Outlaw Wes Cavanaugh knows that crime doesn't always pay, at least not much. That's why he and his partner, Mose, are willing to pay Jimmy Stock for information on a job that is guaranteed to pay off big. Jimmy has made a career of selling tips to bandits, but the job he sells Wes,a payroll train about to leave Omaha, requires more than information. It requires a straight shooter who can hit targets from a long distance away and in the outlaw business,...

When he loses at the tables on the Delta Jack riverboat, professional gambler Abner Mason has one night to raise all the funds to pay off his debt to the most powerful man on the ship--if only he can stay alive long enough to do so.

Nick Graves is a Mourner. He arranges funerals and organizes gatherings for wakes as well as hangings, supplementing his meager income by making coffins. He's come to this profession he learned from his father after years making his living with a fast draw and a cool nerve. Nick wants to forget his past by assuming a simple life and a quiet vocation. But the town is full of corrupt men who will make it very difficult for Nick to continue the family...

Nick Graves has had a life full of more death than any man can handle. Graves has dealt death as well -- as an outlaw, running with some of the West's most feared gunslingers. Nick's ready to turn his back on his dark past, and live out his existence in the family business -- as a mourner, paid to see to the details of funerals and wakes. But a man's past has a way of staying with him, and soon Nick crosses paths with Barrett, his old partner in crime....