In D. B. Jackson's novels Thieftaker and Thieves' Quarry, as well as in the story "A Spell of Vengeance," which was published on Tor.com, Kaille has had to deal with a variety of crimes and their perpetrators. The story that follows is one from Kaille's early days as a thieftaker in Boston. In it, he must face a formidable foe, one of a most unexpected sort, whose own powers, very different from his own, prove the equal of Ethan's.Ethan Kaille is a Thieftaker in B...

Levi Jennings, a fifteen-year old preacher's son, is kidnapped by two escaped convicts who execute his parents and take him hostage. The events that ensue threaten to be the undoing of both the boy and his captors.

Ten-year old Matthew Stanford is kidnapped by three Civil War deserters who quit a losing cause and head west . In the wake of a killing spree they leave ex-Army tracker JD Elder for dead. When Elder is nursed back to health by Matthew's mother and learns that her son was kidnapped by the men who attempted to kill him, the hunt is on.Matthew quickly goes from being an overly protected preacher's son to a kid struggling for survival.When Elder, the Confederates, and Matthew ...

Calvin Bonner and his wife lose a newborn child the same year they lose their cattle to a great freeze-up. Destitute and out of options, he turns to robbery. At first, just wayward travelers on a lonely highway— and then he graduates to trains, and finally a bank.The bank job provides him with enough money to quit his life of crime, but fate has more in store for him until he eventually has to come to terms with his wrongdoings in a plot twist we do not see coming.It's a raw ...

Hilarious and colorful episodes in the lives of families... many depicted from a kid's-eye-view... are the theme for this compilation. Being part of a family is often trying, and stranger than any fiction, but never dull and always worth it in the end. Join these very different families as they face the shrinking of parents, the preemptive guilt of First Confession, the secret worlds of children, and more!Included are:Shirley Jackson's CharlesRead by L...

Franklin T. Stilwell, 15, and Brady McCall, 10, are thrown together in St. Joseph, Missouri where their families will join an ill-fated wagontrain heading west in the spring. They quickly become inseparable friends, finagle paying jobs for the winter, and trade their pay for two Indian ponies that will change the course of their lives.Halfway across the unsettled frontier, they are the only survivors of a brutal massacre. Their struggle to survive challenges them on every level and...

The Oxbow Wolves is a story of the struggle between a small wilderness family and a pack of displaced wolves, both looking to survive in a hard environment where there is only room for one or the other. The final conflict comes down to a standoff between the mother of two small children and the matriarch of the wolf pack, both willing to fight to the death to protect their offspring. The final resolution is a heart-rending denouement that could only be reached by two strong mothers.

When a young kid signs on with a cattle drive, the ragtag cow outfit driving the herd turns out to be more than he bargained for. By the time he realizes the hole he has dug for himself, it's too late to turn back.

When Eustace Robertson signs onto a buffalo hunt to earn money for his destitute family, he experiences freedom and paid work for the first time in his life. Just before the sun comes up, he finds himself caught up in a buffalo stampede, riding for his life.

Time-travelers and their Ancient allies must end a tangled misfuture or surrender all to chaos and blood.**Tobias Doljan and his love, Mara Lijar, fifteen-year-olds trapped in adult bodies, have Walked back in time to prevent a war. With the orphaned daughter of their murdered king as their ward, they are pursued over land and sea by armies, time-traveling assassins, and winged demons.Now the time for flight is past. Tobias and Mara must turn and face thei...

A conjurer in Colonial Boston investigates when magic is suspected in a mass killing of British sailors in this fantasy sequel to Thieftaker .Ethan Kaille isn't the likeliest hero. A former sailor with a troubled past, Ethan is a thieftaker, using conjuring skills to hunt down those who steal from the good citizens of Boston. And while chasing down miscreants in 1768 makes his life a perilous one, the simmering political ...

A skilled conjurer in pre-Revolutionary Boston is hired to find a killer in this thrilling debut novel of magic and intrigue."A lean, elegant, intricate tale of a conjurer and a world on the brink of revolution. Fabulous!" —Faith Hunter, bestselling author of the Jane Yellowrock seriesBoston, 1765: Revolution is brewing as the British Crown imposes increasingly onerous taxes on the colonies, and intrigue swirls around firebrands like Samuel...