Railroad teeters on the brink, they enlist the notorious Allan Pinkerton to unmask the culprits. But the banks, bleeding from the fraudulent scheme, call on the Great Western Detective League to track down their stolen fortunes. Colonel David J. Crook taps his top men—Briscoe Cane and Beau Longstreet—to lead the charge. Alongside Pinkerton's sharp-eyed Reginald Kingsley and the dangerously seductive Samantha Maples, they race across the untamed West, from bustling railways to desolate deserts, in a high-stakes pursuit. As Kingsley and Cane match wits with a phantom bondsman,...

Justice rides a bullet in the shadow of betrayal. The year is 1878, and the fight for Colorado's Royal Gorge has ignited a war beyond the courts—a war fueled by greed, sabotage, and blood. Railroad tycoon Steven Atkins will stop at nothing to control the silver-rich passage through the mountains. When lawsuits stall on paper, Atkins hires Pinkerton to secure his right of way against a rival's claim. Behind the scenes Atkins engages El Anillo assassins for hire to eliminate rival investor Eli Chorus. Bullets fly when Great Western Detective League operative Beau Longstreet thwarts one of El Anillo's killers and becomes the only witness to a conspiracy with lethal reach. Hunted by professional assassins and haunted by the weight of what he knows, Longstreet must race against time to expose the truth and protect the woman he loves. In a land where betrayal is currency and survival demands nerve and steel, The Great Western...

The Pinkerton Detective Agency had a competitor. Who knew? Wanted Sam Bass introduces the Great Western Detective League and a colorful cast of law enforcement professionals operating across the west in the late eighteen hundreds. Sam Bass launches his outlaw career in 1877 with high stakes stage and train robberies. Wells Fargo and Union Pacific want Bass and his gang. Crafty bounty hunter Briscoe Cane takes the case for the league. Pinkerton assigns agent Beau Longstreet. While Cane dogs the gang's trail, Longstreet entertains ladies with information on Bass. With a hefty stack of reward money at stake, Cane and Longstreet match wits to bring down Bass in a winner-take-all race to a bloody showdown in a dusty Texas town.

Paul Colt captures the greed, cunning and vengeance that ignited the Lincoln County War and launched Billy the Kid's outlaw career. Powerful merchant and political strong man James Dolan owns Lincoln County, until a brash young English businessman named John Tunstall hits town. Dolan controls a lucrative market in stolen cattle, protected by a corrupt sheriff beholden to him. Tunstall undertakes business enterprises and land speculations that threaten to topple Dolan's grip on the county. The Englishman aligns with lawyer Alexander McSween and cattle baron John Chisum, principal victim of Dolan's trade in rustled cattle. Dolan places the matter of the English upstart in the hands of his sheriff. Then Tunstall is murdered and the fury of the opposing forces can no longer be contained...

A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt examines the 130-year-old controversy over Sheriff Pat Garrett's claim that he killed Billy the Kid on July 14, 1881. John Poe, Garrett's deputy on the scene that night, and others question Garrett's claim. They suggest he killed the wrong man and covered it up. The controversy persists because there are contradictions, irregularities and unanswered questions about those events that simply won't go away. A Question of Bounty: The Shadow of Doubt follows Billy the Kid's outlaw adventures and unlikely young love affair to John Poe's version of that fateful encounter with Sheriff Pat Garrett. The story concludes with the life of a mysterious stranger that begins three weeks after the Kid's reported death.

A young couple leaves Ohio for the promise of a new life on the Kansas plains. They settle a prime tract of farm land near Lawrence, Kansas. A second young couple slips the bonds of slavery in Missouri. Circumstance brings them together. Set against the backdrop of a nation divided over the issue of slavery, the young settlers fight to hold their land and realize the future that unites them. Opposed by powerful forces they face human treachery, hostile Indians, prejudice, and a bloody, burning prelude to war as they battle to hold a hard-won home and fulfill the promises of their future. Sycamore Promises is a sweeping personal saga told with attention to history so as to both entertain and inform.

An anonymous New York investor sets in motion a hostile railroad takeoverfinanced by more than a million dollarsin counterfeit bearer bonds issued by arival railroad. The work is carried out by a ruthless, ultra-secret crime syndicate using an enigmatic beauty hired to beguile unsuspecting bankers while passing the bogus paper. The Texas & Pacific Railroad turns to Pinkerton to stop the fraud while victimized banks retain the Great Western Detective League to recover their losses. Colonel David J. Crook assigns the case to ace operatives Briscoe Cane and Beau Longstreet. Pinkerton partner Reginald Kingsley is joined by seductively talented agent Samantha Maples in a pursuit that races across the west and southwest, riding the rails from one exciting encounter to the next. Kingsley and Cane match deductive wits to out smart the mysterious bogus bondsman. Maples and Longstreet engage in a friendlier match with neither taking their eye off the prize. Syndicate muscle resorts to...