This is the third novel in "The Long Return" series. It is about a story of Captain Jake Cooper and one of his lieutenants named Sam Boyd. The war over, they decide to hire on as gun hands on a wagon train headed for Union, TX. The trip spans a distance of sixteen hundred miles and five states. They start in May 1865 and hope to reach their new homesteads by the end of October 1865. The trip is one challenge after another. The thirty-five wagons struggle with mountains, storms, river cross...

This is the second novel in the "The Long Return" Series. The first novel "Lost Love", is the story of the wagons gathering in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the Civil War and heading for the new lands promised to them in Union City, Texas. The first novel details their travels and adventures across the Appalachian Mountains. Their hardships and their losses are laid bare. Their victories celebrated."The Long Return" Series is a story of a wagon train leaving from Richmond, Virgi...

RETRIBUTIONThis is the second novel in the "The Long Return" Series. The first novel "Lost Love", is the story of the wagons gathering in Richmond, Virginia at the end of the Civil War and heading for the new lands promised to them in Union, Texas. The first novel details their travels and adventures across the Appalachian Mountains. Their hardships and their losses are laid bare. Their victories celebrated."The Long Return" Series is a story about a Confederate Capt. Jake C...

Promises to Keep is my fifth novel and is a story of a young man, John Steele, who almost died with a dreaded disease of his day, Cholera. His wife, Lucy, and son, Beau, both died while he survived.Seeking to find himself, he leaves his home town and moves to an island where he and his father had spent so much time fishing as a young boy. It is here where he begins a new life and finds hope and purpose for his life once again.It is a story full of action, a...

Capt. Jake Cooper returns from the Civil War back home to Stoney Brook, his father's ranch, just outside of Riverdale, Texas. Jake finds his father and brother have been ambushed and killed by men working for a Mexican lord in Mexico. He seeks to revenge their deaths, something that the Texas Rangers had not been able to accomplish. The story is laced with action, adventure, and romance.

LOST LOVE - The first novel in a trilogy about Captain Jake Cooper, a Texan, returning back home from fighting in the Civil War. He and his close friend, Lt. Sam Boyd hook up with a Wagon Train leaving from Richmond, Virginia, heading to Union, Texas. The trip is long and the trials great. Relationships are made and destroyed. This is an exciting adventure story which relives the endurance of the many families that left the East and headed West for the promise of land and a hope for a bett...

LOST LOVE - The first novel in a trilogy about Captain Jake Cooper, a Texan, returning back home from fighting in the Civil War. He and his close friend, Lt. Sam Boyd hook up with a Wagon Train leaving from Richmond, Virginia, heading to Union, Texas. The trip is long and the trials great. Relationships are made and destroyed. This is an exciting adventure story which relives the endurance of the many families that left the East and headed West for the promise of land and a hope for a bett...

This is an action novel which occurs during the late nineteenth century, 1890 to be exact. The time period before our present term Coast Guard came into being. It's a story of a young man who once had been a fireman in a small town known as New Bern, North Carolina.After death takes his wife and only son, decides to relocate to an area he loved to fish with his father at -- Beaufort, North Carolina, a small fishing village bordering on the deep water inlet shared by another growing ...

Life on a barrier island is not always easy as is depicted in this my sixth novel called "January's Storm". The main character is John Steele, although a wealthy business man, lives in a small cabin on the island and is part of the newly formed life-saving service. The time period is 1890 and the service is a precursor to what we now call the Coast Guard.I believe you will find this novel a good read and you will want to turn the next page and the next.

Promises To KeepA story of a young man who loses his family to a dreadful disease and struggles with the Why of their deaths. He seeks to find himself and his purpose in life, void of the ones he loved. He also came to a realization that he needs a change of life in general and decides to live on an island he frequented with his father earlier in his youth. It is a story of action and adventure which takes place on the beautiful Outer Banks of North Carolina. The time period of this...

A story of adventure and action. Wagon trains of the 19th century carried the families and their belongings across the wild and difficult terrain of the United States. Captain Jake Cooper and his lieutenant friend Sam Boyd hire on as gun hands to protect one of these wagon trains. Their journey starts in Richmond, VA in May of 1865 and end up sixteen hundred miles away in a startup town called Union, TX.The journey is not easy and filled with danger from mountainous terrain, raging...

Captain Jake Cooper returns home from Virginia where he spent almost four years fighting as a cavalry officer against the Union army. He learns of his father and brothers cruel death by the hands of cattle rustlers working for a Mexican warlord who has ravaged ranchers all along the Texas border and beyond. A determined Jake takes on what the Texas Rangers could not do - bring to justice the man called El Falco.A novel of action, adventure, and yes, even a little romance. I invite ...