A scorched earth. A stolen future. To save innocent lives, Nick Drake must walk straight into the fire.The searing summer heat has turned the High Lonesome into a tinderbox. When a desperate Native American mother begs wildlife ranger Nick Drake to find her missing six-year-old twins, Nick plunges into the backcountry on a frantic search. But the wilderness is no longer just unyielding—it’s on fire.A ruthless pyromaniac is tearing through the territory, wea...

New Badge. Old Blood. In the High Lonesome where secrets kill, the only thing shorter than a rookie Sheriff's term is his life expectancy.Nick Drake has traded his wildlife ranger uniform for a Sheriff’s star—but the unforgiving territory doesn't offer election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a brutal double homicide meticulously staged to look like a tragic murder-suicide. It’s a convenient lie designed to keep the peace, but Nick isn’t buying it.As ...

Winner of the Selena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award. Includes "Gallopers," which was awarded the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction.Meet the men and women who dwell on the far side of the California Dream: a war vet who rustles cactus near Palm Springs, a teenager living in the shadow of Disneyland about to be pulled into the draft, a Hollywood actress on the run from a violent past, a North Coast fisherman whose marriage founders when his son is lost at sea. Spare b...

Sorrowful and funny tales of longing from the winner of the Arts & Letters Prize for Fiction. Adroit, wistful, and nuanced says Kirkus Reviews. Brims with humanity and humor.Moving from the heartbreaking to the humorous and back again, Dwight Holing takes readers on a provocative journey where people must reconcile desire and reality. These stories travel terrains both exotic and familiar -- from the beautiful savagery of Africa where a couple must contend ...

A treacherous river canyon ruled by an ancient predator. A snowbound lodge turned into a psychological trap. The High Lonesome has never been more lethal.Nick Drake is already drowning at home, struggling to anchor his frayed marriage and care for his traumatized adopted son. The wildlife refuges he patrols usually offer a sanctuary—until a demanding new supervisor forces him into uncharted territory. Ordered to guide her down a wild, unmapped river canyon, Nick is...

For Vietnam veteran turned wildlife ranger Nick Drake, the war at home proves just as deadly.Harney County, Oregon, 1968: Nick Drake has a chest full of medals and enough demons to fill a duffle bag. He's been trained to kill, but never retrained to rejoin society. Drake flees to the lonesome high desert in search of redemption and takes a job patrolling wildlife refuges where the only conflicts are keeping out stray cows and ticketing poachers. But then he stumble...

Nature and noir combine in a spellbinding new stand-alone murder mystery by Dwight Holing, author of the bestselling Nick Drake series.An Indigenous girl from the Amazon named Blue Macaw mysteriously disappears after oil drillers invade her ancestral homeland. When her brother is accused of murdering a company executive, a no-holds-barred activist persuades Jess Parks to use his search and rescue skills to find Blue Macaw and catch the real killer.The chase...

Coastal Alert explains how citizens can protect coastal resources from the damaging effects of offshore oil drilling.

A murder. A land grab. A won’t see it coming ending. The explosive return of Nick Drake.Wildlife Ranger Nick Drake and Sheriff Pudge Warbler join forces to solve a grisly murder. Their investigation thrusts them into the middle of a vicious battle between ranchers and developers over a beautiful valley.When they close in on the killer, everything the lawmen hold dear is threatened and forces a reckoning. Will they honor their oaths to follow the letter of t...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

A returning World War II veteran adjusts to life in the corporate world in this classic novel that inspired the award-winning Gregory Peck film."One of the most influential American novels of the 1950s." —David Halberstam"Exact in its account of the pressures, problems, and tribal customs of the men in gray flannel suits. . . . Wilson is an observer, a sympathetic one. . . . He has written an entertaining social comedy." — ...

BP - Where did it all go wrong? is a quick-read business biography; it is a history and current breakdown of British Petroleum. The book introduces the reader to BP, how the company was formed, the chequered past it has, and discusses the recent disaster of one of the biggest oil spills in history. The book is skillfully written by Paul Andrews, who interprets many of the more advanced technological points, and explains them to the reader in more readable, plain English. The book asks - an...