When Major Frank Paddock and Barnes Kilrone were dashing young officers in Paris, they both fell in love with the same woman. But now they are men in exile in one of the harshest territories of the American West. It is against this inhospitable backdrop, where survival itself is a day-to-day struggle, that Paddock makes a fateful decision that will plunge both men into a headlong battle for their lives and for the lives they're sworn to protect.

The year is 1916. The enemy, Pancho Villa, is elusive. The terrain is unforgiving, the intense heat and dust both relentless and overpowering. Through the mountains and across the long dry stretches of Mexico, Napoleon Childs, an aging cavalryman, leads an expedition of inexperienced horse soldiers on seemingly fruitless searches. Napoleon has weathered the storms of battle with a toughness that has become like a second skin, with the Rattler,...

Louisa Bell never wanted to be a dance-hall singer, but dire circumstances force her hand. With a little help from her brother in the cavalry, she's able to make ends meet, but lately he's run afoul of his commanding officer, so she undertakes a visit to straighten him out. Major Daniel Adams has his hands full at Fort Reno. He can barely control his rowdy troops, much less his two adolescent daughters. If Daniel doesn't find someone respectable to...

Follows cavalry Sergeant Will Larson's journey across the waterless desert, and is the story of a moral dilemma: just how far should a man go to save the lives of his comrades?

"Tracking down a crazy Confederate scheme to capture Colorado was the kind of job Union Captain Tom Baird was ready for. But he hadn't reckoned on a hidden cache of ammunition big enough to equip a small army--or the surprising partnership of a beautiful brunette Federal agent. When Baird is captured by three men, the remainder of a First Colorado Cavalry scouting patrol, it takes a while for each to earn the other's trust. He needs their help to...

"Captain Logan Garcia was a very worried man. Were his suspicions true? Could Shaver, the new Indian scout, be trusted? No one could sense what was going on in the mind of scout Hiram Shaver. A loner and a newcomer to Fort Lincoln, Shaver's duty was to lead three troops of the 10th Cavalry, under the command of Colonel Detrick, in pursuit of the Apache band that kidnaped the colonel's wife. The colonel, lost deep in his own personal as well as military...