Beautifully educated, born to the life of a Southern gentleman, Dr. John Henry Holliday is given an awful choice at the age of twenty-two: die within months in Atlanta or leave everyone and everything he loves in the hope that the dry air and sunshine of the West will restore him to health. Young, scared, lonely, and sick, he arrives on the rawest edge of the Texas frontier just as an economic crash wrecks the dreams of a nation. Soon, with few alternatives...

Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Tombstone, the O.K. Corral--the icons are so firmly embedded in American history that we might know nothing more about them than their names. But in this spare, moody riff on the events leading to the 1881 shootout at the O.K. Corral--the signature battle defining the violence of the Old West--Robert B. Parker shades the black-and-white starkness with shifting tones of gray.

Ty Butler came from Eastern wealth, but killers destroyed everyone who shared his name. Seeking a safe haven in the open West, he's found a home among the outlaws, tinhorns, and fugitives at the gaming table. His skill at reading faces and cards has kept Butler in the money, and it's kept him sharp and ready for the assassins who're hunting him. Working his way to Dodge City, Butler finds the town about to explode -- with him right in the middle.

Matt Dillon and his deputy Festus have been badly hurt in a shootout and are recovering. Even though barely able to walk, Matt must cope with a bank robbery, a killer blizzard, returning bandits, and a killer.

A bride's portrait of Dodge City, Kansas: Adeline Reid, once the sweetheart of a notorious train robber, is determined to keep her shady past a secret. Her newfound focus has gained her two things--a successful portrait studio and a life free of romance. But when Deputy Miles Carr's inquiries into a local shopkeeper's murder lead to her door, her life and heart are threatened with exposure. A bride's sweet surprise in Sauers, Indiana: As a young American...

In 1879, lawman Wyatt Earp, accompanied by his wife and his brothers, leaves Dodge City and heads to Tombstone, Arizona, where he takes a job as deputy sheriff.