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"U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland, spearheading a stage line from Gallup to the Colorado River. It will lay out the territory for new settlements, and, be a boon to Navajo trading posts. Unfortunately, it's not Gerald Hall's idea of progress. The mysterious Texas gambler has hired three -- and counting -- kill-crazy assassins to bury Chet under a storm of bullets. To turn the tables on him,...

"A new railroad line is coming to Hansen's Bend--and the Old West will never be the same. Especially for the Callahans. They've been running the local wagon train outfit for years. But now a pompous rail boss named Arbuckle wants to put them out of business. This big-city weasel mocks the Callahans' "slow-poke" wagons--and bets he can finish laying track all the way to the end of the line before Callahan's wagon train even makes it over the mountains....

A deputy sheriff in Texas hill country, Latigo is beckoned by the call of his Colorado roots--a land now pulsating with the fervent excitement of railroads carving through the wilderness and the glint of gold and silver discoveries. Colorado greets him with more than the promise of adventure and fortune when mysterious fragments of his family's history begin to surface, intertwined with the enigmatic presence of Joanna, a young woman whose path he...

"With just a single journey under his belt, first-time wagoneer Tomahawk Callahan became a national hero. It started as a challenge waged by a railroad mogul -- a race between an old-time wagon train and a brand-new rail line -- with the whole world watching. Against all odds, Tomahawk led his family business to victory. At the time, he thought it would be his first -- and last -- wagon train. But at his sister's urging, he's agreed to take on one...

"Everything has a price...Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything--or anyone--is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife--and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he's determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love--the one thing he can't give. Everything except her... Severin is...

"Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close as Brittany and as far as Russia, Ireland, Algeria, Pennsylvania, and Cambodia. Members of parliament hurry back to Paris to vote; a medical student suspects a girl may be dying; a secretary tries to convince...

"You can't buy a ticket for the Elsewhere Express. Appearing only to those whose lives are adrift, it's a magical train seeming to carry very rare and special cargo: a sense of purpose, peace, and belonging. Raya is one of those lost souls. She had dreamed of being a songwriter, but when her brother died, she gave up on her dream and started living his instead. One day on the subway, as her thoughts wander, she's swept off to the Elsewhere Express....

A young boy imagines what it would be like to drive a train and take his little brother along for the ride.

"Thad Jarrett became a living legend when he outdrew and killed the vicious gunfighter, Music Matt McCall. Twenty-two years later, McCall's son is presumably hiding out in the town of Travis, Arizona, where Jarrett is now the sheriff. Like his father, the son sings hymns. Unlike his father, the son of Music Matt McCall strikes late at night leaving behind nothing but corpses. Jarrett wonders if the killings aren't connected to a vote the town is soon...