Thomas Savage

This starkly elegant story details the lives of Emma Russell Sweringen and her family in the early 1900s. Emma's daughter Beth secretly gave up a baby girl for adoption many years ago. Now, Beth's secret life is being unraveled as her daughter comes looking for her long-lost family.

At first it seemed like an easy job. Just go to a small town near Tombstone and rescue the kidnapped son of a wealthy man. But that town turns out to be the base for a large gang of outlaws who don't want the boy rescued. It will take every trick that Preacher knows to pull this job off and escape with his skin. On top of all that, an Apache warrior bent on revenge further complicates things. Will Preacher be able to prevail against all odds?

Born in a falling-down shack in the wild backwoods mountains of Kentucky, the kid fled his tragic upbringing after witnessing and avenging the death of his sister. As he made his way across the country, the people he met, both good and bad, and the battles he had to fight, all shaped the kid into the man he was becoming. In that shaping he never, ever backed down from a fight. With fists or six-gun, he was ready to face any opponent.

When a band of outlaws takes over the bank and starts threatening local farmers while they wait to make a big score, a reclusive bounty hunter is recruited to try to help them. He's called Preacher. No one knows if that's a name or an occupation, but with his mustang named Jim and a huge Irish Wolfhound named Dog, guns are going to roar and blood is going to flow. Is just one man going to be equal to the task?

Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn occurred the same day lightning ignited the tinder-dry brush on the mountains above Tucson. Neither of those events should have been any concern to Boy Mora, a young professional gambler. Neither was he concerned about the men who were planning to rob the bank in Tucson. But when the sheriff asked Boy to get involved, Boy ended up more deeply involved than he ever wanted to be. Never mess with an honest man!...

Max Tyler was killed in the raid that saw his wife and young son kidnapped. But Max isn't about to let being dead stop him from getting them back. He will chase the kidnappers all the way across the country to retrieve them.He is just one against many. Help will come from unexpected sources, but will that be enough? And will it be in time? Time is something he doesn't have a lot of.Max Tyler was killed in the raid that saw his wife and young son kidnapped....