Hairpin turns, surprising conclusions, and sometimes controversial. A collection of award nominated short stories, taking the reader on journey they will never forget, and a road they will never regret.

Emily Eastman survives a homeroom massacre, but so does the one who tried to kill her. She needs to figure out how to live with the guilt and the flashbacks, but she wants more. She wants to know she lives for a reason, but when her would-be killer escapes, she's too busy trying to survive all over again.

A western version of the classic story of the Prodigal Son. Sammy comes to his senses in a town known for more graves than the living. He hopes to get out of town and survive the wilderness and find a place called home.

Lieutenant Colonel Perrin Shin is not happy.Not happy about the changes he's seen in Edge since he arrived sixteen years ago. Not about his daughter and son turning into teenagers. And certainly not about the Guarders turning the village teens into thieves, or the world not noticing anything but the latest entertainment.Which also means no one’s noticing the ever-tightening control of Chairman Mal and the Administrators.While Perrin and Mahrree notice, as does their...

The Coffee Pot Mining Company is on the way to the California gold fields when a dying man's treasure map sidetracks them. Turns out prospecting for gold is a lot like work. With bits of colour in the pan, the mother-lode must be around there somewhere. A short story in the western tradition.

A lonely old prospector is found dead in his own doorway, shot with his own gun. Lambert had few friends and even less money. Word is, he didn’t have an enemy in the world. Marshall Mike Baxter isn’t buying it—not until he knows a lot more about poor old Lambert. A short story in the classic Western tradition.

These Nevada Boys Series, Book 1A sweet story set in the rural area south of Carson City, Nevada about two young people who have been shaken silly by love. Rancher Pax Walker thought he'd just skate through life without any more romantic entanglements but not so fast… said five year old daughter, Polly. She wanted a mother and decided that her lovely teacher, Miss Reed, would do nicely. Katherine Reed knew from her high school days that Pax Walker was the man of her dreams, but he s...

Computer consultant Sarah Hughes is desperately unhappy. Trapped between the demands of her prominent Baltimore family and a cruel boss, Sarah knows that something has got to give. After a crisis at work that sends her to the hospital -- again -- Sarah searches for an escape hatch. A vacation in rural Nevada strikes her fancy, partially because her mother was from a small town in Nevada, and partially because Sarah is hooked on old Western movies. Everything about the West is fascinating t...

Single, broke and now turned down for her dream job as a nurse, Constance Williams doesn't know what else to do. Introduced to becoming a mail order bride by her sister, Sarah, Constance thinks she's found the answer to her prayers. Little does she know that love, like miracles, can happen in the strangest places.

The Skin of the Gods From the "2 Promises" series, book 2 of 2. The oldest of Gods, evil spirits from the underworld, deceit, mystery and intrigue, blended with dangerously rich businessmen plotting to rule the world. Beth Martindale is drawn into a sinister plot to secure powerful ancient artifacts. This gripping story moves through ancient Egypt, medieval England, and modern times effortlessly. Beth must stop this evil plot by challenging a secret society that has existed for thousands o...

Dr. Thomas Matthews lost his wife to a mysterious illness and now his daughter is showing the same symptoms. He is desperate to find a cure. In an unexpected turn of events, he overhears two outlaws discussing a woman known as the Healing Woman of the Red Rocks. She supposedly has an uncanny ability to heal. Thomas gains the confidence of the outlaws and they give him directions to a place known as the "Red Rocks" in Arizona Territory.Tana Raven Sees makes her home in a valley surr...

Egan, the Story of Two Families. The sons of Dean and Egan and several others with them, do not feel the restrictions of details over action against a lawless leader of a rapacious gang of bad bad people.In this case, chasing these people into a foreign country is not limited by border agreements or political grandstanding. It's only limited by the imaginatioThis is the second volume in the series, Dean and n of the good people who find that right is merely doing the proper things t...