Showing results by author "C. Wayne Winkle"

The devastating Civil War is finally ending. Laura Taylor, whose husband Rye is making his way home from the war, stands at her kitchen window. A vision of returning warriors fills her sight. In the distance, a lone soldier in blue. Is that Rye coming home? She has little time to wonder because a family friend, Willie, rides up with news that men are coming to burn the Taylors out. Laura and Rye planned for such an event, and she gets her entire family plus Willie ready to travel.

Micah is retired from the US Marshal's. He is enjoying his time with his family on his ranch. Little does his family know, he is suffering from cancer. He has told no one, as he does not want anyone to worry, or worse yet, make him bed ridden. He gets a telegram from his doctor up at Ft. Smith. When Micah gets to the doctor's office, he finds out his doctor did not send for him. He high tails it back to his ranch and learns his granddaughter has been kidnapped.

Gus Yancey is a more than a middle-aged man who has worked on a ranch in northern Colorado for the past eight years. He's been successful thus far in putting his wild years and the death of his wife behind him. Then he gets news of his granddaughter losing cattle to rustlers. So, in the beginning of a winter that promises to be extra cold, Yancey quits his good winter job on the ranch and sets off for New Mexico to help Cassie, his granddaughter.