Detective Jack "Mac" McCrae has lost his hero. Without children or any family, the retired detective takes the death of his mentor hard. When the man's son reaches out to Mac with a mysterious letter containing a startling confession, asking for his help, Mac finds he can't say no.He interprets the cryptic letter and begins to search for answers. Who did his hero wrong? And why?Mac's investigation reveals a decades-old case in which a bad man was sent to pr...

Jack "Mac" McCrae is about to retire. Without children or any family, he looks back over his career and his life and finds himself wondering what, if any, impact he's had on this world.Then a young woman reappears with a photograph of her mother — and his old lover — and an unknown child that might be her sister…and his daughter.Mac agrees to accompany her to a small town in Oregon to get to the bottom of this mystery. Who is the little girl in the photograph? Is she his da...

Detective Jack “Mac” McCrae has lost his hero. Without children or any family, the retired detective takes the death of his mentor hard. When the man's son reaches out to Mac with a mysterious letter containing a startling confession, asking for his help, Mac finds he can't say no.He interprets the cryptic letter and begins to search for answers. Who did his hero wrong? And why?Mac's investigation reveals a decades-old case in which a bad man was sent to pr...

Jack “Mac” McCrae is about to retire. Without children or any family, he looks back over his career and his life and finds himself wondering what, if any, impact he’s had on this world.Then a young woman reappears with a photograph of her mother — and his old lover — and an unknown child that might be her sister…and his daughter.Mac agrees to accompany her to a small town in Oregon to get to the bottom of this mystery. Who is the little girl in the photogra...

A legendary hunter. A mythical creature. A volcano ready to erupt.Rourke Hale was the best in the world. Until the job that shattered his life forced him into hiding. He swore he’d never hunt again.But when ARK Genesis Zoo discovers a living phoenix inside Chile’s Láscar volcano, there’s only one man they trust to bring it out alive.The crater is a furnace of ash, molten rock, and toxic gas. The phoenix is faster than any drone, deadlier than any an...

McCrae's Own was the 'Heart of Midlothian Battalion' mentioned all too briefly in Martin Middlebrook's classic book The First Day on the Somme. Raised in Edinburgh shortly after the start of the Great War, it was perhaps the finest unit in Lord Kitchener's volunteer army - a brotherhood of sportsmen, bound together by their extraordinary colonel and their loyalty to a quaintly named Association Football club, the famous Gorgie 'Hearts'. McCrae's were blooded in the Battle of the Somme, los...

Poems for Middle and High School StudentsRead by Connie Dangel and Martin Siemienski