Abigail Grimston and her son, Wyatt, live alone on a ranch in 1880. They have no neighbors and town is a half-day's wagon ride away, so one would expect them to be living a lonely life. Not so. Abigail and her fourteen-year-old son don't need anyone else. They have each other. Everything is perfect until the day Abigail catches Wyatt doing the unthinkable. The decision she makes changes their lives forever.
Josh Huston had to grow up fast in West Texas in the 1860s. This is a sort of coming-of-age story for a boy who had to become the man of the house when his mother killed his father sort of by accident. Josh wound up building an unusual family at a relatively early age while fighting Indians, poor white trash, and carpetbaggers. He was a bounty hunter for a while and then a special consultant for the Union Army. Somehow, you wonder how he lived through it all! There are 11 chapters.
My husband is gone and I need a fresh start. There's homesteads in the Oklahoma Territory free for the taking if I can hold on to it. All I need to do is set my stake and live there for five years. Problem is, a no-account scalawag of a man has his eye on the same claim. And on me. I need to get rid of him, but when we set our stakes at the same time, things get a lot more complicated.
How a brother lusted after and fell in love with his little sister, only to find out years later that she lusted and loved him too. Now that they are living together, she gathers a harem for him to enjoy. Life is good.
In January 1869, ten fleeing bandits, bent on freedom, had no idea how violent the Comanche could be. The posse trailing them had thinned to just one man, they figured they would lose him in a twisting canyon ahead. The ten desperate men rode into the canyon, with Bain following a few hours behind. The bandits had thought that Bain was their biggest problem-until they encountered the Indians. Bain wondered would he capture them, or meet his end at the hands of the blood-thirsty Comanche?
Jack Downing, an Army Ranger, was somehow zapped to western Georgia of 1810, just after the beginning of the Redstick war. In the first few minutes of his time there he rescues a White woman from the Redsticks. She soon becomes his wife. He sets himself up as a professional hunter and supplies hog and deer meat to the residents of the town of Bob's Knob. He becomes the captain of the local militia, and they fight several battles with the Redsticks. 8 chapters.