The Devil With a Gun
by Doug Stoiber
The Kid started young on his twisted trail, robbing and killing as the mood struck him. Lawmen couldn't catch him. Was there no one who could stop him?

Blood and Dust in Tombstone
by M.D. Smith
A stranger who looks like a gunslinger comes to Tombstone in 1879. The town Sheriff—in the hip pocket of the evil ranch magnate, known to be a killer, wants to know what his business is. Learning it's with Jenny, sole survivor of a ranch burning and killing, the temperature becomes super-heated.

Call Shotgun
by Rachel Giebler
An experienced Wells Fargo shotgun messenger, William Johnson, is more than ready for his next route. But the new stagecoach driver is peculiarly nervous. William soon realizes this isn't any ordinary job.

Last Fast Draw
by William S. Hubbartt
Gunslinger Johnny Barton breaks out of prison and returns to Bent Creek, Texas, to even the score by gunning down Sheriff Clay Holland, the lawman who put him away. For one of these men, will this be his last fast draw?

The Stranger
by Herschel Cozine
Wherever Luke Clayton goes he is forced into a gunfight by those who covet his title as the "Fastest Gun In The West." His latest fight with a young man barely out of his teens ends predictably as all the others have. Those who fight him are fighting for his title. Luke is fighting for his life.

A Crack in the Ice Skin
by Paul A. J. Lewis
In the frozen Colorado landscape, a Civil War sharpshooter hunts the Duchamp brothers, who he believes to have been responsible for the murders of his wife and infant son. As the conflict moves through an increasingly bitter landscape, he begins to doubt the guilt of the men he is pursuing.

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