The Dalton Series

Bushwhacked by the corrupt lawman Walker Dodge, Dalton loses his money, his horse, his gun and very nearly his life.   Recuperating in the dead-end town of Harmony, he hears rumors of a fabulous treasure hidden nearby and, even with Walker closing in on him, that's enticing enough to risk staying. And then there's Misty Valdez, the one person who claims to know where the treasure is, and she entices him even more!   But the price of her help may be too high for Dalton. With time running out, can he avoid Misty's trap and find the treasure before the gun-toting Walker catches up with him?

When Dalton holed up in Yellow Creek he tried to put his past behind him. But for a wanted man there can be no peace and he soon finds himself as wealthy Raphael Huffman's hired gun. Now, with a carpetbag bulging with money to guard in a town bristling with gunslingers, it isn't long before somebody risks Dalton's ever-ready gun.   But Dalton didn't expect the money to be stolen from right under his nose and, even worse, for the prime suspect to be his good friend Ryan Foxglove. Despite the numerous killers standing in his way, Dalton must track down the missing money to prove Ryan's innocence – and stay out of jail.

As a wanted man, Dalton never expected to find himself working as a lawman. But that's just what happens when he rides into Green Creek and the alcoholic Sheriff Holstein press-gangs him into becoming his deputy.   Dalton has no choice but to accept the assignment and soon discovers that the whole town has turned against the sheriff. And if that isn't bad enough, Sharky Bigelow's spree of cattle rustling is reopening an old vendetta and shattering the town's peace with a wave of lawlessness.   To bring peace to Green Creek, Dalton must restore faith in the law. But can he succeed with nobody to trust but himself? Will the deadly aim of his six-shooter be enough?

When Dalton killed a corrupt lawman, Deputy Vaughn pursued him relentlessly, but in Wilmington Point he enjoyed a welcome slice of luck. He came across Dutch Kincaid's Wanted poster and found that the notorious outlaw had been wrongly blamed for his crime.   So when Dalton was tasked with infiltrating Dutch's gang of bank raiders, he readily accepted the duty. He figured that if he could kill Dutch, he could claim the bounty on Dutch's head while his own crime would be officially attributed to a dead man.   But Dalton's dangerous task became even harder when he was partnered with a man who had good reason to kill him and even worse, he still had to face a final showdown with his nemesis Deputy Vaughn.

When Dalton arrives in Warren's Crossing, the recent heavy rain has made passage across Wilmington Creek impossible. So Dalton works for the brothers who operate the ferry, Jesse and Colbert Thornton, and that forces him to take sides in a festering family feud.   After a stint in prison the man who killed the brothers' father, Locke Sharpe, is returning to town to renew his vendetta against them. With Marshal Rutledge Warren siding with Locke and with Jesse becoming trapped on the other side of the creek, the brothers' situation looks desperate.   Dalton resolves to end the feud, and so he embarks on the most hazardous mission of his life to rescue Jesse and to defeat the many forces aligned against them.

Dalton is facing the noose when a lucky break gives him a chance of freedom. He adopts a dead man's identity, but quickly discovers he's made a bad choice when he finds his namesake had been hired to lead a wagon train of settlers on a perilous journey to their new life.   Dalton must become the guide the settlers want him to be although he has no knowledge of the terrain or the dangers lurking ahead. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the notorious Spitzer gang is on their trail, a mysterious stranger may know his identity and one of the settlers is a killer.   With the odds so stacked against him, can Dalton pull off the greatest bluff of his life?

Dalton, an erstwhile gunslinger, settled in the seemingly peaceful town of Two Forks, hoping to put a troubled past behind him, but his plans for a quiet life were shattered when Deke Grant rode into town. Although nobody knew that Deke and his two associates were escaped prisoners, his gun-toting activities soon brought the simmering feuds in the town to a head.   With the feuding threatening to brim over into an orgy of destruction, Dalton stepped in to bring peace to Two Forks.   With no choice but to take up the gun again, he would succeed in his mission or die trying.

Dalton had put his past behind him and made a new life for himself in the town of Two Forks, but now the settlement is facing its greatest ever challenge. The nearby town of Sweet Valley is attracting most of the new homesteaders and the few people that do head toward Two Forks are being attacked by McKinley Vinge's marauding bandit gang.   Dalton resolves to wipe out the bandits, but his mission takes an unexpected twist when he meets a man who knows about his past. With this man being determined to take his revenge, Dalton will need all his cunning to defeat him while not destroying everything he has created in his new life.

When Dalton and Loren Steele happen across an ambushed gold shipment, they are too late to help. Everyone dies, attackers and defenders alike. Being honest men they try to return the gold to Perry Haynes of the Durando Mining Company, its rightful owner, but unbeknown to them Perry has been overthrown.   With corruption and the law of the gun now ruling in Durando they are slammed into jail on the dubious charge of having stolen the very gold they had rescued!   The two men befriend Perry but to help him reclaim his mine, they'll have to strap on their six-shooters and tame the hell-hole that is Durando.

When rancher Cliff Sinclair offers the homesteaders of Two Forks three dollars for an acre of their land, Dalton thinks the deal is just too good to be true. But most of the townsfolk are delighted to take the apparently generous offer – Dalton and his friend Loren Steele are the only ones to say no.   Sadly, Dalton discovers he was right to be suspicious when Cliff's hired gunslinger, Frank Kelley, kills Loren and runs Dalton out of town. So begins Dalton's quest for vengeance that will test his survival instincts and the speed of his gun-hand to the limit.