Jessup Pike's vision was clear. When the War Between the States ended and the South began to produce again, his land in the north would quickly lose value as would the crops he raised and timber he harvested. While considering his family's future, he seized on President Lincoln signing the Homestead as an answer, seeing clearly how western land was cheap and could be had for little while ranching would be soon an answer to growing cities feeding their people.Off fighting for the Uni...

The saga of Adam Pike, dispatched by his Pa to find good land, water and graze for his kin to settle while war rages between the States moves from the prairie to the desert when he finds Santa Fe in turmoil.Continuing the story from Sand Hills Sioux, Santa Fe Bandits introduces Adam to Consuelo, a Spanish widow with secretive interest, lawyer Maxey and his twisted relations in a town ready to blow apart.While doing no more than working to meet his duty, Adam finds rebels aimi...

Burned out of their cabin, his father murdered and every friend they had turning cold backs to the youngster, Essex Dorner fled Ohio for the west vowing to never help another without pay. Bounty hunter, hired gun for men no less brutal than those who killed his Pa, Essex worked across the frontier while all hope for the future withered and his innate goodness shriveled.Hungry and on the run, he knew there was no life for him worth living, no purpose to any that he had done and nothi...

Marshall Adam Pike knew outlaws, killers and families of men he imprisoned might come back for vengence. When Anton Petra did, the last notion Marshall Pike had would be worries that his daughter might be kidnapped.

Owen Foster is with the Special Air Service. He’s been missing for about five weeks and Mariyah Khoudry is trying to find out what happened to him. They’re legally married and she might be pregnant. Sergeant Major Bullen, stuck with the duty, will do his best to locate the lad, whether dead or alive. A short story of romance and adventure.

Emilie Adler, a gifted Hungarian athlete, one of only a handful of Jews who refused to boycott the infamous 1936 Nazi Olympics, wins bronze for Hungary. Eight years later, during the German invasion of Hungary, Adolph Eichmann arrives in Budapest and Emilie is caught up in the Holocaust. Working with Raoul Wallenberg, Sweden's special envoy to Hungary, she survives the war years and continues to live in Hungary. But the 1956 Hungarian Revolt is the last straw for Emilie. Determined to esca...

From the - 2 Promises series - book 2 of 2.The ancient Egyptians worshipped the oldest of Gods leaving a legacy of their relationship with the underworld. In modern times, dangerously rich businessmen plot to unravel this knowledge to rule the world. Beth Martindale is reluctantly drawn into a sinister plot to secure powerful ancient artifacts. This gripping story weaves a plot that moves through ancient Egypt, medieval England, the canals of Amsterdam, and alleys of Cologne effort...

Legend has it that Blackbeard frequented an inn in Beaufort, North Carolina that was called The White House. This story is based on one fateful visit that the town still talks about today. Annie Simpson is a Scottish lass on her way to the colonies as an indentured servant until her ship is attacked by Blackbeard's crew. Israel Hands is Blackbeard's second in command who is questioning his commitment to pirate life. Lizzie Poole is a lonely innkeeper's daughter who longs for a secure home ...

Candle's Christmas Chair is a sweet traditional novella set in late Georgian England.A young Viscount, new to his title, comes to buy an invalid chair for his mother, and finds the woman who has been haunting his dreams for three years. He quickly realises that, whatever causes her to flee his courtship three years ago, it wasn't what he'd been told at the time. Now he has until she finishes the chair for his mother to convince her to marry him.A carriage-maker's daughter, ...

Just as the Great Fire of London took place one year after the Great Plague broke out, in the 14th Century, Germany and Latvia were still burying their dead from the Black Death, or bubonic plague, when they were hit by a strange epidemic--often called Dancing Mania, St. John's Dance, or St. Vitus' Dance--that caused thousands of people to literally "dance" themselves to death. Due to the spasmodic jerkings and twitchings of the "dancers," it was thought at the time that the victims were p...

THE CLASSIC GOTHIC ROMANCE AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME!!This epic, gripping romance-thriller from Thomas Peckett Prest, the creator of Sweeney Todd is available in a beautifully formatted e-book for the very first time.'Zindorff' was wildly popular in the 1850s, outselling works by Dickens and Thackeray, but has now largely been forgotten. All the tropes of the early 'penny dreadful' are here: a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and psycholo...

The Human Novel opens during the Halifax Explosion....Tommy Joyce will never forget what he did in the mud-soaked trenches of Europe’s Great War, or the face of the comrade he betrayed.Halifax was supposed to bring peace in the arms of his wife Evie.Evie, already widowed once, risked her reputation when she became Mrs. Joyce, but her love for Tommy is her second chance at happiness.Their hopes are destroyed when a ship explodes in Halifax Harbour in the wint...