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Thirty-two years prior, Chase financed his ranch by fighting in illegal, bare knuckles prize fights across the country. After many fights, his final fight against a top fighter named Rooker gives him enough money to buy a ranch in Wyoming. When Chase beats Rooker, trouble is guaranteed when the fight promotor and his daughter Bond, lose their bankroll and want it back. Promotor, Bond and two henchmen hold up Chase and gunpoint after the fight and take a bag they believe has Chase’s prize money. It doesn’t and they make off with Chase’s dirty underwear instead. Thirty-two- years later,...

Jack is a little boy with a big secret. He’s a true telekinetic. Guarded by the US Secret Service round the clock, Jack lives alone with his mother Jennifer in a secret location known only to a few. So it was thought. A leak puts Jack and Jennifer, in grave danger, and aided by Secret Service Agent Ryan Dunn, they are forced to flee and go into hiding. With unknown killers stalking their every move, Dunn is willing to risk his life to save Jack and his mother, but Jack has other ideas. This is a page turner with an ending that will shock you and leave you breathless.

John Tibbets is not just another homeless man living in New York's Bowery. He also suffers from advanced amnesia and has no idea how he arrived at the most famous mission in America. A recluse, he lives a quiet life of desperate isolation. While wandering the Bowery streets one summer night, Tibbets comes upon three men mugging a police officer. Acting on unknown instincts, Tibbets intervenes.

The Youngblood brothers, Jack and Emmet, are called back into service by Judge Isaac Parker in an all new historical western adventure. Sally Chisum, niece of the late John Chisum of New Mexico, sells one thousand head of cattle to the Indian reservation in Fort Smith. Nine drovers off the reservation agree to drive the herd from New Mexico to Arkansas. At the midpoint, just south of the Red River, the nine drovers are attacked and killed and the herd is stolen. Judge Parker assigns Marshal Jack Youngblood and his brother, Emmet, the daunting task of tracking down the men responsible for ...

Tales of the West: A Western Anthology is a collection of six western short storied filled with action and adventure, including Little Dodge, The Bounty Hunter, The Driver, The Stable Boy, The Orphan and The Road to Laramie.

John Bekker and Rollie Finch have a great deal in common. Both men are retired police detectives. Both supplement their pensions by working as private detectives. Rollie in New York City. Bekke some six hundred miles to the south. One more thing they had in common is they had no idea the other existed. Until each received a letter from an attorney named Ronald Empire in Portland, Maine. A long-lost cousin named Ollie Finch, a professional con man and grifter was murdered on the street in Portland. Rollie hadn’t see his cousin in thirty years. Bekker had never see him at all. Bekker and ...

The first two novels in The Apostle series in one book. Rourke is a gifted investigator. He is also a gifted killer, having worked for his Irish Mafia brother as a street enforcer. After his brother is arrested, Rourke goes down with him and spends four years in prison before he is given a second chance at life as a free man. Recruited by the Justice Department to act as an investigator, Rourke’s freedom depends upon his willingness to investigate crimes for the Federal Prosecutor. In exchange for his talents, Rourke is allowed to keep his Central Park West condo and whatever money he had...

Jarron Rourke, The Apostle, returns in another mystery/thriller titled Lockbox. One time a member of the Irish Mafia, Rourke was pardoned from prison and recruited by Federal Prosecutor Benning to become his investigator, Paired with Detective Jane Diaz, Rourke is tasked with finding the murderer of members of the Kruger family. Arthur Kruger, billionaire real estate developer, passed away at the age of 103 in a nursing home. At the reading of his will, in addition to the many millions he left family members, he bequeath his most prized possession to his five children, a locked box. A ...

Michael and Michele Dunn, twelve-year-old twins, are wealthy orphans living with their socialite businesswoman aunt, Angela Dunn, in Chicago. Angela is too committed to running the family business to raise the twins and she makes arrangements with the Illinois Detective Agency to send them to California to live with distant relatives. The detective agency is run by the son of its founder, Frank Miller. He contracts to take the twins to California and they leave with a team of his men. On the journey, the twins overhear a plot by Miller to kidnap them and hold them for a very high ransom ...

Likeable but deadly outlaw Jack Posey is serving a long stretch of hard labor at Yuma Prison in Arizona when his fortunes turn for the better when his older brother Dale pays him a visit. Dale is a United States Marshal and his visit isn’t sociable. Dale is there to offer Jack a deal approved by the governor. Jack s old gang now led by Jack’s former number two man Tom Spooner has become the most wanted outlaws in the west. Dale is authorized by the governor to offer Jack a full pardon in exchange for helping to bring Spooner and the gang to justice.

OB delves into the world of the out of body experience known as astral projection, the minds ability to project itself outside the body. Disabled police veteran John Connor lives a quiet life of isolation from his wheelchair in rural Maine. When bizarre dreams begin to haunt Connor, he seeks the aid of a dreams expert who recognizes them as the gift of astral projection. Together, the dreams expert and Connor cultivate Connor’s gift of OB and take his powers deep into the world of the paranormal. Only then does Connor realize why the gift of OB has surfaced at that time. A brutal serial ...

Emmet Lang is a very unique type of outlaw. A veteran of the Civil War, he returned home to find his family murdered and the family farm destroyed. Bitter and disillusioned, he wandered the south and west and struck upon an ideal way to make a living, to steal from criminals.

In 1926 Indiana, when newspaper reporter James Chase receives a telegram informing him his estranged father passed away in Los Angeles, James is surprised to receive a personal invitation to the funeral. In his forty-five years, James has no memory of his father, John Chase and no idea why he was invited to the funeral. However, out of respect and curiosity, James flies to Los Angeles to attend the funeral. James is met by a Hollywood reporter who takes him to his father’s farm house and orange groves in the countryside in Orange County. His father’s butler, a black man named Cyrus, ...

John Tibbets, the homeless antihero from Walking Homeless, returns with a vengeance. Still plagued with amnesia, Tibbets awakens in the desert canyons of New Mexico after killing a half dozen drug lords and several FBI agents for reasons he can’t remember. Without memory to guide him, his instincts and training kick in and he goes into hiding, once again faced with the dilemma of uncovering his identity. Meanwhile, the violence in New Mexico draws FBI Special Agent Richard Cone and Ben Freeman, Tibbets’ former partner and member of a government black-ops agency that officially doesn’t...

Lee Gavin and his band of ne’er-do-wells return with a new caper in Dodos. When the egg of the extinct Dodo bird is uncovered on a remote island the scientific word goes mad for the discovery. So mad in fact that two competing teams of scientists claim the prize as their own. Enter Gavin and his faithful band of thieves when one group of scientists hires him to steal the egg from the other. It’s a simple job, right? Not in the world of Lee Gavin where nothing ever goes according to plan.

Federal Warrant Office John Dixon, known simply as Dix, is one dangerous man. When he leaves Washington with a stack of warrants, one thing is certain. You will either return in irons, or draped over the saddle. A loner at heart, Dix’s plans and life changes dramatically when he meets and falls in love with a local saloon girl named Trixie. After they marry, Dix plans to work one more year to earn enough money to buy land and start a ranch. Their plans fall apart when an old friend of Trixie’s, a fellow saloon girl plots to rob them at the home they share with Dix’s friend, a federal ...

In Walking Homeless: The Final Chapter, amnesia victim John Tibbets is living in Canada, far and away from his past troubles. When he meets a woman and they decide to return to America, his past comes back to haunt him and once again, Tibbets finds himself being chased by a secret government organization that will stop at nothing to apprehend him.

Former US Marine, part-time investigator and full-time tough guy Kellerman returns to action in Shades of Gotham. A serial killer is loose in New York and his targets are middle-aged women. Recruited by the lawyer responsible for the killer’s freedom, Kellerman’s task appears simple. Find the killer and execute him. Except things aren’t as simple as they appear. The killer is younger, faster and even more powerful than Kellerman himself and will stop at nothing to continue his murderous spree. And this deadly game can only end one way.

Beyond The Big Woods continues the saga of the Boyd family from the years 1874 through 1877. As the country grows, so does the Boyd family as they face new challenges with each passing year.

Cillian Goodknight is a man blessed with many talents. A Yale and Harvard graduate with a degree in law, he has intellect and education. One of five children to inherit the Goodknight Oil Company, he is blessed with wealth. He has charm and a flair for words and wit. He seemingly has it all, except for one major flaw. What Goodknight doesn’t have is height. He stands just four-foot-four-inches tall, well below the minimum height for military service when World War Two broke out. However, his education qualified him for Army Intelligence and he spent the war years in Europe, gathering ...