Olivia wants the 80 acres in far off Michigan that her father left to whichever of his offspring might choose to stake a claim to that land. As Olivia says, “I’m sprung off him just as much as Avis or Tobey.” The problem: she’s seventeen, female, and it’s 1841. Her childhood friend Mourning Free knows […]

In the quiet Kansas town he now calls home, Byron James works as a school teacher, far removed from the bloodshed of his younger years. But peace is a fragile thing, and James’s past is riding hard on his trail. Once a war hero turned cowboy, James made a single, tragic choice, which cost him […]

They burned his home, murdered his family, and thought the land would be theirs. They were wrong. In the rugged lands of Colorado, Anthony Hawk lives by two rules: take only what you need and keep the peace. A half-Shoshone gold prospector, he’s resisted every offer to sell his family’s land at Eagle Rock Basin, […]

At twelve years old, Flint McCrae buried his mother with his own hands after raiders tore through their Missouri homestead. From that day, he swore he’d never show mercy again. Seven years later, he has his father’s guns and a list of names. The men who killed her are nearly gone, one bullet at a […]

Edmund is the second son of Richard, Duke of York. Whisked away to Ireland as a child in troubled times, his best friend is his brother Edward, a year older, with whom his shares a special bond. Later, the family returns to England and the boys begin knightly training at Ludlow Castle, where they encounter […]