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We want them all run out...gamblers, rustlers, gunslingers...every mother's son of them. They hired a legend to clean up their town - but he's old now. Can the Marshall still handle it - or is he headed for Boot Hill?

Stranger in Black is about a woman, deserted by her husband who has become a gunfighter, and her subsequent difficulties in raising two boys on her own.

Adam Rait just wants to guide his crew across the state of Texas, deliver his cargo, and get paid. But his convoy is almost immediately joined by mysterious Mexican travelers - the beautiful and mysterious Angel de Acera and her brother, Bernal. When Kurt Hanover, the man running the deal and Rait's employer is murdered, Rait is left wondering what he should do with an entire wagon train of smuggled arms?

In this duo's title story, 28-year-old Dave Bradford is close to achieving his dreams. In an effort to expand his cattle ranch and marry Sirral Drury, Bradford plans to sell 400 of his cattle in Wichita. But JJ Farman, owner of the biggest ranch in the basin, calls a meeting and warns Bradford he best not try to take the cattle across Texas Flat, even though it's open range. Going around Texas Flat would add two hundred miles to the cattle drive, another 10-12 days to the journey.

Recently released from prison, Dade Lockett was serving time as an accessory to robbery. His partner in crime, Pete Dillard, was not captured. In fact Dillard abandoned Lockett during the chase, taking all the money with him. While on his way to confront Dillard and settle the score, Lockett witnesses a raid on a ranch defended by a young woman, her younger brother, and an old man. The last thing Lockett wants is to be distracted from his purpose, but his fundamental sense of decency compels him to act.

He pulled a second blade from his boot and sent it flashing after the first. Knife-fighter Abner Galvan must save a desperate woman from a depraved army general. One mistake and there'll be eight bullets in his chest, firing squads never miss.

Bill Thompson had a reputation as a gunfighter, but in recent years he has been doing his killing on the side of the law. This is how he has come to be known as The Regulator. But there are those who questioned his practices, since Thompson is inclined to act as judge and executioner, trying suspects himself and disposing of them without need of a trial.