They came from the sea, a former ship captain named Owen Bird who inherited a Texas ranch from his brother. A former pirate named "Black Terrance" Malone, who has arrrived in the once peaceful Rattlesnake Valley with a crew of sea dogs to do his dirty work. And dirty work it will be, as Black Terrance begins a campaign of thieving and threatening, even targeting Bird's beautiful young niece. Into this storm rides the Loner, Conrad Morgan, son of the...

In Utah, the Loner finds religion--behind the barrel of a gun . . . The damsel is in distress, or so it seems to Conrad Browning. On his way across the wide, tall Utah Territory to California, the Loner meets a beautiful Mormon girl on the run from a forced wedding--and the gun-toting faithful trying to hunt her down. But there are two sides to every story--and the ones you don't hear are the ones that can get you killed. The runaway bride has a little...