Paul Lederer

A settler returns to the town he founded to burn it to the ground When Tom Quinn first came to the little patch of prairie that would become Stratton, it wasn't paradise, but it was close. The town he built there was beautiful in a humble way, an honest Western village where hardworking settlers came to make new lives. When Tom moved on, he left a happy town behind him. And then a man called Shelley Peebles came and turned it into hell. Backed up...

To forge a new trail, a cowboy ventures into a frightening wilderness Glen Wycherly's ranch holds two thousand cattle on ten thousand acres, and there is no one who knows the land better than Ray Hardin. But in all his years working for old man Wycherly and his ungrateful children, there is still one place that Ray has never been: an Apache stronghold just off Wycherly's property, where settlers fear to tread. Now the army claims that the area is...

Desperate for a kill, a mysterious hunting party invades a settler's land Years ago, Lee Trent did a favor for the Cheyenne, who rewarded him by setting aside a parcel of land where no man but he could hunt, trap, or homestead. He lived quietly in the shadow of the snowcapped mountains for years-until the day that a hunting party arrived from the East and turned his peaceful world upside down. The party is led by the bloodthirsty Baron Stromberg,...

Chased by bandits, stagecoach passengers race for their lives. Eleanor Gates is a long way from Baltimore. Love for a cavalry lieutenant has lured her across the western plains, to an outpost so remote that it can only be reached by overland stage. Accompanying her on this dusty, uncomfortable journey is her aged aunt, a leering salesman, and a mysterious stranger named Riley. As dusk falls, Eleanor spies a dust cloud on the horizon - a band of comancheros...

When a driver is killed, a young man takes the reins The stagecoach rumbles toward Yuma when Tom Quinn hears the war whoop. A dozen Apaches strike, hungry for blood. Their first volley finds the driver, forcing Quinn to drive with one hand and shoot with the other. By the time the attack eases up, he is down to his last bullet. As the Apache pull back, the horses bolt, and the wagon flips on its side. Tom is trying to get it upright when two more...

In the thrilling first installment in this genre-busting series, Spectros journeys to Mexican mining country to confront the conjurer who kidnapped his bride A narrow carriage rumbles through the treacherous mountains of Sonora. Inside, surrounded by countless books and pieces of scientific equipment, rides Dr. Spectros-the most brilliant magician of the Old West. For years, he has pursued the fiendish sorcerer Blackschuster, who long ago stole the...

On a tortuous cattle drive, a cowboy battles weather, Comanches, and his own men  The land is lush-but bare of cattle. Colonel Tremaine never expected his ranch's grass to come in so thick, and with his health failing, the old soldier lacks the strength to assemble the kind of herd that could take advantage of nature's bounty. He reaches out to Kirby McBride, an old recruit from his army days, and begs him for a favor. Once, the colonel saved Kirby's...

In the barren Sonora desert, a thirsty drifter makes a promise to a dying man Fresh out of jail, John Magadan sets out for the oasis of Coyote Wells. When he finds the spring dried up, he knows he will likely die. He trudges on, and hears a voice calling from the sands-a gutshot man pleading for water that John does not have to give. The man presses silver into John's hand, begging him to take it to Yuma, to tell his sweetheart how he died. John agrees,...

Driven off their land, a gang of settlers turns to a life of crime A few miles outside of town lies the Tanglewood, a savage maze choked with inedible plants and overrun with deadly animals. The sharpest trackers in the West would lose themselves in the Tanglewood, but for those who know its secrets, it is an invaluable refuge. Dan Sumner and his friends are honorable men, and in this part of the prairie, that means they are a dying breed. Forced...

An out-of-work lawman rides into the hills in search of a runaway killer Before he draws his gun, Tom Dyce waits for John Bass to shoot first. He plugs the killer in the stomach but doesn't fire again. A marshal's deputy, Tom has never killed a man in cold blood . . . at least, not yet. The confrontation with Bass sours Tom on working for the marshal. Needing a change, he decides to return home to Thibido and the woman he loved long ago, Aurora Tyne....