. Dennis Conroy is the owner of the biggest saloon in town, and he needs a few good sharpshooters to help protect surveyors laying out a route for a spur rail lie before his rival Hugh Thornton beats him to it.

. There’s just one problem: there’s more than one gang. Buckhorn's sleuthing uncovers a web of lies that brings into question everything he’s been told about the missing boy, the gang of rustlers, and especially Dan Riley, the gang’s leader. The Riley girl may have stolen a runaway boy’s heart but another gang is stealing the baroness’s cattle.

Less infamous but equally inhumane was a Yankee prison camp run by General Thomas Wainwright.Wainwright has seized control of Wagontongue, a township on the edge of the Arizona desert, and he rules it as brutally as he once ran the prison for Rebel POWs.

Most disheartening of all for Joan is the fact that Jim Cleve has joined Kells's gang." Joan Randle, in a spirit of anger, sends Jim Cleve out into the lawless country of the mining frontier in Idaho Territory to test his mettle as a man.

But a shattering discovery will reopen old wounds, and Caitlin's renewed investigation into the truth behind the bloody desert firefight uncovers a terrifying plot that reaches into every home and threatens the very core of the country..

But this time, outmanned and outgunned, even that may not be enough to keep Caitlin Strong—and the country itself—alive. Caitlin will learn, just as he did, that only strong justice can save the day.

The stakes are nothing less than the survival of America as we know it.

In the end, only the strongest of vengeance can win the day.The Present: Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds herself investigating the murder of the oil-rig crew that had found the long-lost wreckage of the Mother Mary.With the stakes higher than any she has encountered before, Caitlin races to find the connection between the secret treasure of the Mother Mary and the deadly secret hidden on the bottom of the ocean. The crew also uncovered something else beneath the surface of the sea--something connected to a terrorist attack about to be launched by a mad American-born cleric who has recruited an army of homegrown terrorists.

. There's a strong rain coming and only Caitlin and Cort Wesley can stop it.The Present: Fifth Generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong and Cort Wesley Masters both survive terrifying gun battles.That sets Caitlin and Cort Wesley off on a trail winding through the past and present with terrible truths dating all the way back to the Mexican Revolution and the dogged battle Caitlin's own grandfather and great-grandfather fought against the first generation of Mexican drug dealers.

.The Present: Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds herself pursuing another serial killer whose methods are eerily similar to the one pursued by her great-grandfather almost a century-and-a-half before.

As if that wasn't enough, she also has to deal with a crazed rancher whose entire herd of cattle has been picked clean to the bone by something science can't explain.

In her highest-stakes adventure yet, Caitlin Strong faces off against a host of adversaries that just might include the beautiful Comanche girl with whom the son of her ex-outlaw boyfriend Cort Wesley Masters has fallen in love, along with a mythic monster culled from Native American folklore that the tribe believes has risen to protect its land. The same toxin holds the potential to eradicate cancer.

1944: Texas Ranger Jim Strong investigates a triple murder inside a Nazi POW camp in Texas.To prevent an unspeakable cataclysm, Caitlin and Cort Wesley must win a war the world thought was over.

Caitlin and her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters must prove themselves to be as strong as steel to overcome a bloody tide that has been rising for centuries.

Caitlin and Cort Wesley may have finally met their match, finding themselves isolated and ostracized with nowhere to turn, even as they strive to remain strong from the heart. Just in time, since the same force that has taken over the opiate trade has even more deadly intentions in mind, specifically the murder of tens of millions in pursuit of their even more nefarious goals.

A mechanically inclined orphan who lives in the basement of a sanitarium is urged to “make new friends.It is 1880. England broke the Union’s naval blockade, and formally recognized the Confederate States of America. The American Civil War has raged for nearly two decades, driving technology in strange and terrible directions.

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Until the night she witnesses a murder that shatters her life—a life now under a police microscope—as their investigation threatens to uncover Calexa’s true identity….

And in that moment, something changed inside her.

Pulled from a frozen sea, pierced by arrows and close to death, Knot has no memory of who he was.

Astrid travels to Tinska to find answers for her friend, but the childlike vampire has old enemies who have been waiting for her return.Knot, his true nature now revealed if not truly understood, is haunted by the memories of others and is not the ally he once was. And beyond the Blood Gate in the northern empire of Roden, a Tiellan woman finds herself with a new protector.

One who wants to use her extraordinary abilities for his own ends.A new religion is rising, gathering followers drawn by rumors of prophetess Jane Oden.

Once believed dead and gone, Daemons have found a way back into the world. Meanwhile, the heretic sisters Jane and Cinzia Oden are beset by supernatural attacks.The Nine Daemons are on the rise.Free at last from the influence of assassins and emperors alike, the psimancer Winter sails back to her hometown--only to find a new trouble stirring.

The Nine Daemons are on the rise. And soon their allies, the vampire-girl Astrid and the former assassin Knot, must face the terrifying Black Matron.

..All parties converge on the capital city, Triah - Cinzia and the Odenites to establish their new religion and appeal against a charge of heresy; Knot and Astrid to find answers in the vampire girl's past; and Winter has come to conquer the city, at the head of a tiellan army.

But Winter is still struggling with her addictions and anger; Knot's efforts to be reunited with her can only lead to disappointment. Cinzia cannot free herself from a terrible bargain.

. The darkest night the Sfaera has ever known is about to end, but whether it ends in daylight or destruction remains to be seen.

Nothing is as it seems..Knot, still reeling from a shocking death, tries to put himself back together in time to fight.

Along with Smoke and Matt Jensen, the party bears down on Dodge, Kansas, to make a cattle drive back to Forth Worth. It's December 1890. Soon the drive turns into a deadly pursuit, then a staggering series of clashes with bloodthirsty Indians and trigger-happy rustlers.

Starving under a bitter, driving snow in the brutal, unforgiving Rocky Mountains, and surrounded by armed and desperate outlaws, Matt still dreams of making it home for Christmas.. But unless fate lends a hand, nobody will.