RO Lane Books in Order

Newly appointed U.S. marshal Will Fain is sent to West Texas with a badge, a string of fine horses, and orders to tame a lawless region. From a ranch near San Angelo he takes on deserters, raiders, and rustlers in country the army can’t always reach.

Texas Ranger Jubal Coe rides home to find his cabin burned and his family murdered. Sworn to hunt down the men responsible, he follows a bloody trail across the frontier, torn between cold revenge and the code that once made him a lawman.

A frontier prospector stumbles onto the legend of a hidden iron-door mine and learns that finding it may be less dangerous than keeping it. Treasure fever draws in outlaws, speculators, and killers, forcing him to choose between riches and doing what’s right.

An escape from the Santa Angela jail sends Will Fain and deputy Isum Wood after a ruthless murderer and his brothers. Their chase exposes a counterfeiting ring, a vengeful posse, and fresh danger at the Fain ranch just as Will’s family is growing.

In his second outing, Will Fain discovers a cache of Spanish treasure hidden on his land and becomes a target for every greedy killer in West Texas. With deputy Isum Wood, he chases criminals from dusty frontier towns to Fort Griffin and back to the Fain ranch.

Air Force Brats is a love story about two people shaped by growing up in military families, always moving and never quite settling. Years later, shared memories of bases and brief friendships pull them back together and force them to decide what home really means.

Dred Jones is tired of drifting, but the trail won’t let go of him. When trouble follows him into a quiet town, he has to face old enemies, new grudges, and the question of whether a gunfighter can truly start over.

After a brutal wrong shatters his family, Ethan sets out not simply for revenge but for justice in a land that often confuses the two. His search for the men responsible leads through corrupt towns, lonely ranches, and the gray areas of frontier law.

Cole Flynn is still considered just a kid when he hires on at a widow’s ranch and discovers a brutal gang intends to steal it out from under her. Standing up for her land forces Cole to grow up fast, gun in hand.

When a drifter stumbles across someone the town dismisses as “Muffin” and not worth the trouble, he decides he can’t ride on. His choice to save Muffin pits him against a powerful abuser and gives both of them a fragile chance at a different life.

Trying to walk away from the Rangers doesn’t last long for Jubal Coe. Called back to track brutal escapees from Huntsville Prison, he rides into border towns, ambushes, and new assignments that show a paladin’s work is never really finished.

A drifting gambler expects only cards and short-lived friendships until a group of orphans lands in his care. Keeping them fed, safe, and together pulls him into shootouts, swindles, and one last chance to become the kind of man they believe he is.

A single poker chip, marked in blood, is all that ties a saloon killing to a larger crime. When a quiet cowhand pockets it, he’s drawn into a deadly struggle with crooked gamblers, town bosses, and the woman who may be lying to them all.

With his reputation made, Will Fain’s fifth adventure pulls him into new trouble on the West Texas frontier. Range disputes, ambushes, and a ruthless outlaw band threaten both his badge and the hard-won peace of the Fain ranch.

Book four sends Will Fain after Dick “Pie-eyed” Muller, the outlaw who murdered two deputy marshals and fled into Mexico. Stripped of his badge and condemned by Mexican authorities, Will must survive a firing squad while Isum Wood and Del Cole race to save him.

Now a seasoned lawman with loyal deputies at his side, Will Fain rides farther from home to answer calls for help. He faces clever rustlers and town bosses who think they’re beyond federal reach, testing how far justice can stretch without breaking.

In Book 7, Will Fain and his deputies follow a trail of killings that links distant frontier towns, uncovering a network of bandits who profit from chaos. To shut them down, he must risk his family’s safety and the quiet life he’s tried to build.

The eighth Will Fain novel brings the marshal’s long fight for order to a peak, as old enemies resurface and a powerful new threat rises along the border. Will must call on every friend and skill he has to protect both his district and his home.

Poverty sends Noah away to seek a future with Emily, but misunderstanding convinces him she has married someone else. Back in Durango, Emily searches for the man she still loves, hoping for another chance to choose him.

Rumors of rich Yavapai gold set ranchers, miners, and outlaws at each other’s throats. Caught in the middle, a straight-shooting cowboy has to decide how much he’s willing to risk for a strike that could change—or destroy—everyone’s future.

Dora Mae Puckett grows up poor and underestimated, yet keeps finding ways to survive on a ruthless frontier. When a chance at land and love appears, she must decide whether to risk everything on people who may or may not deserve her trust.

Hank is a plainspoken cowboy with a talent for trouble and a stubborn moral streak. When a routine job reveals a scheme that will crush small ranchers, he decides to fight back against men far richer and meaner than he is.

After a deadly fight lands him in the Wyoming Territorial Prison, Jake McClure serves his time and walks out with little more than his name. Taking a job with a struggling widow, he battles rustlers, pride, and his own reputation to give them both a fresh start.

Lincoln Poe accepts a U.S. marshal’s badge and steps into a territory seething with bushwhackers, cattle thieves, and crooked officials. Determined to do the job right, he risks friends and safety to give one violent region its first taste of real law.

Lucy Garrett is a frontier woman who refuses to stay in the background while men decide her fate. Faced with violence, loss, and unwanted suitors, she stakes a claim on her own land and future, surprising everyone who underestimates her.

In a boom-and-bust town called Mariposa, fortunes rise and fall overnight. A quiet newcomer is drawn into feuds over land, cattle, and water rights, and discovers that standing up for one family will change the whole valley.

In Milo’s War, a young soldier is forged in battle and then has to live with what the fighting made of him. The story follows him from brutal campaigns back to the uneasy peace afterward, where loyalty and old wounds collide on the home front.

Nash Cline lies about his age to join the army, survives brutal fighting, and comes home with a stubborn sense of justice. In Denver he teams with war buddy Felix Wasson, building a detective business that takes them into dangerous, lawless country.

When a hardened border criminal guns down two young Texas Rangers, Jubal Coe straps on his Colt and heads south. Riding with a grieving father into outlaw country, he confronts a killer whose cruelty forces Jubal to face his own hunger for vengeance.

Taken from a mercy train as a boy, Thatch Elliott is given a chance at a real home. Years later he adopts two more orphans, builds a ranch, and fights kidnappers and greedy neighbors to keep the family he’s chosen.

Frontier physician Rose carves out a practice in a rough town that doesn’t quite trust a lady doctor. When an injured outlaw lands in her care, she’s pulled into a tangle of posses, secrets, and an uneasy attraction that could cost them both their lives.

Elliott and his grandfather share a bond built on stories, chores, and quiet rides across open country. When trouble threatens the old man’s small spread, the two generations stand together, proving that courage and kindness can be passed down like heirlooms.

Mose Cabot leaves Virginia as a teenager, working steamboats west until he reaches Montana Territory. There he teams up with a lost boy, Gabriel Allsop, first to work a hardrock claim and then to carve out a horse ranch in the Bitterroot Valley.

Muddy Tilghman grows up in river bottoms and backcountry swamps, more at home in mud than on main street. After a violent betrayal, he uses that hard-won knowledge of hidden trails to outmaneuver killers and protect the few people who stood by him.

Nash Cline’s life as a Denver detective hits a crossroads when a five-year-old boy is taken by Arapaho raiders on the eve of his wedding to Ada. Joined by Felix, he rides across the West to rescue the child and tackle a string of violent new cases.

Navarro has long ridden the shadow line between outlaw and hired hand. When he agrees to escort a wagon train through dangerous country, past choices catch up with him and he must choose once and for all which side of the law he’s willing to die on.

Ronan O’Higgins comes to the American West with an Irish accent, a quick temper, and not much else. From railroad camps to cattle country, he must decide whether to stay a hired gun or build the kind of life his parents crossed an ocean to dream about.

Ruble Perkins is the youngest U.S. marshal anyone can remember, handed a star before he’s fully grown. Determined to prove he deserves it, he faces hardened killers who see only a boy—until his courage and stubborn fairness force them to take him seriously.

Young Ruby Ringo steps up as trail boss after her grandfather dies, driving a herd from South Texas toward Abilene. When outlaws wipe out her crew and steal the cattle, she and a lone cowboy fight across Indian Territory to reclaim her herd and her future.

Gamblin’ Man follows a professional card player who treats life, love, and danger like hands to be played. When he spots a rigged game that will ruin a decent family, he has to bet everything he owns—including his freedom—to set it right.

Drifter Johnny Hayes tries to keep his head down, but trouble keeps finding him: crooked sheriffs, bullied townsfolk, and ranch wars he never asked to join. Each step west forces him to decide whether he’s just passing through or finally ready to stand his ground.

Okefenokee Rifles traces a volunteer company drawn from the harsh swamplands as war erupts. Lane follows the men from enlistment through brutal campaigns and back to their altered home, balancing battle scenes with the families waiting in the conflict’s shadow.

Inspired by old tales of Sheriff Plummer’s hidden hoard, this novel follows a small crew of miners and ranchers hunting for stolen gold. The deeper they dig, the more they uncover about greed, betrayal, and what that treasure has already cost the territory.

A quiet woodcutter who prefers trees to towns finds his solitude shattered when a wounded stranger staggers into his camp. Protecting the man drags him into a deadly feud, forcing him to trade his axe for a rifle and rediscover his buried courage.

Coltrane and Calvin are unlikely partners—a seasoned trail hand and a younger drifter—who fall in together after a bloody encounter. Their first adventure tests their loyalty as they face rustlers, range fires, and a ruthless land baron who wants them gone.

Coltrane and Calvin undertake a dangerous journey to return a stolen fortune to a Texas cattleman. Robbers and other threats test their partnership, while the family's efforts to establish its New Mexico ranch demand equal determination.

Calvin and Diego come into their own as vaqueros, driving cattle, training horses and supplying the Army. While Calvin continues studying law, the friends discover new opportunities and face the dangers surrounding life on the range.

Waylon Nance grows up hard in a back-country hollow, learning early that the law doesn’t always protect the poor. As a man he becomes the one neighbors call when bullies ride in, but every new fight raises the stakes for the people he loves.

Wilbur is a big-hearted misfit whose strength makes him useful with cattle and dangerous in a fight. When he takes in someone weaker than himself, he finds a purpose that matters more than wages and learns how costly it can be to protect what’s yours.

Young lawyer Calvin Morrow discovers that clients can be as deceptive as the adversaries he faces. As his career takes unexpected turns, professional judgment and frontier survival converge in a fight to protect himself and his family.

After the Civil War, a young man travels from New Mexico to his father's East Texas property hoping to rebuild. Economic ruin has bred desperation and violence, and an enemy is determined to take his inheritance.

After robbers kill his mining partner and steal their gold, Moe Hankins becomes a marshal while seeking justice. A dying man's final request leads him on another long search, toward a woman wary of trusting anyone.

A widowed engineer rebuilds his life on a Wyoming ranch and adopts a boy named Tom. Years later, Tom's love for a Scottish girl faces her father's fierce opposition, testing the family and future he hopes for.

Rail detective Callum Devlin survives a violent attack on a train carrying mint gold and sets out after the gang. An unexpected romance gives him another reason to live, even as his pursuit of revenge grows dangerous.

Fresh from prison, Alabama Whitworth enters a hurried marriage and discovers real affection for his bride, Hattie. But the man her father originally chose refuses to accept her decision, turning their new life into a struggle.

Widower Luke Parker finds business success and a new family in Gold Rush San Francisco. When his daughter is kidnapped, the life he has rebuilt is threatened, forcing him to confront the violence he will use to protect it.

After burying his murdered nephew, Atticus McKenna sets out to punish the killer. Each act of vengeance brings another response, drawing him into an increasingly personal conflict that narrows toward a final confrontation with his tormentor.

In 1830, two boys leave Virginia's Great Dismal Swamp determined to see the Rocky Mountains. Driving freight along the Santa Fe Trail and learning the beaver trade, they build a friendship through the opportunities of the frontier.

A Wyoming homesteading family cannot afford to hire the stranger who offers help, but Dutch stays anyway. As a powerful cattleman uses violence to drive settlers out, his quiet assistance becomes a stand against an escalating threat.

Fleeing Ireland's famine, a family struggles in New York until their teenage son earns money as a prizefighter. Forced to leave, he builds another boxing career in New Orleans and seeks a lasting home in Texas.

A train robbery leaves a Texas rancher wounded and the woman he loves abducted. While he pursues the gang, she escapes toward Deadwood, where their shared dream of opening a store keeps hope of reunion alive.

Ezra, Pip and Fredo travel from New Orleans toward California, where a large ranch offers the future they want. Retrieving savings, reuniting families and pursuing love test their partnership as they establish themselves under Mexican rule.

Ezra and Pip struggle to secure legal ownership of their California ranch while developing cattle, sheep and vineyards. When they shelter a fugitive from slavery, armed pursuers threaten the home and partnership they have worked to build.

Nellie builds a family near a Polish settlement in Texas, only to lose her husband to murder. Joining two women widowed by the same killer, she plans to force a confession and secure the justice they need.

Bounty hunter Jess Tucker helps an aging friend whose granddaughter and cattle have been taken into Mexico. The rescue leads through desert dangers toward a struggle to protect the family's Texas ranch and an unexpected chance at love.

Sent to southern Colorado by the governor, Nash Cline and Felix pursue a criminal gang and help two orphaned children. Their detective work continues with a hunt for murderous stagecoach robbers, testing their judgment and loyalty.

Traveling south from San Francisco, a bricklayer encounters a family whose ranch is threatened by fraudulent taxes and armed men. Drawn into their struggle, he helps resist a corrupt lawyer while finding a place among them.

Their late father's letters lead Burt and Maria toward an Arizona gold discovery and a dream of settling on the Mogollon Rim. Recovering the treasure means surviving a dangerous journey while coming to understand the parent they barely knew.

When a deputy's family disappears during a visit to Mexico, Will Fain and Isum cross the border to investigate. An arrest and a powerful man's old claim on the deputy's wife turn their rescue mission perilous.