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 ...

Sometimes things aren’t what they seem at first glance.Hope Anderson has been in love with Creede’s bad boy since the first moment she laid eyes on the handsome charmer. And now, he’s given her every indication he’s going to propose. So what’s his problem? Only that he confessed in front of the whole town that he cheated with his best friend’s wife and that he’s the reason she and her newborn son are dead. Hope loves Billy in spite of his obvious flaws, but can she...

A novel theory of how technological revolutions affect the rise and fall of great powersWhen scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center on the moment of innovation—the eureka moment that sparks astonishing technological feats. In this book, Jeffrey Ding offers a different explanation of how technological revolutions affect competition among great powers.Rather tha...

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...

Revenge is best served cold...and with a stiff drink.

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...

Fate often guides us down a troubled path toward happiness. Do we have the courage to take it?Mary O'Brien feels at home among the Southern Mountain Ute tribe. Happy and content for the last fourteen years living among these kind and generous people, she is caught by surprise when a company of soldiers ride through the village and see her—a white woman with fiery red hair. Their commander decides she must be returned to her own kind, and soon she finds herself an o...

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 ...