Silas Whitmore

Burl 'Banjo' Bennett is a drifter, a gambler, and a man with a past he doesn't care to talk about. Known for his quick hands, sharper tongue, and the battered banjo slung across his back, Burl rides from town to town chasing cards, coin, and trouble...

Rough-hewn, sharp-eyed, and born for the wild, Charlie Tingwell roams the high country alone—by choice and by nature. But when a brutal winter storm forces him down from the mountains and into a troubled frontier town, Charlie finds himself drawn into...

Edward 'Eddie' Ellison wasn't born to the mountains — but the mountains made him a man. Fleeing a past he'd rather forget, Eddie finds solitude and purpose in the wild Rockies, living by his rifle and his wits.But when a ruthless gang threatens the...

After two years trapping alone in the high country, Gideon Gooch has plenty of pelts — but nothing to come home to. Haunted by memories of his parents' quiet happiness, he sets out for the spring rendezvous with a bold idea: trade his furs, and find...

He rode beside him once.Now he must stop him.When settlers begin vanishing along the upper timberline, Zebedee Titus recognizes the pattern long before others do. The killings are precise. The cabins burned clean. The message unmistakable.Winter Wolf...

When hardened mountain man Howard 'Hawk' Hudson stumbles across a half-starved orphan named Elijah in the high country, he intends to do no more than point the boy toward safety. But the wilds of the Rockies have other plans. Forced together by...

Mack McQuire is a loner, a trapper, and a man who speaks more with his rifle than with words. Roaming the high wilds with a packhorse and a flintlock, Mack wants nothing but peace, pelts, and open sky.But when he trades furs for a beautiful young...

Grizzled, silent, and deadly with a long rifle, Murdock Lancer is a man few cross and none forget. Living alone in the high passes with only his past for company, he's sworn off the world—until a cry for help pulls him back into it. When a widowed...

Winter buries secrets.But not all of them stay buried.When Zebedee Titus finds five government surveyors dead in the snow near Split River, the scene looks like tribal retaliation. Moccasin tracks circle the bodies. Stakes marking a future railroad...

The Powder Road is gone.The freight conspiracies are finished.But iron does not arrive in secret.It arrives with law.When federal surveyors stake a railroad line straight through Split River basin, Zebedee Titus knows this fight will not be like the...

Winter came early.And it did not leave.When an unforgiving storm seals the high passes weeks before the last supply wagons arrive, the mountain settlements are cut off from the world. Game disappears beneath ice. Livestock die in their stalls. Smoke...

Titus 'Turnip' Turner – A scrappy, wiry mountain man known more for his stubbornness than his aim. Formerly a failed farmer in Missouri, he wandered west and earned his nickname after surviving a hard winter on nothing but stolen turnips. He's clever,...