Will worked hard all his life until he had a herd to sell. On the way everything was stolen; lock, stock, and barrel. He couldn't even find the fence posts when he returned home. A grizzled Army sergeant, a red head and her brother, a black horse, and time allowed him to recaptured it all. But, the road was long, bloody, and dangerous to the final confrontation in a town he'd only heard of. Eastern Arizona in the 1880's.

What's a man to do? He's survived the Civil War and worked hard to earn everything he has. Finally, he has found the place he wants to settle down and build a ranch. First he is robbed in his sleep, causing him to chase his money afoot. The he buys a ranch. the seller dies, greed rides in and the fight is one. Oh, wait, there's a woman and kids involved which makes the war over the land harder to win. What more could happen?

The Deacon is in trouble again. He got himself married to his bodyguard who is kidnapped three times as she struggles to set herself up as a private detective. The Deacon comes to her rescue only to kill a man with many kin. Strange men come to town, strange crimes take place, and a strange ending about covers his life for this period of time. How much more could he ask for?

IN DIME'S WORDSWe set out to serve our country and were danged good at it. We retired with our pittance of a check coming in each month. That check wouldn't even pay for our gas to go fishing. Me and Nickel rented ourselves out like a couple of military town young women of the night, only the servicing was with guns and experience. The nickel and dime jobs put us in a position to walk away with millions, and we did. We went fishing. BUT, we ran into even more money in the Dallas/For...

In the latter half of the 1800's, James Reavis found a document granting an area 75 north to south, and 250 miles east to west, including Phoenix Arizona, and Silver City, New Mexico, to a soldier named Peralta. It established a plot of land called the Barony of Arizona. Most of the productive mines and land in these states were involved in the claim. With other documents and some convincing, Reavis established himself and a young orphan girl as the Baron and Baroness of Arizona, laying cl...

My daddy was a phony tent revival preacher that could not keep his hands off the till, women, or the bottle. When daddy was too drunk to stand up one night, he told me to do the preaching for him. A wild night of revelation, a deputy, a murder or two, and I became The Deacon. Oh, and there was a girl. Or, should I say, two?

Arizona, a land of beauty, racial diversity,and politics. Arizona, a land of poverty and great riches. Arizona is out of money. What happens now? The State has told the Federal Government they no long want the Federal dollars. They have taken control of their own destiny under the velvet collar of the U.S. Constitution. The borders are theirs to control, education is theirs to control, and some people don't like the change. What happens now?

Lone Tree is a small town and not much happens there until one day when two men ride up Other Street towing a third horse carrying a dead man tied across the saddle. The men, being in a hurry to get home after a long hunt, leave the burying to a man and his son. What they find on the body leads to a hunt for GOLD, $40,000 in new $20 Gold pieces. Some adventures are more exciting than others, and this was one of those. Join Nick as he chases the rainbow for riches only to kill in defense of...

Number 3 in the new Deacon Series.The Deacon married off one mother, someone has claimed to be his birth mother, a young woman follows him everywhere he goes, and that's just his women problems. He is being shot at, challenged, ambushed, wounded, loses his horse, finds out he is filthy rich, and the mine is in trouble, folks want to be baptized, all hell breaks loose. What can happen now???

Krissy is ready for a wedding and the happily ever after when out of nowhere come outlaws who kill her family in the worst of ways. As she seeks help from her husband-to-be she finds she is a widow before the wedding even begins. What's a girl to do? Vengeance. Throw in a Chinaman, a young orphan, a Marshal, his son, and many miles of travel, and you have a story worth sitting up all night to read before you find out that Krissy has her own ideas of Vengeance.

There once was a Sailor who carried his oar inland until someone asked him, "What is that?" After 20 years at sea, he was home. That would be me. The scent of the trail soon replaced the scent of the sea and due to his adventurous #2 son, the sailor became the hiker and just had to go all the way, 800 miles from Mexico to Utah. Join me on this journey.

Way back in the 1880's, IN HIS STEPS was written by a pastor at a loss for ideas on how to get his congregation interested in the Christian Walk. I read that book at least once a year, it is where the WWJD idea came from. That book is outdated in content due to the 140 years that have passed. It is my intention for this book to follow the same ideals, but up to date. Do you follow the ideals of the Bible in your daily WALK as a Christian? Do you want to know what a Christian Walk should lo...