Barnaby Skye, a pressed seaman in the Royal Navy, jumps ship at Fort Vancouver in 1826 with little more than the clothes on his back and a belaying pin for a weapon.
Taken in by the Lamar Gang after being jailed and falsely accused of robbing a bank with them, Doyle helps the gang in their endeavors as they traverse through the West, obstructing justice to survive-as only men with a price on their heads can.
Scorched by love's intensity in past relationships, a couple risks getting burned again in Candis Terry's Sweet Surprise, the fourth Sweet, Texas novel.
Tommy Quinn, after being kidnapped and raised as the Apache chief's son for ten years, was found among the dead on an Apache ranch raid outside of Abilene, Texas.