Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #14

Wyatt Earp keeps a watchful eye on old Jeb Slattery, a quiet loner whose modest lifestyle has sparked wild rumors about hidden gold—rumors that draw the attention of two drifters who'll stop at nothing to find it. When the marshal learns Slattery's been kidnapped and forced into the mountains, he races to the abandoned mine where the truth about the old man's fortune—or lack of it—is about to be revealed in the dark.

When Wyatt Earp takes the marshal's badge in the new tent city of New City, he discovers that a powerful businessman named Branch Welden is determined to keep the railroad from moving westward—because it would destroy his profitable monopoly on local commerce. As Earp enforces the law impartially and Welden's hired gunmen escalate their sabotage of the rail crews, the marshal must find a way to stop the violence and let the railroad complete its track before the town tears itself apart.

When Governor Blake invites Wyatt Earp to mediate a brewing feud between two ranching outfits in the new territory, the marshal quickly discovers that Jim Deming and Gus Mitzig—men who once crossed the country together in friendship—are locked in an escalating cycle of raids and sabotage. As fences fall, waterholes get dynamited, and accusations fly, Earp suspects someone else is pulling the strings, but convincing the angry ranchers to see past their mutual blame proves nearly impossible. With the territory's future hanging in the balance, Earp must uncover who's really behind the violence before the feud consumes everything the settlers came to build.

After five years back East, Jud Maxon returns to Silver City to find his father beaten and his mining claim threatened by the ruthless Cole Dexter, who's been secretly working the rich ore deposit for himself. The young Easterner may look like a tenderfoot, but he's got more than one trick up his sleeve to expose Dexter's theft and protect his family's stake. With the claim set to expire in a week, Maxon races to gather the evidence he needs before Dexter's patience—and his methods—turn deadly.