Following the death of its guide, a wagon train bound for Gun Creek had stalled outside the small town on Conchita. But when Shane Preston and Jonah Jones rode in on the trail of the scar-faced man Shane had sworn to kill, wagon master Huston Whittaker saw an answer to their problems. Whittaker was an old friend of Shane’s, and when he asked for help in getting his emigrants to their destination, the black-clad gunfighter and his crusty old sidekick couldn’t refuse.

The trail ahead was going to be mighty hard, though. Somewhere out in the vast wilderness, a band of renegade Cheyennes were on the warpath. And there was no shortage of problems right inside the wagon train itself. A killer with a price on his head was trying to work his way west to a new life. A fiery half-Mexican girl on the run from a vengeful husband set her cap for the preacher who hoped to bring religion to Gun Creek. And three men masquerading as prospectors were planning a double-cross that would send the wagons and their occupants straight to Hell!

Roger Norris-Green was born in Brighton, UK and emigrated with his parents to Australia when he was a schoolboy. Since leaving Unley High School in South Australia, he has written 140 published westerns under six pen names, plus two under his own name.

Roger had his first western Apache Crossing accepted by the Cleveland Publishing Company when he was a young man in his early 20s, just married, living in the Adelaide Hills. The pen name he used for his very first western was Cole Shelton. He went on to write his Shane and Jonah series under that pen name. Many of his westerns have received "best western of the month" awards. Roger lives with his wife Elaine in Moonta Bay, South Australia. Although retired, he is still writing.