THE SEARCHER SERIES
by Len Levinson writing as Josh Edwards

Lodestone prides itself on being the fastest-growing town in Colorado, but John Stone knows a con game when he sees one. And this is a con the size of the Rockies. The low-down varmints running the scam don't want to see him meddling—they'd rather see him dead. Stone's dodging bullets…and getting ready to fight back. Once, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position, and a woman who loved him. But that was before the Civil War. Now, he's lost his fortune: and his fiancée has disappeared. All he has left is his Colt, a picture of Marie, and a mission—to roam the West until he finds the woman he loves.

Getting ambushed by a pair of army deserters in the New Mexico desert wasn't part of John Stone's plans. He'd just left a job herding cattle in Texas, hot on a lead that his long-lost Marie was in Fort Hays. But she's no longer there, as Stone learns in the stockade—where he's charged with desertion. Now he has to prove he's a civilian, and fast. The outpost is turning into a hellhole. General Custer's caught between Sioux warriors and murderous subordinates—and it looks like Stone will have to take them on all by himself

Driving three thousand head of Cassandra Whiteside's cattle into a town called Sundust, John Stone expected the usual gunplay with rustlers and bandits. But this time Stone collects double rations of deep trouble—and he'll need more than a fast draw to get out of Sundust alive. Two long-riding gunslingers, driven by a burning hatred of John Stone, share a single ambition; to bury Stone beneath the dry sod of Sundust—or die trying.

It's John Stone's first cattle drive, and it won't be an easy ride - especially since he's traveling with a band of vagabonds and desperadoes. But he'd brave anything to get one step closer to the women he loved and lost ... The journey over the Chisholm Trail is even more dangerous than he expected. Menaced by rustlers, a Comanche war party and one man with an insatiable thirst for vengeance, Stone fears his first cattle drive could also be his last ...

John Stone didn't expect too much from the Texas range - just the chance he'd be reunited with the only woman he ever loved. But that was before he laid eyes on Cassandra Whiteside, the beautiful mistress of the Triangle Spur ranch ... and a dead ringer for his long-lost Marie. It doesn't take long for Stone to get on the bad side of the old colonel who calls the Triangle Spur and Cassandra his private property. And after a wild night of salooning, Stone adds a pair of scheming cowhands and the wicked owner of a rival ranch to his dance card of enemies. Who said ranches live longer than soldiers?

After a near-fatal attack by a band of outlaws led by an old friend of his, John Stone is brought back to the outlaws' hideout, where Sally Drake nurses him back to health, while her jealous boyfriend decides Stone doesn't deserve the chance to recover.

The settlers were on their way to a new life in Texas, while John Stone was stirring up the ashes of a life that died with the war. Still, he signed on to act as a scout for their wagon train. Maybe Marie had found her way to Texas. Maybe he'd find someone who'd seen her ... John Stone wonders if he'll ever find peace. It's a good bet he won't find it on the way to Tucson - not with a band of Mexican cut-throats after him, sworn to avenge the death of their vicious leader. And not while the desert is home to the marauding Apache! Even if Stone can dodge the bullets and arrows, ahead lies the vast desert itself - more merciless than any battlefield he's ever faced!

Sheriff Buck Rawlins was a hero ... years ago. The next-to-last-thing he needed was a man like John Stone stopping a bank robbery single-handed, reminding folks what a real hero looked like. The last thing Rawlins needed was John Stone as his deputy. Now Stone is on the right side of the law, but the wrong side of the sheriff - with Deke Casey's outlaw gang gunning for him, it's a mighty dangerous place to be ...

John Stone came to Dumont in search of his love. Instead, he found himself caught in the middle of a bloody war of revenge when Hank Dawon's son was found dead. Stone falls under suspicion - and he's about to find out what he will do to survive...

Once, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position, and a woman who loved him. But that was before the Civil War. Now he's lost his fortune, and his fiancée has disappeared. All he has left is his Colt, a picture of Marie, and a mission: to roam the West until he finds the woman he loves. The settlers were on their way to a new life in Texas, while John Stone was stirring up the ashes of a life that died with the war. Still, he signed on to act as a scout for their wagon train. Maybe Marie had found her way to Texas ... Maybe he'd find someone who'd seen her... Or maybe he'd die on the trail, killed by Indians, outlaws or thirst. Either way, John Stone had a dream. And nothing could stand in his way.