Dayton Garrett is something of a trouble-shooter, often taking on hard or dangerous jobs. His brother offers to help with his most recent problem, but the aid comes at a price. Soon, a simple child recovery escalates and ends up angering the family who run the town of Shilo. Dayton then finds himself drawn into a second battle, this time against the most powerful family in Larkinville. Kidnappers, slavery, and guarding a condemned prisoner, while facing off against deadly killers from two different towns who want him dead - it could be that Dayton has finally taken on more than any one man can handle. However, Dayton has never quit a job until it is done. He battles the odds, no matter how great, until he wins the fight ...or dies trying.

Nash Valeron didn't expect starting up his doctor's practice would be so lively. But when a young woman arrives, his life is basically turned upside down and inside out. What begins as protecting the girl from a couple bullies becomes a life or death situation. Land grabbing, murder and a host of killers are in Nash's immediate future. The only way to combat the odds is to ask for help from his family. A lethal ambush, a corrupt asylum, and plots to kill the girl abound. And only the combined strength and savvy of the Valeron people can foil the wrongdoers sinister plans. Who will be left standing after the blood and gun-smoke finally clears?

After the Civil War, three Valeron brothers brought their families to an untamed wilderness at the Colorado-Wyoming border. Fifteen years later, they had carved out an empire, complete with cattle, mining, a mill, and the nearby town named after them. When Scarlet Valeron, poised to be married in Pueblo, Colorado, is kidnapped and her betrothed killed, a desperate call goes out to the Valeron family. Brothers, cousins, and hired help unite in an effort to find her and bring her back. They learn Scarlet is on her way to Brimstone, a bandit stronghold of over a hundred gunmen and outlaws. Most men would look at the incredible odds and figure Scarlet was lost forever. The Valeron’s, however, see it as a matter of family honour to get their kin back, and settle the score!

Sketcher, as ramrod over the Valeron cattle, takes Reese Valeron's place on a trip to the yearly auction in Chicago with Shane and Jared Valeron. A simple sketch becomes the impetus that quickly involves Sketcher with several street urchins, a person called Mother and an unsolved murder. Meanwhile, Wyatt goes to visit a friend in the small town of Solitary. What starts out as a genial trip ends up as a battle with a rancher and his sons that leaves him fighting for his life. The call goes out to come to Wyatt's aid. Jared and Shane leave Sketcher to deal with buying and delivering the prize bulls to the Valeron ranch. Others from the Valeron ranch join the conflict, arriving in Solitary to wait for Jared. The battle with the Strang ranch could pit thirty men against Jared and his handful of men, while Sketcher is risking his life dealing with crooked cops and the leader of a Chicago gang. Covering bets on two fronts, the chances are slim everyone will get out alive!

Not all criminals wear masks and carry guns. Some hide behind respectability and seldom wield a weapon. The Valerons seek justice for an attack and theft, but they find no smoking gun, no gunmen, not a single piece of evidence against the perpetrators. They realize they are dealing with clever and careful criminals. As Jared and Shane's investigation alone can't expose the guilty party, Wendy Valeron is employed to explore an alternative means. While trying not to risk her life, there is always great danger when attempting to expose an organized criminal enterprise. With fear of exposure, the nervous culprits summon help and react violently. How many lives on both sides will the Valerons' retribution claim?

Some men operate beyond the law's reach. Such are the Macreedys. They sell whiskey to the Indians across the Canadian border, then cash in their loot (including that gained from the selling of Indian women and children) and return to their horse ranch outside of Rimrock, Wyoming, outwardly living respectable lives. But the killing of an ex-Mountie in Wyoming reveals their fiendish operation to three travellers. Unfortunately for the Macreedys, one of those travellers is Scarlet Valeron, who promises the dying MP that her family will see justice done. However, without proof of a crime, the local law enforcers can do nothing, so it is left to the Valerons to figure a plan that will expose the Macreedys for the criminals they are. If that fails - well, a Valeron has made a promise - Justice will be served!

It sounded simple enough - Wyatt Valeron is hired to escort a man from Paradise to Denver Colorado. However, upon arrival at the secluded mining town, he learns a sinister tyrant named Gaskell controls everyone and everything. His hired 'enforcers' maintain a form of law that supersedes all outside authority. To break a rule can mean punishment or even death. Wyatt does what comes naturally and ends up sentenced to hang. With the Valerons going into action to save Wyatt and take on the all-powerful men in Paradise, another problem has landed on the family doorstep. Cliff Mason finds himself drawn to the plight of a runaway girl, a girl with a dark secret and terrible fear of the man searching for her. Both dilemmas have a similar challenge - the authorities are unable to do anything without proof. The Valerons must act on their own to stop these criminals who are Beyond the Law.

Rickards' work separates fact from fantasy in this meticulously documented account of the life of Pat Garrett and the men who may have killed him.

The new Sheriff in Trouble, Texas, had a lot to prove. The last thing needed was a gorgeous CIA analyst getting in his way—at Christmastime no less! Trouble's newly minted sheriff, Garrett Galloway, is determined to move on from his traumatic past. But when Laurel McCallister tracks him down and begs for help, he can't say no to the smart, beautiful CIA analyst. She's desperate to find the assailant who killed her niece's family—and now wants her dead. On the run, Garrett, Laurel and her young niece escape to a Texas ranch, but danger follows. Garrett's courage lessens Laurel's initial distrust of the mysterious lawman and sparks fly in the remote cabin. Now he must succeed for more reasons than avenging Laurel's family.

Biography of the man who killed Billy the Kid, this thorough and well-written analysis deals effectively with almost every question that has been raised about the controversial life and death of Pat Garrett.