The Civil War of 1860 was about race. Today’s Civil War is about gender: the battle between Mother Chaos and God the Father. Long before Darwin, Marx, Freud, Machiavelli, and Saul Alinsky, Jesus figured out how to keep power. All people born of a mother are born in fear. No one needs to teach a baby how to cry and protest. In the “Deep State in the Time of Jesus” we see Jesus as a resistance fighter quietly dropped into enemy territory, driven by fear. He quickly chooses his leader Peter t...

Roxane Quinn has worked for years toward becoming the event coordinator for the hotel her father runs in Quinn Valley. As soon as she starts the new position, she hears that the only man she has ever loved has moved back to town and is now running a business out of a taco truck. She’s worried she won’t be able to keep her heart intact with her high school sweetheart so close.Ciran Benedict once thought that being a big-city lawyer was the only thing that mattered in life. He worked...

Abigail Livingston is tired of the uncertainty—are her suitors really interested in her or her father's fortune? The only way to know for sure is to pretend to be someone else. But her plan derails the moment she boards the train to Durango, Colorado.Matthew Bellamy is on a mission. His business and financial future depends upon his ability to keep a certain wealthy debutante out of trouble. But when he loses track of her on the way to her holiday in Colorado, he realizes he's the ...

Reign Phillips has just earned her PhD in ancient languages when her Professor returns from Greece with treasure for the University of New Mexico; fifty-six mummified remains and a puzzling sealed gold casket that doesn't seem to fit any time period.Accompanying him is the man responsible for brokering the deal with the university, Damon Sarantos. Unknown to anyone, Damon himself had buried the casket almost two thousand years before.Reign is a woman Damon can't ignore and ...

Will her lies be her demise?Grace Sinclair is in trouble. When her adopted sister, Faith, is forced to defend her honor against an over-ardent saloon patron, she shoots him in self-defense. But who is going to believe four orphaned females living and working in a saloon are innocent of anything. Grace is convinced that the only chance of saving them all is to leave town in hopes the law will think her guilty and hold the other three girls harmless. A frien...

In the arid Idaho desert, water is power—and murder is profitable.Philip Chandler thought he'd traded Boston's violent headlines for small-town tranquility when he took over the Fremont Herald. But that illusion shatters when a prominent couple is brutally killed, pulling Philip back into a world of ruthless avarice. His investigation leads to Basin 63, the underground aquifer that holds all of the valley's water, and a controversial desert development bac...

What if you discovered the man running for sheriff was also working the wrong side of the law? And what if that man was your intended husband.Last Chance in 1895 is a shadow of what it once was, filled with too many women competing for the few men left to save them from poverty, starvation, and spinsterhood. Closed businesses and broken dreams rule the day, drawing a diversity of men to the struggling town; men on both sides of the law.Esther Sorenson has r...

Love can make a person crazy…the best kind of crazy.Misfit and social pariah Charity Montgomery has heard it all before and she doesn’t give two hoots what anyone thinks about her rough and rowdy ways—well, no one except a certain lawman who ignores her at every turn. If there was just some way to get his attention, she knew she could convince him she was the only woman for him.Miles Grayson has seen every kind of crazy during his years as a lawman, but he ...

When she offers to help plan her older sister’s wedding, Dinky Redfern knows that she’ll have to pack up everything and move to Idaho temporarily. Luckily, this isn’t a big deal, because a) Dinky is able to fit her entire life—including her pet hedgehog—into her beat-up sedan, and b) her sister lives at a beautiful tourist-destination ranch. No hardship at all… until Dinky meets her handsome co-planner, the groom’s Best Man.Jace Cunningham is everything that artistic Dinky isn’t: s...

Can the new light of understanding chase away the darkness of hate?Faith No-Name is getting a second chance at life. For the past two years, her future—indeed, her very life—has been in the hands of a talented young attorney. Now that her life is no longer hanging in the balance, she must worry about her heart for she has done the unthinkable—she’s fallen in love with the handsome Irishman. She has survived the hangman’s noose, but can she survive knowing the unfor...

She wants to save her home; he has the means to save it. Will their fierce tempers spark a blazing love or burn a drought-ravished town to the ground?Cecily James is determined to save Last Chance, Nebraska from another tragedy. As the drought consumes everything around her, she wonders if her prospects are drying up with it. Left alone in a destitute town, she learns of a device that can drill for water previously unreachable. She expects this could be the answer the town prayed f...

Friendships and reputations are on the line, and heartbreak is inevitable.Regina Beckett is no damsel in distress and she certainly isn't looking for a husband. For the last few years, she's stayed just ahead of her parent's matrimonial expectations. But now, an unwanted proposal threatens her freedom, so she decides to make a marriage proposal of her own.John Kingston has always been a ladies' man and one of Durango's most eligible bachelors. He has no plans to shackle him...