They call him "The Butcher of Baxter Pass," the former Union general who massacred 200 Confederate prisoners. Now it is Sheriff Jess Casey's job to protect the general from those who want him dead, which turns out to be pretty much everyone. When they arrive in Fort Worth , followed by the vengeance seeking McNamara clan, Casey has to swallow his disgust and uphold the law. But it won't be easy.

After a devastating flood orphaned Noelle Brown, she thought her charming benefactor, Andrew Paige, could be the man of her dreams. So why did his steely-eyed older stepbrother, Jared Dunn, make her heart race and her breath catch in her throat? Desperado turned lawman, Jared had come home to Fort Worth, Texas, ready to leave his dangerous past behind. The green-eyed, feisty young woman his stepbrother had taken in wasn't the gold digger Jared had...

Cézanne Martin, a Fort Worth cop turned lawyer, wakes up late one night to find a gun in her face--held by Darlene Driskoll, a soon-to-be-convicted crazed murderess and prison escapee. After eluding Driskoll in the course of a harrowing car ride, Cézanne seeks help from the FWPD's star detective, Wolfgang Slash Vaughn. News that Bob Martin, her long-lost dad, has died disrupts her life further when she discovers elderly Aunt Velda squatting in...

Deb Ralston, a detective with the Fort Worth police, has a lot on her plate in this follow up to Martin's earlier novel, Hacker. She has to investigate child abuse, a suicide and serial rape, all the while suffering from foot surgery.

It's the early sixties and Willie Nelson is down and out, barely eking out a living as a singer songwriter. The week before Christmas, he spots a legless man on a cart, selling wares in front of Leonard's Department Store in Fort Worth, Texas. The humble figure, by the name of Vernon Clay, piques Willie's curiosity, but Vernon is stubbornly private. Willie is tenacious, though, and he eventually learns that Vernon is a fellow musician, a fine guitarist...