More than fifty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith. Dry Creek Crossing, a new full-length novel in the Thunder Mountain series, plus five new short stories; A Lady in Heat: A Marble Grant Story, In the Dream of Many Bodies: A Bryant Street Story, The Last Short Putt of a Fearful Man, Tombstone Canyon (the short story): A Thunder Mountain Story, The Last Man: A Very Early Buckey the Space Pirate Story.

This 43nd volume of Smith's Monthly also includes the final part of The Magic Bakery: A WMG Writer’s Guide; part 1 of which appeared in Smith’s Monthly #42.