The Cross Family Chronicles

When Reverend Frank Cross and his teenage son Theodore come across a young family murdered in their own home, they discover a single witness who reluctantly identifies the cult responsible for the atrocity. But the law is too afraid to go after the murderers, and Cross must find a way to bring a posse together to make certain evil does not reign unchecked.

Two years after the death of her husband at the hands of the Bloody Espinosas, the Smiling Snake has become a successful bounty hunter in Denver Colorado. An adolescent boy named Mordecai Gray comes to hire her to help hunt down the woman who killed his father. Snake soon discovers that Mordecai and his family were slaves on the Gray Plantation before the Civil War, and the daughter of their former master is hunting down and killing the runaways. Snake must brave the growing cold to hunt down this murderous woman and her hired guns and put a stop to the bloody feud.

Nine years after watching the fall of the House of Gray, Smiling Snake has a reunion with an old friend, Donovan "Mad Dog" Douglas. Mad Dog recruits her to work for his new employer, the powerful banker Richard Farrow, who is a leader among the secret society called "The Builders."