Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal #63

When a committee of desperate miners hires Wyatt Earp to investigate a wave of murders plaguing the California gold fields, the legendary lawman discovers a ruthless Chinese tong operating in the shadows of Nugget Gulch—using terror and assassination to force miners into selling their claims. Earp must infiltrate the tong's ranks and confront its mysterious leader, Kai, before the secret society silences everyone who knows the truth.

When a hot-headed young cowboy named Maxie Smith challenges Marshal Wyatt Earp over his cousin's jailing, the marshal refuses to be goaded into a gunfight—but that restraint only emboldens the rougher elements in town. Earp must navigate the fine line between keeping the peace and standing firm against those who mistake patience for weakness.

A prospector strikes it rich in the desert, discovering a mother lode of gold—but when he comes to town to have his ore assayed, he realizes word of his fortune has already spread. Now shadowed by fortune hunters eager to stake nearby claims, he must protect what's legally his while a boomtown springs up around his discovery.

Wyatt Earp confronts a seemingly genteel drifter named Clarence Hodges in Paradise Springs, only to discover the pint-sized schemer commands a crew of ruthless killers and runs a web of fraud and intimidation throughout the town. When Hodges silences the witnesses who would testify against him through fear and violence, the frontier marshal must outmaneuver a man who's far more dangerous than his appearance suggests. It's a battle of wits and will between a lawman bound by justice and a conniving criminal who'll stop at nothing to avoid the noose.