Bøker utgitt av Langdon Pierce

Attending a funeral in St. Louis, Sam Dollar is drawn into a poker game where he wins a horse. Upon collecting the bet, he ends up buying two other horses as well. Which fact leads him to decided to ride back to Arizona after picking up his son, Logan, from school in Austin, Texas. On the road, he comes across a young woman, Madeline Starrett and her daughter, Grace. Upon finding that they were abandoned by her husband's family, Sam knows he must put things right. Especially when he is told they've taken her infant son with them.The Taylor brothers, Curt and Byron run Prospect County. When he is struck on the head by a tree blasted by lightning, Madeline and her daughter are kidnapped by Byron Taylor. Friend's from Sam's past, Slim and Zelda Cavanaugh, take care of him, even while they are avoiding Byron themselves.Concerned by the telegrams he has sent to his wife, Katie, she and his best friend, Hugh O'Hanlon, join Sam. Together, they plan to re-unite the family, as well as bring to justice the men who have taken the law into their own hands. An almost hanging, a fire at the Social Hall and a final meeting with Byron await them. To win, Sam must risk everything: Katie, Logan and his life.

Traveling from Wickenburg on his way to California, the stagecoach is waylaid by Indians and Sam is wounded. Dragged to safety by one of the passengers, they witness another of the passengers, Georges Latrelle, shooting, killing and scalping the driver, messenger and other passengers, to make it look like they were he up by Indians. Sam is too hurt to give testimony and his fellow passenger, Ben Shaw, is in a hurry to get to California, himself. While in Ehrenburg on the Colorado River, Sam is invited to sail on a steamship, the Fortunado, along the coast and around the cape of Baja California. The poker games entice, and the owner of the ship, Alejandro Mateos, intent on making a go of his shipping business, needs his help against pirates. Elizabeth Fourchette, accomplice of Georges, is being squeezed out by Alejandro's sister, Adelita, and she uses poisoned wine to try to get her way. Seeing that he survived the stagecoach robbery, Sam isn't too keen on tracking down the mastermind, Georges Latrelle. However, their paths keep crossing and when Georges tosses him overboard into the Sea of Cortez, that is the last straw. Sam must see this through to the end, even if it takes a Poker Contest in San Francisco to do it.