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While investigating a clutch of brutal murders, Simms is dragged into a life-and-death struggle with a bunch of desperadoes, numerous Indians, a gunfighter, and a double-crossing US Marshal by the name of Dixon. This will not be the easiest time of his life, nor the most peaceful. By the end of it, a lot of people will end up dead. All Simms needs to do is make sure he isn't one of them.

Life for Blacks in Southern Indiana in the 1820s could be brutal, but Mary Bateman Clark’s victorious lawsuit helped advance change. This book is a must-listen which looks beyond typical stories about slavery. The book includes genealogical information about numerous African American and White pioneer families in Knox County, Indiana, before 1820.

Action and adventure that begins in the French Foreign Legion and ends on the shore of Houston Bay in Texas. A renegade general hatches a plot to sneak a military attack helicopter across the sea and unleash it on an American city to escalate a war between China and the USA. Carson Gold, a young man just out of the French Foreign Legion, and his new friend Christy Banks learn of the plot, take on massive odds, save countless lives, and discover love along the way.

Chance Powers —a professional illusionist — creates the greatest levitation illusion in history, then faces off against a jealous murderer and her eccentric husband. In this third volume of the Chance Powers adventure series, Chance, his wife Stephanie, and his friend Narvel, must pit their skills as entertainers against an odd man’s fascination with Dracula, historical torture devices, the wiles of a selfish seductress, and a cold-blooded killer.

Left on his own after his family disintegrates, an Appalachian teen stumbles toward adulthood with the odds stacked against him and no real assets. Boone tries to do the right thing, but his anger and insecurity get in the way. He keeps at it, though, learns who he can count on and who he can’t, and finds help in the most unexpected places. Boone is left struggling to come to terms with what just tore his family apart and the guilt he still feels about what happened to his brother Frankie.

Three men ride into the town of Glory and by the look of them, they are not coming to enjoy themselves. After a brief meeting with the local law enforcement, the sheriff lies gunned down. Meanwhile, things are not going too well for Detective Simms. Having found love, only to have it cruelly snatched away from him, his only way of facing the loss is to seek solace from the bottom of a bottle. But soon his skills are called upon again, as he hears of a telegram sent from Glory; a cry for help. Promises will be broken. People will die.

In the fourth book, Boone and Frankie take their first trip away from home, using the map Melvin had given them. From his first low country boil on a Carolina beach to a face-off with three thugs in a Georgia parking lot, from an unforgettable night in New Orleans to the Beale Street acrobats and a sunset Mississippi River cruise in Memphis, Boone is constantly in unknown territory on his first venture away from home with his dog Frankie. Sometimes he feels like Frankie’s in charge of their trip and he’s just following her lead.

Boston, Massachusetts, Autumn 1872. Edwin Morris Jr. barely ekes out a living as a boot cobbler in the tattered repair shop his father left for him. Fleeing an imploded love life and a string of bad luck, he enlists into a life at sea on a trade ship embarking west. Through punishing swells with harsh degenerates, Edwin's fresh start proves to only be the beginning of new troubles.

"Matching Scars" - continuing Boone's story begun in "Pushing Back" On his own and struggling, Boone has a place to stay, but Gamaliel’s son-in-law Jerry wants him out, his daughter isn’t fighting for Boone as hard as she could, and his friends can’t do much to help. Gamaliel’s health worsens, and as Boone sees how far Jerry is willing to go to get rid of him, he realizes he’s not the only one with scars.

After the murder of a U.S. Senator, Pinkerton Detective Simms is tasked with bringing the killer to justice. This would be a simple case for someone as determined and experienced as Simms, but shadowing him is someone far more dangerous and deadly than mere hired murderers. Across the unforgiving Territories comes a spectre of death, and once again Simms finds himself in a struggle for survival against an old enemy who will stop at nothing to achieve his goal: The death of Detective Simms.

Will Robinson is tasked with the responsibility of rescuing several Mormon families from mobsters. Rachel Ramsey, the talented singer/actress daughter of an English lord, must choose between someone of her own nobility class and the tall, ruggedly handsome Will Robinson, a Mormon frontiersman.

In the autumn of 1901, our protagonist, Percy Hope, ventures off to New York City’s Lower East Side in search for his six-month-old son Walter, and his mother, the fugitive Peggy Greenburg. Along the way, Percy stumbles upon a journal left behind by the late Magnus Vega chronicling his adventure into Alaska’s wilderness, along with a cryptic map that sends Percy and his friend Liam upon a quest, where they must track down a lost fortune of gold, outmaneuver gangsters, and decipher the mysteries of what happened to Magnus under North America’s tallest peak—Denali mountain.

Because Thomas Bishop was born to a slave mother, he is condemned to a life of slavery even though he has a White father out there somewhere he has never met. But he has a dream - an impossible one. His dream to one day be free and prosperous enough to offer a secure future to the woman he loves seems unlikely.

It’s 1858. The Kansas-Missouri border seethes with racial hatred between antislavery and proslavery factions. Amid this unrest, Mia arrives in Kansas Territory from Indian Territory to visit her grandparents at the Shawnee Friends Mission. The pleasant trip she has planned turns into a terrifying ordeal as she finds herself in the clutches of slave traders. Coming from a Quaker upbringing, her antislavery convictions are tested when she escapes slavery and certain death through the quick wit and sharpshooting of David Taylor - a slave owner.

An attempt is made on a young agent's life, a mission goes wrong, a drug lord is eliminated, and a man is forced to fight his way across a thousand miles to get back to his fiancée. The story centers around Carson Gold, a young man recently out of the French Foreign Legion, and Christy Banks, his girlfriend who works in the same agency that employs him.

While listening to the novel Just Away, you will be totally captivated while following the 95-year life of a successful industrialist as he experiences all that life has to offer. Sharing in his exuberant highs, down to his life altering lows, you will become fascinated with how he embraces each situation as he continues to assemble his empire.

A peaceful mountain getaway turns deadly as John and Sara Todd hike in the high desert of Central Oregon during the spotted owl and War on Drugs controversies of the 1990s. Stumbling upon a deserted shack, the Todds find a wallet stuffed with hundred-dollar bills. In their attempt to return the money, they unwittingly stumble into a web of missing persons, illicit drugs, and murder. John’s military police training and Sara’s love of mysteries keep them one step ahead of Sergeant Hansen and the FBI, but make them targets of a drug cartel.

Paperback mystery/adventure novelist Jonathan Tyler Springer is starting to settle into his new life and writing habits on the island of Key West when the opportunity to do a short trip to Mexico knocks on his door. Invited by the local seaplane pilot to tag along on a charter flight, Jon must decide between only writing about adventure, or actually living it.

On February 17, 1909, in the dark heart of winter, the great Apache leader, Geronimo, dies of pneumonia after 23 years as a prisoner of war of the United States. Days later, a highly decorated young Marine corporal named Frank Kidd learns of Geronimo’s death. Kidd’s real name is Chaco, and he is Geronimo’s nephew. Orphaned at birth, Chaco was toughened by the cruelties of the white man’s Indian school, battle-hardened by guerrilla warfare, and severely wounded in the 1906 Cuban Pacification Campaign.

For as far back as young Jimmy Sawyer could remember, he heard stories about buried treasure on Sawyer Key. Living in Key West in the 1950s and being a commercial fisherman, he was on the water almost every day, often just a stone's throw away from Sawyer Key. It turns out that there were others interested in the rumored treasure, including Jimmy's father, Willie, and Willie's best friend, Johnny Albury. When Johnny turns up dead, things turn ugly as the hunt becomes a much more dangerous affair.