Paul Bedford

1844. British Army officer Thomas Collins is sent to the fledgling Republic of Texas to meet the legendary President Sam Houston and negotiate terms for the British Empire's involvement in his country. What Thomas finds is a world of subterfuge and danger, and a republic scourged by an implacable and deadly enemy, the Comanche Nation. Collins' desperate fight for survival brings him into contact with Captain Jack Coffee Hays and his Texas Rangers,...

Josiah Wakefield and Dan Sturgis are young civil war veterans employed by the Union Pacific Railroad. Their job: to hunt down the hired gunmen who are wrecking the UPR's supply trains. It's suspected that someone is trying to slow the railroad's westward progress... After a vicious firefight on the Nebraska plains, the pair's continued pursuit takes them to the dissolute city of Omaha - where, between their new acquaintance Bill Hickock, and the deadly...

Brett Dalton, a deadly pistolero, is hired to assassinate President Ulysses S. Grant as he embarks on a re-election campaign across the western states. The President will be travelling via the Union Pacific Railroad, and when his locomotive stops to take on water at an isolated pumping station, the lethal plot will be launched. With hostile Lakota also planning to attack the train, it is up to Thaddeus McEvoy, a special investigator in the newly formed...

Lee Madden's job is to protect a wagon train on its journey from Missouri to Oregon. But his past catches up with him in the brutal shape of Deacon Swain, a border ruffian out to avenge the killing of his younger brother. There are compensations, though. After a vicious clash with Pawnee Indians, Lee finds himself increasingly attracted to the newly widowed Martha. Can their relationship survive both his deadly feud with Swain and a determined assault...

British Army deserter Thomas Collins is working with the Texas Rangers to bring supplies of gunpowder back to San Antonio for the continuing struggle against the fearsome Comanche Nation. As they slowly drive their heavy-laden wagons back, Thomas's past catches up with him in the form of a ruthless British officer, Captain Speirs, who has crossed the Atlantic to apprehend him. Thomas must take control of the Rangers if they are to reach San Antonio...

One year after the end of the Civil War, three southerners are heading northwest on the Bozeman Trail to the gold mining camp at Virginia City. When they find the army has closed the trail because the Sioux are on the warpath, they accept work at Fort Phil Kearny. After an Indian ambush, the men flee the fort, together with a man called Slade. But when Slade is revealed as a hired gun and murderer, the southerners are drawn into the hunt to apprehend...