A killer is on the loose in the Arizona Territory. One by one, Tonto Basin ranchers are being murdered for their livestock–and the Cattle Raisers Association has hired two range detectives to catch the culprit. From the looks of them, Stovepipe Steward and Wilbur Coleman are just another pair of high plains drifters. But with their razor-sharp detective skills and rare talent for trouble, they’re the last remaining hope for one young cowboy who’s been arrested for the murders. Stovepipe and Wilbur believe the boy is innocent. In short order the trail of clues leads to a secret canyon hideout, and the duo find themselves in the middle of an all-out range war–with the dirtiest gang of cutthroats, thieves, and outlaws the west has ever known ..

There’s just one mystery left to solve: How will they get out of this alive?

HELL ON THE RANGE

On the outskirts of the town of Mustang Flat is Sean O’Neil’s longhorn ranch, the Rocking S, one of many small spreads across Texas’s western plains. Competition between cattlemen is fierce but friendly—until Colonel Lance Kincaid begins to expand his operation. He pays handsomely to those willing to sell their land and livestock. Those that refuse find their lives under fierce attack—with deadly consequences.

Sean O’Neil is not a man easily intimidated. His brother Johnny, a bareknuckle prizefighter out of Boston, even less so. But as the O’Neil brothers take a stand against Kincaid, violence erupts across the territory, catching them all in the crossfire. Despite Kincaid’s bloody tactics and ambition, there are even more ruthless outfits who aim to start a range war to wipe them all off the map.

To save the people and land they love, the fighting O’Neil brothers will have to show their enemies no mercy—with blood and  bullets.

In 1848, Dooley Monahan, son of struggling Iowa pioneers, went off to to pick up a new milk cow. Young Dooley never came home. Now, nearly three decades later, Dooley Monahan has become an accidental legend, managing to plant a bullet in the chest of a dangerous outlaw. All Dooley really wants is to claim his reward at a bank in Phoenix and make his way north to a gold strike he read about in a newspaper.But fate has other plans. It starts with a family slaughtered by Apaches, a dog smarter than most humans Dooley knows, and a girl with a wounded soul. And the blood-hungry brothers of the outlaw Dooley killed will not give up their pursuit until they’ve avenged his death.

The farther Dooley tries to head north, destiny pushes him west. His trail is populated by strange friends and dangerous enemies, strewn with bad luck and bad blood–and frequently interrupted by sudden storms of gunfire.