Blazing Western #3

When a ruthless operator named Lazarus begins muscling small ranchers out of the valley, Tom Landry realizes the only way to stop him is to unite the two biggest spread owners—but they're locked in a bitter feud over some stolen Arabian horses. Landry hatches a daring plan to force Webb and Clark together, banking on their shared enemy being more important than their grudge.

A hardened half-breed outlaw named Black-Jack sets up an ambush for the Utah Kid, but the seasoned lawman turns the tables—and then does something unexpected: he treats the wounded renegade with genuine compassion. As Black-Jack nurses his broken arm in the lawman's camp, he opens up about the prejudice and rejection that drove him to a life of crime, and for the first time, someone actually listens. Now, faced with a terrible choice between his old gang and the man who showed him mercy, Black-Jack must decide who he really is.

Cal Roberts, fresh out of jail and burning for revenge, rallies his old gang to settle a score with Sheriff Jim Craig and Deputy Toby Miller—the lawmen who put him away two years ago. With a carefully planned ambush waiting at Buzzard Lake, Cal believes he's orchestrated the perfect crime, but a crucial mistake threatens to unravel everything and send him fleeing toward the Colorado border.

Dade McQueen is left to lead a wagon train of settlers' families through Apache territory without military escort after the Army abandons him to make better time—and when a mysterious stranger named Jake joins the caravan, Tennessee Jolly's suspicions grow, even as hostile forces close in. Forced to defend women and children against a determined Apache warparty, Dade must outsmart both the warriors circling his wagons and the traitor in his midst if anyone is going to reach the Arizona Territory alive.