The Searcher (Western)

The settlers were on their way to a new life in Texas, while John Stone was stirring up the ashes of a life that died with the war. Still, he signed on to act as a scout for their wagon train. Maybe Marie had found her way to Texas. All he has left is his Colt, a picture of Marie, and a mission—to roam the west until he finds the woman he loves.

Once, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position and a woman who loved him. That was before the Civil War. Now he’s lost his fortune and his fiancée has disappeared. Stone came to Dumont in search of his love. Instead, he found himself under suspicion for the death of Hank Dawson's son – and he’s about to find out what he will do to survive.

John Stone - a man with a mission: to search for the woman he loved. Only he has to roam the West to achieve this goal. Sheriff Buck Rawlins was a hero … years ago. The next-to-last-thing he needed was a man like John Stone stopping a bank robbery single-handed, reminding folks what a real hero looked like. The last thing Rawlins needed was John Stone as his deputy. It’s a dangerous place to be.

The Searcher, John Stone wonders if he’ll ever find peace. It’s a good bet he won’t find it on the way to Tucson, not with a band of Mexican cut-throats after him, sworn to avenge the death of their leader. And not while the desert is home to the marauding Apache. Even if Stone can dodge the bullets and arrows, ahead lies the vast desert itself, more merciless than any battlefield he's ever faced.

After a near-fatal attack by a band of outlaws led by an old friend of his, John Stone is brought back to the outlaws' hideout, where Sally Drake nurses him back to health, while her jealous boyfriend decides Stone doesn't deserve the chance to recover.

John Stone still searches for his long-lost love, Marie. All that is about to change when he meets Cassandra Whiteside, the beautiful mistress of the Triangle Spur ranch ... and a dead ringer for Marie. It doesn’t take long for Stone to get on the bad side of the old colonel who calls the Triangle Spur and Cassandra his private property. Who said ranches live longer than soldiers?

It’s John Stone’s first cattle drive, and it won’t be an easy ride. But he’d brave anything to get one step closer to the women he loved and lost. The journey over the Chisholm Trail is even more dangerous than he expected. Menaced by rustlers, a Comanche war party and one man with an insatiable thirst for vengeance, Stone fears his first cattle drive could also be his last.

Driving three thousand head of Cassandra Whiteside’s cattle into a town called Sundust, John Stone expected the usual gunplay with rustlers and bandits. But this time Stone collects double rations of deep trouble—Two long-riding gunslingers, driven by a burning hatred of John Stone, share a single ambition; to bury Stone beneath the dry sod of Sundust - or die trying...

Getting ambushed by a pair of army deserters in the New Mexico desert wasn't part of John Stone's plans. He'd just left a job herding cattle in Texas, hot on a lead that his long-lost Marie was in Fort Hayes. But she's no longer there, as Stone learns in the stockade—where he's charged with desertion. Now he has to prove he's a civilian, and fast.

John Stone knows a con game when he sees one. The low-down varmints of Lodestone running the scam don’t want to see him meddling—they’d rather see him dead. Stone’s dodging bullets...and getting ready to fight back. All he has left is his Colt, a picture of his fiancée Marie, and a mission—to roam the West until he finds the woman he loves.

With six good men murdered in a single smoking night, Woodlawn was starting to feel more like a cemetery than a town. John Stone had no plans to stick around ... until the local killers sparked his wrath by gunning down his riding companion. Pinning on the tin star, Stone declares martial law. It’s the bloodiest range war west of the Missouri. And Stone would rather die than declare a truce...