Avalon Books

Tilman Wagner receives a telegram for help from long-time friend John McCandless Law, an army captain serving at Fort Davis, Texas. John's daughter, Lomida, and the girl's young schoolteacher, Madeline Brown, have fallen into the hands of Mexican bandits. The leader of the bandits, Chuy...

Tilman Wagner’s peaceful family life in Buena Vista, Colorado, takes a sudden change when he accepts the offer of a sheriff’s badge to stop a fast-moving gang of robbers who strike and then disappear. Prosper Charbonneau, a powerful man with a cleaned-up past, now seeks...

Tilman Wagner is back, this time with his new wife Catherine and her son. In response to a telegraphed plea for help from Catherine's sister-in-law, Esperanza, the new family is on its way to the New Mexico Territory to help Catherine's brother try to save...

When a telegram informs Tilman Wagner that his only son Dan has been brutally murdered, Tilman sets out from Texas to find the truth. Who killed Dan, and why did he have to die? The questions surrounding his son's death haunt him as he makes...