Texas Ranger Rowdy Bates rode with Captain Ridge Creek for the better part of his youth, right up until his own commission to captain, first in Laredo then in San Antonio and finally back to take over the Laredo post. Bates did as he was ordered but never could shake the fact that his friend and mentor had disappeared off the face of the earth, leaving little behind but rumors and gossip. Bates finally obeyed his feelings, took a leave of absence, and followed the sightings and rumors of his old boss’s travels, heading north to Kansas, Wyoming then to Deadwood in the Dakota Territories, seeking out the truth of what happened to his dear friend...wishing against all the odds that the captain was still alive...and if he wasn't, then learning where he died and was buried.

Texas Ranger Captain Rowdy Bates rides to Kansas to chase the rustler who stole his horse, Sugar. In Wichita, he meets a young U.S. Marshal by the name of Jack Black, and they side-kick up to pursue and capture the Bill Whitley Outlaw Gang along with Brack Cornett, taking the lawmen back to Texas and eventually deep into Mexico in their pursuit. All the while back in Laredo, Victoria Lee Dupree awaits her trial and an almost certain sentence to hang by the neck for the murder of High Card Harry Brownstone—an act perpetrated to protect the man she loved. Who is her secret love and will her beau arrive in time to save her from certain death?

A madman is on the loose along the Texas rivers, and it is the Rangers’ job to stop the killer. Capt. Rowdy Bates, along with three men from the Laredo post, board the Magnolia paddleboat headed for the Brazos River. How many bodies will accumulate before they stop this killing spree? Meanwhile Terry Coffee has challenged the East Coast bare-knuckle boxing champion – a man twice his size – to a match. But the young Ranger from Kentucky is as mean as a honey badger when he gets his dander up. Will the small but feisty Ranger win?Justin Burrs is getting too old to run the Lone Star Saloon on his own, so his niece, Abigale, moves to Laredo to run the business – and Rowdy Bates is left in a whirlwind of trouble from the moment he meets the woman with the vampire eyes.

A band of young Comanche Warriors captures Texas Rangers Corporal Terry Coffee and Larry Landers. Will they escape with their lives, or will they perish in the wild country? The Terrible Horrel Brothers are sweeping across the eastern New Mexico Territory and Texas in a path of violence thanks to a feud with the Higgens family. Will the Texas Rangers be able to stop the killings?Abigale Burrs and Sally Skull bang heads over Captain Rowdy Bates as emotions begin to boil. Which one of the Texan beauties will win over the tall man with the wavy hair and steel blue eyes?

The Laredo Texas Rangers received orders from Austin to head to El Paso to assist and contain the violence when a posse of seventy-five Mexican vaqueros ride into town. They are on the trail of the American Rustlers and the land-grabbers who are terrorizing El Paso County and the ranches south of the border. So Captain Bates and his men head for Southwestern part of the state and US Marshal Dallas Stoudenmire, a lawman with a happy trigger-finger. Will the child, captured by the gang leader, Pat Whisper, escape with his life, or will he perish like his parents and little sister? And who will solve the mystery of the money man behind the land-grabbing; the local law or Captain Bates and his men?

A telegram arrives from the Northern Oklahoma Territories in Laredo for Texas Ranger Captain Bates. Marshal Jack Black is in trouble, and the only friend he has to ask for help is Rowdy. So, the Ranger sets off north on the MK&T Railroad to aid his friend, a journey that leads him to Kansas State Prison in Levine – an institution that is called the Hell-Hole by its inmates. Has the Kansas marshal finally crossed that fine gray line of the law and will he spend the rest of his life behind bars, or will Rowdy Bates and his Texas Rangers find a way to win the day and save Jack from the very outlaws he put away?

Someone has murdered the sheriff and bushwhacked one of the captain's men—is it possible the culprit is a person close to the Texas Rangers? A Comanche war party attacks a wagon train—will Captain Bates arrive on time, and who does he have to save, the settlers or the warrior braves? Miss Nati Buena Fuente is in mortal danger—but why and from whom? Will Rowdy lose yet another close friend?

Reliable Captain Rowdy Bates of the Texas Rangers is forced to make some of the most difficult decisions of his career when the notorious hanging judge, The Honorable Judge Roy Bean, summons him to track down rogue U.S. Marshal Boon Spade. Spade is known for bringing wanted men to justice just so he can watch them swing at the end of a rope. When the veteran lawman pulls the wool over the eyes of Judge Bean, Bates, Sergeant Travis Picket and Corporal Terry Coffee are assigned to track him down with the help of trusty scouts, Potak and Tuc. When things go awry, ornery Judge Bean goes ballistic, putting the careers of all three Rangers in jeopardy. It takes strong-willed men to tame Texas’ wild country. Whose willpower will prevail in the eleventh installment of Ash Lingam’s Texas Ranger series?

Capt. Rowdy Bates had a perfect life. He lived with his family in a house in the center of Laredo, Texas. He appeared to have everything a man could ever want. But a dark future awaits the honest Texas Ranger. An evil twist of fate threatens to change his life entirely, and there appears to be no way back to what it once was. The Tonkawa scouts, Tuc and Potak, hire on with the captain to track two evil killers who are killing innocent families and burning homes across the state. They embark on a journey across Texas and into The Oklahoma Territories. Life on the reservations is hard, and food is scarce. As the tribes attempt to scratch out a living on drought-ridden and plague-infested land, a handful of greedy ranchers and Indian agents scheme to deprive them of the necessities of life. The once proud Indians are starving. A different type of Texas Ranger takes chase and holds no quarter. After a personal tragedy Capt. Bates is a changed man and wreaks the wrath at will. He ignores the law and all he had stood for in the past.