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"The stories in Lone Star Law trace the Texas Rangers from their inception in the 1820s to the early twentieth century--roughly the first hundred years of their storied history. From fending off hostile Comanche to tartegting rustlers and aiming Winchesters at ruthless outlaw ga...

When her friend Georgia Hallerbee asks Phyllis to have her house featured in the annual Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes, Phyllis is equally flattered and flustered. She already has a bridal shower on Christmas Eve and a wedding on New Year's Eve to prepare for, and she's been...

Delilah Dickinson is in a charge of a tourist group taking a cruise on a Mississippi riverboat. She's not anticipating any problems, but trouble rears its ugly head when one of the members of her tour group turns up dead. His neck's broken and it's definitely not an accident.

Cole Tyler rode with Jeb Stuart leading wagon trains across the West. Now he's wearing a star in Wind River, Wyoming Territory, where trouble is brewing. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler and his d...

Buffalo hunter Cole Tyler rode with Jeb Stuart leading wagon trains across the West. Now he's riding the very first train into Wind River, its cars packed with saloonkeepers and swampers eager to make a killing. Within minutes, a prominent citizen lies dead. Within hours, Tyler i...

"Ransom Valley: The Wyoming Territory town of Wind River has gotten so peaceful that some people think it's downright civilized. But they don't know that a gang of outlaws is planning a raid that will clean out the bank. Anyone who gets in their way will be cut down in a hail of ...

Phyllis Newsom and friends Carolyn and Sam whip up their best dishes to win some ribbons at the Texas State Fair. And one of their favorite celebrity chefs, Joye Jameson, is broadcasting her TV show from the fair. Joye invites Phyllis and the other finalists for best funnel cake ...

"While Phyllis Newsom and her friend Carolyn bake up yummy Halloween treats, housemate Sam adopts an adorable Dalmatian who was hit by a car. To thank veterinarian Hank Baxter for helping the dog, Phyllis and Carolyn bake a batch of doggie treats for his four-legged patients. But...

"It's Halloween in Weatherford, Texas-which means Phyllis Newsom is baking up a storm of yummy seasonal treats ... but she's about to get even busier unmasking a killer. While Phyllis and her friend Carolyn are preparing for a baking contest, her housemate Sam adopts Buck, an ado...

Winter howled across Wyoming Territory the day Yancy Rowlett announced he'd struck it rich, mining in Montana. Then Henry Turner, the big man in the bearskin coat, showed up in Wind River, accusing Yancy of murder. As the wolves circled, all-out war blazed in the small town ripe ...

Cured from a deadly fever, Deputy Casebolt owed his life to the mysterious stream the Indians called Medicine Creek. But when cattle started disappearing and bullets flying, the shocking truth behind the rustlers and the legend of Medicine Creek surfaced at last.

Phyllis Newsom serves a candy cane cupcake to rancher Barney McCrory at the Weatherford, Texas, tree-lighting ceremony, but when the cupcake is finished, so is he. Paramedics determine Barney was shot, and suspicion falls on his daughter and her husband. But something about this ...

"On Hank Littleton's first assignment as a Texas Ranger, he shows how his crack-shot aim can stop the careful escape plan of a group of prisoners being escorted to Austin. Then his captain again pairs him with war veteran Joe Casebolt on a do-or-die assignment: catch the notoriou...

The chili in Texas is red-hot ... and so is murder! Phyllis, Sam, Carolyn, and Eve head for West Texas to compete in a Fourth of July chili cookoff. Thousands of people have descended on a sleepy little ghost town, turning it into a boomtown for chili mavens, gamblers, musicians,...

"It's early summer in Weatherford, Texas, and retired teacher/amateur sleuth Phyllis Newsom and fellow retiree Carolyn Wilbarger are taking British cooking classes at the local senior center in this suspenseful Fresh-Baked mystery. While Sam Fletcher is playing dominoes with the ...

The railhead has moved on, and in its wake civilization has finally come within spitting distance of Wind River. But not everybody is glad to see it coming. For saloon owner Hank Parker, it seems like civilization wants to run him out of business. For pretty widow Simone McKay, i...

"Phyllis and her friends Carolyn and Sam are ready to whip up their best dishes for the state fair in Dallas and eager to meet one of their favorite celebrity chefs--Joye Jameson. When Phyllis's funnel cake is picked as one of the best of that category, Joye invites her and the o...