Lael Buckley began her career as a rodeo professional with her first steer-riding event at the age of fifteen, all because of a dare from her brother.

Lady gambler Mari Marshay decides to give it all up after a gunfight at her poker table kills a man. Leaving a note for the sheriff to locate the man's widow and return the deed to his ranch which was among her winnings, she boards the train called The Prairie Queen. Sheriff Milam has an urgent reason to catch up with Mari: the man has left a four-year-old orphan. But circumstances on that train are heading towards catastrophe. Eventually the train...

The American author writes of her love for the people and places in the West that have inspired her life and work.

A young boy invades a camp of slumbering outlaws, and manages to create so much havoc that he routs all but one of them... Sleeper and his chestnut stallion Careless are rescued from a flash flood by a man named Bones. When Bones is captured by a sheriff's posse for killing two claim-jumpers, it's time for Sleeper to return the favor... Driven from his hometown, Snoozer Mell chooses the life of a gambler. But he has to return-- and his past will pursue...