Casting off the trappings of Boston society, Georgina Crownshield flees a feckless husband and domineering mother-in-law. In the small town of Cheyenne Springs, Wyoming, she hopes to start a new life as Georgie Steadman. But it is not to be. Hounded by a Pinkerton detective, she must face her past. With an irrepressible spirit and considerable charm, Georgie overcomes all obstacles and finds true love for herself and others. Told with gentle humor, "Georgie" is an easy read and leaves one ...

Unlucky in love, Wyoming rancher's son, Ben Lattimore, heads east to college. While looking for lodging, he is drawn to a filigreed, brownstone on Chestnut Street. What secret does this mysterious house hold? Will he find romance at last? Like the other stories in the Cheyenne Springs series, this novelette has a satisfying, surprise ending.

Western novellette romance with the emphasis on human ineraction rather than gunplay. The story has readers guessing about the relationship between the two main characters which is resolved in a surprise ending.

Western adventure and romance. A young Irishman inherits a gold mine in Wyoming and almost looses his fortune to a con man. But during the surprise ending truth and love triumph!

Fleeing Babylon (first published in 1998) has been thoroughly revised, updated and enlarged. Ironically, life in San Francisco today in many ways mirrors that of the boom town of 1850, filled with thieves, arsonists, looters and corrupt politicians. The novel continues the adventures of Deirdre O'Connor and Josh Logan begun in the best-selling novel One Against the Wilderness (first published in 1996 and re-issued in 2010). In the spring of 1850, Deirdre and Josh's marria...

A Western Christmas Carol is an old-fashioned Western, set in 1890's Wyoming at Christmas time. The plot follows rancher and widower David Clarke's quest to win a new wife. He sets his sights on the beautiful young widow, Lucy Devlin, but is thwarted by her brother-in-law, Eddie Devlin, and his henchmen Big Bill and Little Red. Other suitors have been driven off. Will David also give up?From the saloon girl with a heart of gold to the rotund, bumbling sheriff, to the crotchety old ...

Convicted of murder, jail-bound Hetty Taylor escapes her captors during a violent storm. Roused from sleep, widowed rancher, Gerry Archer, finds her lying on his doorstep drenched and unconscious. Unaware of Hetty's past, Gerry takes her in, believing she is an answer to his prayers for a new wife. His hopes are dashed when Hetty is again apprehended and charged with a second murder. Nevertheless, Gerry stands by her, aided by the temperance women of Tetonville and Cheyenne Springs. "Convi...

Robbie Lattimore is reveling in the free and easy life of a horse trader when his parents demand that he marry and settle down to ranching. While driving thirty mustangs to Fort Russell, Robbie is thrown from his saddle and hits the ground hard. Regaining consciousness, he sees the hazy outline of a white-clad woman with feathers in her hair attending him. The vision vanishes, leaving Robbie obsessed with finding his ministering "angel." Told with humor and flare, "Arapaho Angel" is a well...

Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to indifference, to support—reflected their considered application of the principles of the Reformed T...