Jessie and Ki are trapped in an underground slave camp! En route to Fort Younger to help a friend beat a trumped-up murder charge, Jessie and Ki encounter the real killers, who intend to keep the duo from proving their friend's innocence.

Hell hath no fury like a dozen women riding for vengeance! After witnessing the murders of their families, twelve women band together to seek revenge on the men responsible for the crimes, but when their blood lust rages out of control, it is up to Jessie and Ki to stop them.

Jessie and Ki fight for a gold mine—but a killer wants to make it their tomb! In the gold mining town of Redemption, Colorado, a snakepit of violence and greed, Jessie and Ki must do a little investigating when one of Jessie's friends is murdered by the mining boss's thugs.

Jessie and Ki fix up a deadly cure for some outlaws with gold fever! Jessica Starbuck and her partner, martial arts master Ki, head to the Nevada desert to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a family who was rumored to have struck gold there.

A valuable ranch is up for grabs—and so are Jessie and Ki's lives! After old friend Malcom Birnam is gunned down by his two new hired hands, it is up to Jessie and Ki to protect Birnam's son from the murderous schemes of the vicious duo.

Jessie and Ki fight to save a mysterious hellraiser from a life sentence of death and vengeance! Rewarding an act of heroism with a seat on the spring roundup, Jessie learns that her new hand, Dustin Gamble, has a larger score to settle and is threatening to destroy anything—or anyone—standing in his path.

An assassin blazes a bloody trail headed straight for Jessie and Ki! Jessica Starbuck, a woman fighting for justice on the American frontier, and Ki, a martial arts expert devoted to her protection, return in an adventure that brings them face to face with a mystery killer named "The Scorpion."

In the wickedest town since Sodom, Jessie and Ki fight to save a young man's life—and their own souls! When Jessie and Ki tackle a rescue mission inside a saloon called Hell, known for its debauchery, depravity, and death, they find themselves tangling with a vigilante group out to clean up the Wyoming town, no matter who gets in their way.

A con man plans an all-out border war—and makes Jessie a deal to die for! When Colonel Edgar Perry rides into the Circle Star ranch with a get-rich-quick scheme to extend the border of Texas into Mexico, Jessie's refusal to go along leads to her abduction, sending Ki on their trail.

Texas pride, like everything else in the state, is larger than life. So, too, perhaps, are the state’s challenges. Lone Star Tarnished, 2nd edition approaches public policy in the nation’s most populous "red state" from historical, comparative, and critical perspectives. The historical perspective provides the scope for asking how various policy domains have developed in Texas history, regularly reaching back to the state’s founding and with substantial data for the period 1950 to the present. In each chapter, Cal Jillson compares Texas public policy choices and results with those of other states and the United States in general. Finally, the critical perspective allows us to question the balance of benefits and costs attendant to what is often referred to as "the Texas way" or "the Texas model." Jillson delves deeply into seven substantive policy chapters, covering the most important policy areas in which state governments are active. The second edition includes completely rewritten first and second chapters, as well as updates throughout the book and revised figures and tables. Through Jillson's lively and lucid prose, students are well equipped to analyze how Texas has done and is doing compared to selected states and the national average over time and today. Readers will also come away with the necessary tools to assess the many claims of Texas’s exceptionalism.