Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #47

When Wyatt Earp hangs up his marshal's badge to become a peaceful businessman, he figures his days of dodging killers' bullets are finally behind him—until Coley Ripp and his gang decide an unarmed Earp makes the perfect target. Now stripped of his authority and facing men sworn to gun him down, Earp must decide whether to reclaim the gun he's promised to set aside or find another way to survive in a town that's made him open season. It's a frontier test of nerve that goes far deeper than a quick draw.

Wyatt Earp confronts a smooth-talking gambler named Galt Rand who has systematically won control of the town by exploiting the banker Frank Rutledge's weakness for cards—a secret shame from Rand's past that gives him leverage. When Earp decides to take Rand on in a high-stakes poker game to reclaim the town's mortgages and loans, the marshal discovers that Rand's real advantage isn't skill with cards, but a hidden gun in the hands of an unseen accomplice. As the final pot grows to include everything the townspeople own, Earp must act fast to stop Rand from claiming total victory.

Two prospectors strike it rich with a mother lode of gold in the wilderness, but their newfound fortune breeds suspicion and paranoia—each man convinced the other will betray him for the entire haul. As Pat Rankin and Otto Richter make the perilous journey back to town through hostile territory, they must navigate not only the dangers lurking in the landscape, but the darker impulses their wealth awakens within themselves.

When a young woman is found murdered and the only witness fingers a recently released gunman named Hondo Jacks, Marshal Wyatt Earp finds himself torn between duty and doubt—convinced the accused is innocent, but bound to investigate the damning accusation. As a lynch mob closes in and Hondo refuses to face jail again, Earp must uncover the real killer before his own conscience becomes the casualty.