Ranger to Reckon With

Nate Stewart's parents and older brother are brutally murdered by a gang of raiders on the Texas plains, and Nate is left for dead. But a company of Texas Rangers saves his life, and through a twist of fate, Nate proves himself as a provisional Ranger. At fourteen years old, he's too young to join the ranks of the Rangers just yet-but he's not too young to seek out the men who killed his family!

From fighting with a knife to imbibing his first bottle of tequila, Nate learns some much-needed lessons in growing up. But when he and pal Hoot Harrison confront a gang of bank robbers, Nate is faced with self-doubt.

A bloody confrontation with the pale-eyed devil who leads the band of marauders comes unexpectedly-quickly, violently-and ends with the deaths of more innocent ranch hands in a raid eerily similar to the one that took Nate's family. Only this time, Nate isn't the green youngster he was before. He's got a gun and he knows how to use it. He's A RANGER TO RECKON WITH...