It was a duty to a dead man. Matt Jensen had promised his friend, slain by an outlaw named Pogue Willis, that he would deliver money to his brother in St. Louis. But Matt's search leads him from St. Louis to Arizona Territory, and into the company of a rich Easterner and his beautiful young wife. The schemes of citified land prospectors don't mean much to Matt, until the young woman is seized by renegade Apaches and it's up to him to save her from...

Scratch Morton and Bo Creel are decent, likable drifters - their youth far behind them - who live by their wits and take cowboy jobs to make a few dollars to keep drifting with. though basically honest, Scratch and Bo aren't above breaking the law, especially those against spitting in public in Texas, and vagrancy in Missouri.

The settlers may think the worst has passed, but Jason fury can see that this ramshakle place he calls home is facing its darkest day. Crippled by a drought and devastated by an unrelenting, blood-red dust storm, Fury is also under attack by Apaches who can smell the settlers' blood and fear.

It was a favor to a dead friend: Frank Morgan is shepherding a group of mail-order brides to a brawlling Alaska boomtown called Skagway. A bushwhacking, storm-racked sea voyage, and anything-but-friendly reception isn't enough to stop Morgan and his blushing brides. But a beautiful woman has a lucrative plot on her mind-in the wild, wild north where men are mad with greed and lonliness-and the last gunfighter will need skills he didn't know he had....