With his new wife, Addie, Jack Guthrie leaves Apache Springs on his long-delayed journey to California. But the Apaches have other ideas. Taking refuge in Bonito, they soon find the town cut off by warriors. The townspeople, afraid, turn to Guthrie for help. After losing two new friends to the ravaging Indians, he decides it’s time to end the siege once and for all. Guthrie rides into the Apache camp, where he challenges the war chief, Esparto – Ghost – to battle, man to man, with the town’s fate hanging in the balance.

Driven out of town by a fearful sheriff and a shrewish wife, Jake hunter heads west. But on a rocky trail in Arizona Territory, Hunter loses control of his wagon and tumbles down the side of a mountain. He wakes in a place unlike any he has known. Then the beautiful Xiang Li-Sung explains that her father pulled him from the canyon and nursed him back to health. Thankful, Hunter takes his place among the Chinese in their small section of Tall Pine. The white folks of town look down on the Chinese, and take a strong dislike to Hunter because of his close association with them. But with the help of a friendly bartender, he slowly wins over most of them. But there are always some who resist—and pay the consequences.

Reno Holder and his gang are rampaging through Arizona Territory, and U.S. Marshal Tom Pike wants them bad. Trouble is, the gang is more than Pike’s deputies can handle. So he calls on old friend Joe Coffin. The bounty hunter is small of stature, which often has men of all sorts underestimating him. But he is the best at what he does, and as ruthless and deadly as any devilish outlaw. And when Joe Coffin gets on a man’s trail, death rides with him.

Joe Coffin should have killed the Apache named Kietah straight off instead of feeding him and sending him on his way. It would have saved a lot of grief—and lives. When the warriors left a new widow and her young son in the wilderness to die,, Coffin had had enough. Tracking Kietah’s renegades into Arizona’s White Mountains, Coffin goes to war on the Apaches, and he’s a warrior the likes of which they’ve never seen.

Luke Wolfe’s grandfather Jeb laid claim to 50,000 acres of prime land back in his days as a mountain man. He never did return to it, and now Wolfe has arrived in Arizona Territory, aiming to take back the land. But it won’t be easy, not with gun-toting ranch hands, professional shootists and their hot-headed leader standing in his way. And there’s one thing for certain—blood will drench the land as Wolfe fights for what is his.