Peter Brandvold

"Gideon Hawk, the Rogue Lawman, is back in a brand-new western duo . . . In Undertaker's Friend, Hawk shoots three men who try to rob a saloon. One of those men is the spoiled son of a local rancher, Mortimer Stanley. When the smoke finally clears over Cedar Bend, if the rogue lawman is still alive, he'll likely discover that one of his only remaining friends is the local undertaker, who whistles while he works and laughs all the way to the bank....

Everyone in the Never Summer Mountains knows about the ancient Indian curse on Skull Canyon. That's why most folks stay clear of the forbidding chasm that sits up in the highest, remotest reaches of the range, not far from the ranch young Lonnie Gentry shares with his mother and infant half-brother. Lonnie finds himself near Skull Canyon one day, working cows. A man's agonized wail lures him into the canyon, where he finds a youth only a few years...

Gideon Hawk hunts the depraved outlaw Pima Miller into the Superstition Mountains of Arizona Territory. Hawk inadvertently shot Miller's woman, but the killer doesn't seem to mind. He leaves his infant son behind and heads into the mountains with his beautiful young guide, Jodi Zimmerman, who he's kidnapped from the Superstition Stage Relay Station. Hawk, however, minds very much that his bullet meant for Miller struck an innocent woman. He storms...

Louisa Bonaventure's family was slaughtered by the Three of a Kind Gang. Now Louisa wants vengeance -- and bounty hunter Lou Prophet will stop at nothing to make sure she gets it.

"When Doctor Clyde Evans is kidnapped from his home in the middle of the night to tend a wounded outlaw, Sheriff Ben Stillman's problems are only just beginning. Stillman tracks the doctor to a remote cabin deep in the Two Bear Mountains. He springs the doctor, shoots the outlaws, and confiscates the bank loot. He also arrests a beautiful young outlaw, Hettie Styles, who promptly puts a bounty on Stillman's head. While Stillman waits for the sheriff...

"In Gun Trouble at Diamondback, Bear is given the nasty assignment of going after the man or men who killed his old friend, Lou Cameron. Cameron was the town marshal of Diamondback, a small, dusty settlement in the wilds of Wyoming Territory--until someone backshot him when he was leaving the outhouse behind his office. When Bear rides into Diamondback, he finds himself not only chin-deep in the mystery of who killed his old friend but eyebrow deep...

"Cuno Massey has been holing up in the New Mexico town of Nopal, trying to give up his gunslinging ways and return to freighting. But a gang of cutthroats who call themselves "the Boys" led by the savage killer Cecil Craig run Cuno's freight wagon off theroad and into a canyon, killing his mules and setting the young freighter afoot. That's only the start of the desperados' depredations. They take over Nopal intending to settle up for past grievances...

When a murderous gang of outlaws takes refuge from the blizzard in a nearby mountain cabin, taking everyone inside hostage, it is up to Sheriff Ben Stillman to rescue the prisoners, but the situation is complicated when the lawman discovers that his wife is among the hostages.