The town of Wolf Bait, western Wyoming, held only bitter memories for Ashford Larkin. When he first arrived he had reason and purpose in his life, and his saddle bags had been full of hope. Then his cattle had stampeded, he had been shot, and his pard had been killed. Now, all he had left was his courage. Larkin did not know for sure the identity of the sidewinder who'd set him up, but with a price on his head and vengeance in his heart, Larkin was...

When society widow and gossip columnist Lady Jane Winters joined the fishing class, she wasted no time in ruffling the feathers-or was it the fins? -of those around her. Among the victims of her sharp tongue and unladylike manner was Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth. Yet not even Hamish thought someone would permanently silence Lady Jane's shrills-until her strangled body is fished out of the river. Now with the help of the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe,...