Jesse James #3

On a moonless Missouri night in 1866, six vengeful men ride toward the isolated farmhouse where Jesse James sleeps, intent on settling old Civil War scores. Awakened to the threat of assassination, Jesse must rely on his lightning-fast draw and deadly aim to survive the ambush. This story captures a pivotal moment in the outlaw's dangerous life when quick reflexes become his only defense against enemies who won't rest until he's dead.

Fleeing Pinkerton heat, Jesse James lands in 1868 San Francisco and wades into a Barbary Coast brawl to defend two gold miners from the thugs of gambling den owner Ace Gannon—only to find himself entangled with Fran Wilson, a casino woman caught between her dangerous employer and her growing feelings for the outlaw. As Jesse rides toward the gold fields to warn his new friends of Gannon's treachery, forces are already closing in from multiple directions in the California hills.

Jesse James arrives in California to visit his Uncle Drury James at his struggling ranch, only to find the region plagued by stagecoach robberies—and to discover that Drury's wife, Aunt Cele, is being threatened by a ruthless gambler named Hank Burdock. When Jesse stumbles onto evidence of Burdock's scheme to extort money from the family through intimidation and theft, he takes matters into his own hands to protect his newfound relatives. A classic tale of frontier justice and family loyalty set against the dusty roads of 1950s California.

When a notorious man-killer mountain lion called Bone-Crusher terrorizes the ranches around Broken Creek, Sheriff Alabam organizes a hunting party—but the discovery of rust on the teeth marks of the latest victim sets him on a different trail entirely. Someone is using the lion's fearsome reputation as cover for murder, and Alabam's investigation points to an unexpected killer with a personal motive and a clever disguise. A tense confrontation in the bunkhouse reveals the truth, but not before the real Bone-Crusher claims a final, ironic victim.

When a violent gunman named Harry Tracy and his partner Jeff Merrill rob a train and strike at a local bank in 1897, Sheriff McLaughlin organizes a desperate manhunt across the territory. After their capture and imprisonment, the two plan a daring prison break—but their escape sets off a massive pursuit, and Tracy's trust in Merrill begins to crumble when he discovers his partner may have betrayed him. Now Tracy must navigate a landscape crawling with lawmen while reckoning with betrayal.