Dan Killoe had a trail herd and settlers to get across unknown territory to a new land, but when he gave shelter to a stranger, he was borrowing more trouble than he wanted to handle.

While running ahead of a posse, Nolan Sackett stops to aid a wagon stuck on the plains. As Sackett wonders not only why the wagon is stranded in the middle of nowhere, but also why a beautiful young woman is hiding inside the wagon, another beauty, Penelope Hume, comes along with the key to a cadre of gold hidden in the mountains.

The saga of the Sackett family continues with Logan Sackett, a cynical and rootless drifter, meeting a fiery old widow, Emily Talon-who is even wilder than him. Tall and plucky, she is determined to defend herself against the locals who are trying to take her land. And even though Logan initially intends on not getting himself involved, he can't help it when he discovers that Emily had been born a Sackett.

Follows the adventures of members of the Sackett family in the frontier West.

Tell Sackett was sitting pretty, with thirty pounds of gold that were mostly his. Maybe that was why when a beautiful raven-haired woman asked to ride with him to Los Angeles, he didn't care that she came with a lot of trouble. A powerful hard ride over the blistering Mojave desert was one third of the trouble. Another third was trackers out for the woman and for his blood. The last third was getting ambushed and being left without the woman, a horse,...