Jack R. Stanley

The War of Secession is over. However, between the Rio Grande and the Nueces Rivers, murderers, rapists, horse thieves, and cattle rustlings dominate the land. Trace LaFon and Xavier Falcon are called back into service with the Texas Rangers under Captain Leander McNelly....

What if in the dark, small hours of a morning, you discovered Secret Service agents at your front door telling you that you were now the President of the United States? Porter becomes The Reluctant President and finds out....

Jarvis Dickle’s been murdered - three nails in the top of his head. Down at the Coffee Mug, they’re takin’ bets on who did the town a favor. But ol’ time Sheriff Asa Hunt knows you need to nip this kind of thing in the bud before it can become like a fresh cow patty on a hot day....

Texas never had a law against being stupid. Young Trace LaFon counted that a good thing or he'd never have lived long enough to become a Texas Ranger....

After the Civil War, two young Texas Rangers are fighting a different war along the frontier of West Texas. Apaches from Mexico raid up across the Rio Grande into Texas attacking homesteaders and settlers....

Scott Kaven, a former Houston homicide detective turned private eye, takes on a murder case involving a Green Bay, Wisconsin, escort service and its striking owner....

Joshua Guymon is a small town sheriff in the mostly Mormon Star Valley of Wyoming Territory. This is back in the days when to be Mormon was to be an outsider in the American West....

Ethan Andrews killed a man in Missouri. On purpose. Many would consider the killing justified, but he couldn't take the chance. He thought of himself as a killer. Rather than ruin his family name back in Kentucky, he changed his name and fled west.

A town like Temptation with a town marshal like Ranson Nye tended to attract gunfighters.

Filming a real war isn’t at all like making a Hollywood movie - especially when you’re a combat photographer. Imagine you’re with a squad caught in an ambush. All the fighters – on both sides – have automatic weapons, and all you have is a camera.

A trail robbery and multiple murders end up as the problem of Ranson Nye, town marshal of Temptation, Texas. This town built in the hopes of taking the last dollars from tired cowboys headed back home after cattle drives to Kansas is becoming more than it ever intended to be.

Just before World War I, a young American airman put his bi-plane down on the Mexican side or the Rio Grande. Barney Linedecker always got air sick if he was more than four feet off the ground.

The Corporate War was over in the Matheus quadrant of the spiral Kermerus Galaxy and along with it the careers of many who fought and survived.

Widower and rancher Ranson Nye stopped in Temptation, a "wide open" town on the Texas side of the Red River. He was headed to the Oklahoma Indian Territory to find a new wife and mother for his two children.